Arbitrator Listing for 30th Vis Moot

Ms Sanna Kaistinen

I am the Head of Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution at a Finnish boutique law firm Wiidare Ltd. Previously in 2021-2024 I was the Secretary General of the Finland Arbitration Institute (FAI) and was responsible for the revision of the FAI Rules entering into force on 1 January 2024. I am a former mootie from the 19th Vis Moot and have since coached teams in Helsinki and London.

Ms Anna Kalabska

Legal Counsel at Bolt (Tallinn, Estonia).
Education: Master of Law (2020, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv); Bachelor of Law (2018, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv).
Member of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv team in the 25th and 26th Vis Moot .

Mr Mikhail Kalinin

Mikhail Kalinin is an associate in King & Spalding’s London office and a member of the firm's International Arbitration practice group. He focuses on investment treaty and international commercial arbitration, as well as complex cross-border disputes and enforcement proceedings.

Mikhail holds an LLM degree awarded with First Class honours by the University of Cambridge, where he acted as a Board Member of the Cambridge Arbitration Society and an editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal.

He graduated with honours from the law faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. As a student, he participated in the Vis Moot in 2014-2016 and then coached Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2016-2020, including when the team advanced to the semi-finals in Vienna.

Mr Surinder Kumar Kalra

I am a Chartered Accountant by profesion, with an experience of 41 years. I am an International Commercial Arbitrator & Mediator, Forensic Auditor and Valuator, for Financial, Infrastructure, Concession Agreements, Agency & Dealership, LIBOR, Patent&TM Infringements, Industry 4.0: Data Analytics, Block Chain, Smart Contracts, IoT, AI, Forensic, Valuation , UN SDGs, Stock Markets, Commodity markets, disputes.
Expertise: Arbitration & Mediation: I have expertise in complex commercial and investment disputes in both common law and civil law systems under the UNCITRAL, NY Convention, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (“ICSID“) Rules, DIS Rules, FIDIC Rules, Singapore Convention. I have handled more than 2,000 domestic and international assignments.
Expertise: Others: Forensic Accounting, Smart Contracts, NFTs and Block Chain.


Languages known: Hindi, Englisgh, French.
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Ms Rokaya Kamel

Rokaya is Junior Associate, she also acted as EMEA Regional Representative of the Moot Alumni Association and she participated in various International and National Arbitration Moot courts with different roles.

Mr Dhruv Jose Kannanthanam

Dhruv is an LL.M. candidate for the International Commercial Arbitration Law (ICAL) programme at Stockholm University. He has over 7 years of experience in the practice of arbitration. He has been involved in commercial and construction disputes in India. Apart from playing an assistive role in a dispute resolution team, he has acted as counsel and advisor for private and public sector entities and has represented them before arbitral tribunals and courts. He has also served as an in-house counsel for one of India's emerging construction and infrastructure companies. He was also a visiting lecturer teaching commercial, civil, and contract law.

Mr Mark Kantor

Mark Kantor is a retired partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (now Milbank LLC), an international arbitrator in investment and commercial disputes, Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Transnational Dispute Management. He was a member of the World Bank Group Sanctions Board (term ended Fall 2021). He is a former member of the American Arbitration Association Board of Directors and the Council of the American Arbitration Association, and former Chair of the DC Bar International Investment Committee and the DC Bar International Dispute Resolution Committee. He has authored numerous works, including Reports of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations (eds. Mark Kantor, Michael D. Nolan and Karl P. Sauvant), Valuation for Arbitration: Compensation Standards, Valuation Methods and Expert Evidence (OGEMID Best Book 2008) and “A Code of Conduct for Party-Appointed Experts in International Arbitration – Can One be Found?” 26 Arbitration International 323 (2010) (OGEMID Best International Dispute Resolution Article 2010).

Mr Franz Kaps

I participated in the Vis-Moot, I have supported the team of Heidelberg and I also acted in many Pre-Moots already as arbitrator. At DLA we (team Daniel H. Sharma) focus exclusively on arbitration proceedings.
PhD
Doctoral thesis “Arbitration in Singapore and India” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Hess

Employment

2020–present Associate DLA Piper (Dr. Sharma)

2020 Research associate White & Case (Dr. Burianski)

2018–2019 Research associate Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

2017–2018 Research associate Herbert Smith Freehills (Dr. Nacimiento)

2013–2017 Research fellow Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (during dissertation)

2009–2012 Student assistant Institute for comparative law, conflict of laws, Heidelberg


Studies/ Legal clerkship (Referendariat)

2006–2008 Student Faculty of Law at Heidelberg University/ Germany

2008–2009 Exchange student Faculty of Law at University of Delhi/ India

2009–2012 Student Faculty of Law at Heidelberg University/ Germany

2010–2011 Participation Willem C. Vis Moot Court (International Arbitration)

2010–2012 Scholarship holder Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation

2012 First state exam, graduation with honours

2018 Diploma German & International Arbitration at University Frankfurt

2017–2019 Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt a.M./ Germany, second state exam

2019 Legal internship (Wahlstation) at the law firm Gibbons P.C. New York City/ USA (3 month)
First state exam, graduation with honours

Best individual oralist (Domke Award) “Honourable Mention” Willem C. Vis Moot Court 2010

Best individual oralist Mannheimer Swartling Willem C. Vis Premoot in Stockholm

4th place 2005 “youth debates Germany”

Ms Beril Kaptan

Beril Kaptan is a Turkish qualified lawyer with experience of 4 years. She graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2017 and was admitted to Istanbul Bar Association after finishing her legal internship in 2018. She worked at Altay Law Office for 3 years, mainly in the areas of litigation and corporate, M&A. She is currently pursuing her master´s degree in International Dispute Resolution at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is also working as a legal intern at Bodenheimer Berlin.

Ms Lilit Karapetyan

Lilit Karapetyan is a junior partner at Concern Dialog law firm, Armenia and acts as the Chairperson of the ADR Commission at National Committee of International Chamber of Commerce in Armenia. Further she acts as a teaching assistant to Alternative Dispute Resolution at French University of Armenia. Lilit has authored a number of publications in She has been with the firm since 2017. Prior to joining Concern Dialog, Lilit has worked with the Financial System's Mediator's office in Armenia (2013-14) and acted as Associate Editor for Exeter Student Law Review (2015-16).

Lilit has graduated from Exeter University with LLM in International Commercial law (with distinction) and Yerevan State University with LLB in Jurisprudence.

Ms Tatevik Karapetyan

Tatevik S. Karapetyan, PhD is the Director of ResolveAcademy and arbitrator in international commercial and construction arbitration. She is the Deputy Chair of ADR Commission of ICC NA and independent arbitrator at Arbitrator at Arbitration Court of Arbitration LLC. She is a member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators CiARB.
She is particularly experienced in handling both institutional and ad hoc arbitrations (under ICSID, ICC, LCIA, SCC, Swiss Rules, UNCITRAL rules) seated in civil law jurisdictions and her industry focus are Banking and Finance, International Intellectual Property, International Trade Law, International Sport Law.
Tatevik Karapetyan is a member of the Board of Advisors at VISards and teaches Legal English course at Eurasia International University.

Mr Salih Kartal

Salih Kartal, MCIArb is a Turkish qualified attorney-at-law working in Çakmak Attorney Partnership in Istanbul. He primarily focuses on M&A projects, corporate law matters and commercial disputes. He is experienced in international commercial arbitration and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb). He graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 2018 and is currently pursuing a Private International Law LLM in Istanbul University.

He participated in 24th and 25th Vis Moots as a team member and received Honourable Mention for the Martin Domke Award for Best Individual Oralists. Currently, he is the Vis Moot team of the Istanbul University.

Mr Cyrill Käser

My name is Cyrill Käser and I live in Zurich, Switzerland. I worked several years in major business law firms in Zurich and London. In 2023, I opened my own law firm in Zurich.

I represent private individuals and corporations before Swiss courts, criminal prosecution and administrative authorities, as well as arbitral tribunals. My practice focuses on commercial disputes, enforcement or asset recovery proceedings and white-collar matters. I also gained extensive arbitration experience while working for a major law firm in London.

Ms Natalia Kashina

Natalia Kashina is lawyer at Servercore team, on a daily basis working with CIS, Kenyan and European contract and corporate law.

CAREER
TeDo (ex PwC Russia) 2022- 2023
Associate, Borenius Russia, St. Petersburg, 2016 – 2022
Legal Consultant, KPMG, St. Petersburg, 2016
Lawyer, JSC Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, 2013–2014

Languages:
Russian (native),
English (fluent),
Slovenian (beginner)
German (beginner)

Ms Evanthia Kasiora

Evanthia Kasiora is an Associate in the International Arbitration Practice of White & Case in Paris. She works in commercial and investment arbitration, with an emphasis on the energy and construction sectors. Evanthia is qualified in Greece and registered as an EU lawyer in France. She holds an LLM in International Business Law from the London School of Economics. She participated at the 25th Vis Moot with the team from the London School of Economics and has been active in the Vis Moot since then. Evanthia is the Vice President of the Moot Alumni Association.

Mrs Ilma Kasumagic

Ilma Kasumagić works as an independant attorney at law in cooperation with Wolf Theiss Sarajevo and she is a member of Wolf Theiss Competence Centre for Arbitration which consists of experts across 13 offices in CEE/SEE region acting as counsels in domestic and international arbitration proceedings. Her main practice areas are dispute resolution, corporate matters and MA transactions. Ilma is also engaged as a teaching assistant at the University of Zenica on civil law department for courses Commercial Law and Corporate Law. In cooperation with Civil Law Development Program of US Department of Commence she coordinated the implementation of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot project in Bosnia and Herzegovina as of 2010.

Mr Rostislav Kats

Rostislav specialises in dispute resolution before state courts and arbitral tribunals under ICC, SCC, HKIAC, ICAC Russia, RAC Rules and ad hoc arbitrations, in particular in relation to (construction) contracts, supply of goods and services, loan agreements, corporate agreements. Rostislav has extensive experience working for top boutique law firms listed in international and internal rankings. In addition to his dispute resolution practice, he has worked on various construction contracts with a value in excess of €1 billion, has considerable experience in cross-border supply contracts and has worked on sanctions-related issues.

He holds an LLM in International and European Law (specialising in investment and commercial arbitration) from the University of Amsterdam and a bachelor's and master's degree from Perm State University. Rostislav is a member of the Dutch Arbitration Association (DAA) and the Young ICCA. He is fluent in Russian, English and French and speaks basic Dutch.

Of course, Rostislav is a mootie, having represented his university at the 23rd Vis Moot. For the last 4 years, he has contributed to the competition as an arbitrator, as well as helping to coach and train mooties from various countries.

Find out more at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rostislav-kats/

Mr Emmanuel Eugenio Kaufman

Emmanuel Kaufman is Counsel at Wolf Theiss. He is a member of the Disputes and Construction teams and specialises in international commercial and investment arbitration as well as construction disputes. He has gained considerable experience working under the major arbitration rules, including the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and Vienna Rules. Emmanuel focusses on disputes in the CEE/SEE region and on disputes involving, in particular, Spanish and South American parties. Before re-joining Wolf Theiss, where he started his career as Associate and Senior Associate, Emmanuel spent several years as partner in a disputes boutique. He also gained experience at a well-known law firm in Argentina and as legal counsel at the National Senate Chamber of Argentina. Emmanuel was ICC YAF Representative for Europe and Russia (2019-2021), and is currently board member and former President of the Austrian-German Section of the Spanish Club of Arbitration.

Mr Artūrs Kazāks

Associate at Sorainen, the leading and largest regional law firm in the Baltics. Part of the firm's Dispute resolution and risk management team in Riga, Latvia.
Specializes in cross-border trade matters, international and domestic arbitration, international investment disputes and litigation.

Fulbright Alumni. Acquired an LLM in International Commercial Arbitration at Pepperdine University School of Law Straus Institute for Dispute resolution in California, and bachelor's and master's degrees in law at the University of Latvia, in Riga, Latvia.

Lecturer at the University of Latvia teaching a course on private international law and conflict norms. Former Vis moot participant and present coach of the University of Latvia Vis moot team.

Ms Ramona Keist

Ramona Keist is an Associate at Homburger, a leading law firm in Switzerland. Her practice focuses on domestic and international arbitration and litigation.

Ms Paria Keramatkhah

I am currently working at APP Law firm in association with Dentons Europe LLP and I have also worked as summer intern at Wenger and Vieli Law firm ( Zurich Office). I am really interested in International Commercial Arbitration and it would be my pleasure to be as an arbitrator this year. I also have experience of being a Vis Moot participant.

MR Thilo Kerkhoff

Ms Meri Khachatryan

Meri Khachatryan is a second year PhD student at the Chamber of Civil Procedure in Yerevan State University and was a member of the team representing Armenia at the 26th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot court competition. She earned her bachelor degree in law in 2019 and master degree in 2021 in Yerevan State University. Meri is an Advocate at Chamber of Advocates of RA. Meri worked at the Office of Financial System Mediator as a Case investigating mediator. Currently, she is working at Leader & Co Law Firm as a Senior Associate. Meri is also Lecturer at Yerevan State University and European State University. She studied summer law schools in Geneva and Vienna on ADR topics. Meri has considerable experience in moot courts and was an arbitrator in national moot court competitions. She is coaching the team of Yerevan State University for this year's Vis Moot competition.

Ms Diba Khaeez

I am a final-year LLM student studying European and International Business Law at the University of Vienna. I completed my Bachelor's degree in Law at Shahid Beheshti University in Iran, and I am now working as a junior counsel at an arbitration law firm in Vienna. At the age of 24, I am also in the midst of writing my thesis.

Ms Rusul Khaleel

Born and raised amidst the rich literary heritage of Baghdad, I hold a bachelor’s degree in law from Al-Iraqia University. My passion for law was nurtured in the university’s library, where I immersed myself in legal studies.

I am a native Arabic speaker and fluent in English. Over the past seven years, I have actively participated in the William C. Vis Moot International Competition for International Commercial Arbitration. My involvement includes three years as a student participant, one year as a leading member and coach of Al-Iraqia University’s arbitration team, and one year as an advisor to the team. During this time, I applied my extensive knowledge to resolve complex international trade disputes through arbitration, culminating in my role as an arbitrator in the second National Commercial Arbitration Competition in Iraq. In 2023, I also served as an arbitrator in the Vienna competition.

Pursuing my dream, I currently work as an associate at Eversheds Sutherland, a leading international law firm. In this role, I am responsible for handling matters related to international companies, further expanding my legal expertise and deepening my passion for resolving national and international trade issues.

Mr Muhammad Hasnain Khan

Engr. M. Hasnain Khan Adv. is an Engineer and a practicing lawyer. He is also an International Accredited Arbitrator, Mediator, Negotiator and Conflict Manager with CMC, SIMI & IMI, and the ADR ODR International and Member of CIArb UK, Prime Dispute USA, Society of Construction Law & AIADR. He is also a Law Teacher having a Masters in History and Political Science. He is currently serving as Managing Partner of 92 Lex and CEO of ADR Institute.

Ms NARANBULAG (Nara) KHUKHUU

Naranbulag (Nara) Khukhuu is a Partner in Anderson & Anderson LLP boutique international law firm (Mongolia office).

Nara is an International Chamber of Commerce Young Arbitrator Forum (ICC YAF) Regional Representative for North Asia and sits as an Arbitrator on the Panel of Mongolian International Arbitration Centre, Mongolian Chamber of Commerce.

Apart from practicing international arbitration acting as both arbitrator and counsel, Nara has experience in a range of corporate and commercial matters with focus on foreign investment, mine, energy, infrastructure and banking and finance sectors.

Nara is a Young Lawyer Grantee 2017 of International Bar Association (Sydney, Australia) and Young Lawyer Scholar 2022 of Inter-Pacific Bar Association (Tokyo, Japan). She is a member of International Bar Association, Inter-Pacific Bar Association and Mongolian Bar Association.

Nara earned an LLM degree from University of Illinois at Chicago, USA as a Fulbright scholar and LLM degree from Queen Mary University of London, UK as a Chevening scholar after completing her BA(Hons) and LLB degrees at University of Delhi, India as a ICCR scholar and National University of Mongolia respectively.

Ms Hanie Kiaee

I graduated as the first E-commerce law student in Iran since then have been practicing as a legal advisor. Besides, I believes that ADR is a strong pillar to justice and a bridge to modern law. To achieve my goals, I attended some international courses and sit as an arbitrator in four panels on the 26th Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, following, appointed as a WIPO neutral. I am determined to spread the word of justice by the use of ADR.

Ms Norah Kibaka-Vibila

Ms. Kibaka-Vibila is currently a doctoral candidate in the field of Anti-Discrimination Law at Saarland University, Germany. She completed her Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in International Relations at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, before earning her Master of Laws (LL.M) in European and International Law at the Saarland University. Her specialisation are in the areas of international law, european and international protection of human rights and international dispute resolution. Ms. Kibaka-Vibila has a great deal of moot experience. She participated in the annual moot simulation at the Court of Justice of the European Union and in the Mock Trial organised by the Fordham Law School.

As a member of Saarland University, she participated in the Willem C. Vis Moot in 2020/21, where her team were among the 32 best teams. For this achievement, she received an award from the ASKO-Europa Stiftung for her contributions. She is currently coaching the Saarland Univerty team for the 2024 Edition of the EUROSIM competition in New York, US.

Mr Jan Kieszczyński

Litigation and arbitration lawyer experienced in complex cases, in particular those with international law (including EU law) and multi-jurisdiction issues.

I represent international and Polish businesses in courts and arbitrations, and provide pre-litigation strategic advice. My passion for disputes is also helpful in preventing them. Our clients utilize my litigation experience in securing them against any potential arguments. I also act as an arbitrator in international and domestic commercial arbitration.

I work with enterprises from a host of industries including financial markets (including banking & investment funds), real estate, shipping & transport, medical, construction & heavy industries.

I have particular experience in frauds as well as difficult debt and enforcement matters. Having been involved in a number of such cases, I have gained valuable experience in advanced and non-linear ways of approaching asset tracing & asset recovery.

I have a close affinity with Scandinavia and put it to use in advising clients from the Scandinavian countries in doing business in Poland. I help Scandinavian clients overcome cultural and legal challenges associated with being present on the Polish market. I also assist Polish businesses in projects carried out in the Scandinavian countries.

Mag Ralph Kilches

graduated Univ. of Graz 1997; admitted at the of Vienna 2005; VIS Moot participant (arbitrator) since 2011, also VIS East since 2012, lawyer. Career: Freshfields 1999, Schönherr 2000, Hoffmann-Ostenhof 2002, Foundation of own lawfirm 2006. Member of Commission on Arbitration of the ICC; Member AAA, ABA, DIS, ICC, listed with WIPO, member of Scottish Arbitration Center. Arbitration experience: ICC, VIAC, UN-CITRAL, LCIA, HKIAC

Mr Paul Killian

Mr. Killian's practice focuses on counseling and resolving disputes on behalf of owners, contractors, design engineers and financial institutions in the planning, design and construction of large projects in the US and overseas, including hydroelectric projects, power plants, dams, wind farms, pipelines, hotel, resort and office developments, subways, airports, locks, tunnels, mines, bridges, highways, correctional facilities and water treatment facilities. His practice involves litigation before US appellate and district courts, state courts, the Court of Federal Claims, federal boards of contract appeals, and US and international arbitration panels. He handles government contract disputes before numerous US agencies including the departments of Defense, Transportation, State and Energy, the General Services Administration, and the US Army COE, as well as before numerous state transportation departments.
Mr. Killian has substantial ADR experience including arbitrations and numerous multiple party mediations. His formal ADR training includes: FCIArb Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, AAA and Center for International Legal Studies. He is a member of the Virginia, DC and New York Bars. He has been named to “Best Lawyers in America”, The Who’s Who Legal 100, and Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent.

Mr Felix Kindler

I studied law at the University of Osnabrück and participated in the 26th Vis Moot as a team member. During the 27th Vis Moot I coached the team of our University. I now work as a research assistant at a chair for criminal law at the University of Bochum (RUB). At the same time I work as research assistant in an international law firm based in Düsseldorf, where we mostly deal with commercial arbitration.

Mr Paul Klaas

Dual-qualified as an American lawyer and an English barrister. Taught the international commercial arbitration course at the Harvard Law School and the University of Minnesota Law School. Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators; Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Arbitrator member, Maitland Chambers, London (as to matters seated outside the US); Principal, North Coast Arbitration Chambers, Minneapolis (as to matters seated within the US). Partner, Dorsey & Whitney law firm, Minneapolis and London, from 1977 to 2014. Chair, in various years, of Dorsey's litigation/arbitration practice, international practice, international arbitration practice, and London office. Sole arbitrator, chair of arbitral tribunal, wing arbitrator, or lead counsel in hundreds of lawsuits and arbitrations in multiple countries involving many industries, particularly health care, life sciences, media and entertainment, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, aviation, and natural resources. These lawsuits and arbitrations have involved allegations of breach of contract, fraud, patent infringement, trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, discrimination, monopolization, malpractice, libel, and many other legal claims. I now serve only as an arbitrator, mediator, and law professor. More detailed CV is available on my website, www.paulklaas.com

Mrs Lilia Klochenko

Lilia holds a law and PhD jur. degrees from MGIMO cum laude, is a Fellow at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London), is certified for international arbitration from the ICC Arbitration Academy and qualified for international mediation advocacy at Regent University (London); certified for Intercultural Mediation and Emotional Intelligence from BRDGES Academy (USA); certified by the International Islamic Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (IICRA) as arbitrator and expert in Islamic law and arbitration (2021).
Lilia has specific industry expertise in insurance and reinsurance, construction, energy, transport, IT technology and communications, since 1991. Lilia advices international clients from various industries on the legal aspects of their operations, including investment structuring, market entry strategy, corporate law and corporate governance, contract law, financial/tax, compliance, transfer pricing and other law issues. Lilia’s areas of legal practice also include international law, complex damages, data protection, acquisitions and anti-monopoly clearance, investment documentation and joint ventures arrangements, bankruptcy law and general commercial issues. She focuses her practice on dispute resolution, acting both as a party representative or arbitrator in dispute resolution conducted under DIS, ICC, LCIA, VIAC, CIETAC, FICM, IICRA, UNCITRAL Rules and pure ad-hoc proceedings, as well as mediator in corporate, civil law, labour and family multi-cultural and multi-jurisdiction cases.
Lilia is the author of more than 100 articles and the co-author of several monographs, studies and manuals on different aspects of her competences.

Mr Tim Kniepkamp

CEO & Co-Founder Suitcase GmbH

Dr Hermann Knott

Hermann Knott is a transactional and disputes lawyer with long-standing experience in cross-border matters. He is admitted both to the German and New York Bar and is based in Cologne, Germany. He recently joined KUNZ Lawyers, a dynamic, medium-sized law firm spearheading its international practice. He attended law school in his native Cologne, Geneva, University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Law School.

Mr Ljuben Kocev

- Assistant professor of Commercial Law at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
- Participated in the Vis Moot in 2015. Coach of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Vis Moot team since 2016.

Dr Elena Koch

Dr. Elena Koch
Associate // Advokat (Ukraine)
Foreign Registered Lawyer (Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt am Main)
Rothorn legal | international disputes
elena.koch@rothorn.legal
m +49 151 70 60 30 75

Elena Koch practices in the area of alternative dispute resolution with a focus on international arbitration.
Elena advises in IT, intellectual property, corporate, banking & finance, international trade, construction and in the maritime sector. She advises clients during all stages of litigation and arbitration. Elena is familiar with various substantive and procedural laws as well as with arbitration rules of major international arbitral centres (including ICC, DIS, LCIA, UNCITRAL, and ICAC at UCCI).

Before joining rothorn legal, Elena worked as an associate at a leading law firm in Odessa. Elena completed a number of professional programs, inter alia the International Academy for Arbitration Law in Paris (2021), the ICA International Advanced Regulatory Compliance Programme (2019), and the LEAD Programme of the Ukrainian British City Club in London (2016).

Elena is a member of Young ICCA, the LCIA Young International Arbitration Group, the Ukrainian Arbitration Association, the Ukrainian National Bar Association, and the Ukrainian Bar Association.

Elena speaks English, Russian and Ukrainian and reads German and Bulgarian.

Experience (Excerpt)
Advising the operator of a hydro plant in a dispute against the owner regarding claims arising from an operations and maintenance agreement
Representing clients in recognition and enforcement proceedings concerning international arbitral awards and foreign judgements in Ukraine
Representing a construction company in international arbitration proceedings concerning a complex construction dispute
Representing a Turkish pharmaceutical company in an international sales dispute against a Ukrainian entity in Ukrainian state courts
Advising and representing American, English and Dutch IT companies in court proceedings and proceedings before state authorities in Ukraine
Advising and representing English, German, Cyprian and Danish stevedoring and shipping companies in court proceedings and proceedings before state authorities in Ukraine
Advising and representing Jewish charitable organisations in court proceedings and proceedings before state authorities in Ukraine
Advising a Chinese construction company in negotiations concerning the contract for a steel plant renovation in Ukraine

Education
Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Law, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine), Topic “Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: Theoretical and Practical Approaches”
Master of Law, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine)
Bachelor of Law, Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine)

Publications (Excerpt)
Transnational Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards (in Ukrainian), Simeks Print, 2021
Non-arbitrability: National, International and Transnational Approaches to Define the Matters, European Political and Law Discourse 2020, Volume 7, Issue 6, 7–23
Arbitrability of Corporate Disputes: International Models & Experience of Ukraine, Ukrainian Journal of Business Law 2019, No. 10, 38–40
Crime and Punishment of an LLC Director, Ukrainian Journal of Business Law 2019, No. 3
Destiny of Arbitral Awards in Ukraine (case law of 2013–2018), Ukrainian Journal of Business Law 2019, No. 1–2, 32–34
Transnational Law in International Commercial Arbitration: General Review (in Ukrainian), in: V. Smitiukh (ed.), Economic and Law Studies, Phoenix, 2019, 51–53
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Ukraine: Tendencies in Case Law (in Ukrainian), in: O. I. Mykolenko and N. V. Ilieva (eds.), Constitutional State, Phoenix, 2018, No. 31, 124–133
Principle Iura Novit Curia in International Commercial Arbitration, Constitutional State 2016, No. 22, 181–186
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Ukraine: Problematic Issues (in Ukrainian), Journal of the South Regional Centre of National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine 2015, No. 3, 65–72

MMag Erik KOCH

MMag. Erik Koch, born 1973, studied law at the University of Vienna (incl. an “ERASMUS”- stay in Copenhagen, Denmark) from 1991 to 1996. Afterwards he worked for the Austrian courts, lawyers and a “Notar”. 2005 he finished business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. From 2005 to 2015 he worked for NÖGUS (Healthsystem of Lower Austria) and since 2015 for the Notruf NÖ GmbH (coordination of the emergency rescue services in Lower Austria).
During the 1990-ies Erik Koch acted some years as vice-president for the United Nations Youth and Student Association of Austria - Academic Forum for Foreign Affairs and since 1999 as participant and arbitrator for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Prof Dr Robert Koch

Present positions:
Since 2006, Chair of Private Law and Insurance Law, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law, Director of the Institute of Insurance Science and the LL.M. programme on Insurance Law.
Areas of specialization:
Insurance law, Insurance supervision law, product liability, D&O-liability, IT law, banking law (liability), German and international business law. Author of the monograph "Insurance Law in Germany"
Membership in professional associations:
International Association of Insurance Law (AIDA): member of the Presidential Council AIDA World, Chairman Financial Lines Working Party; Hamburg Association of Insurance Science (chairman); German Association of Insurance Science; German Maritime Law Association; German Institution of Arbitration; German Maritime Arbitration Institution; Hamburg Arbitation Circle.

Mrs Magda Kofluk

Magda is a construction arbitration specialist based in Dubai within Stephenson Harwood's international arbitration and construction and engineering practice groups. She has represented clients in over a dozen complex and high-value arbitrations relating to international construction projects across all major industries including energy, infrastructure, real estate, airports, and rail. She is experienced in proceedings under the ICC, DIAC and QICCA rules, as well as in pre-arbitration negotiations and dispute board proceedings. Her experience includes representing a Middle Eastern sovereign government in multiple arbitration proceedings concerning a major infrastructure project in the region with more than US$2 billion in dispute. She has also been a lead counsel on multiple high-value construction arbitrations under the ICC Rules. Magda was shortlisted as "Construction Lawyer of the Year" at the LexisNexis Middle East Women in Law Awards 2023. She is frequently requested to speak at construction and legal conferences in the market. Magda is the YoungITA Chair for the Middle East and member of the Steering Committee of Young Arbitral Women Practitioners.

Prof Benoit Kohl

Professor
Benoît Kohl is a professor at the law faculty of the Université de Liège, where he heads the department for contract law and construction law. Since 2010, he is appointed guest lecturer at the Université de Paris II (Panthéon Assas), where he teaches European construction law. Moreover, at the law faculty, he is in charge of the programme of evening classes intended for construction professionals who wish to become legal experts.

Attorney
Benoît Kohl is an attorney at the Brussel’s Bar. He concentrates on real estate law, construction law and contract law in general. Besides negotiating contracts, drawing up legal advice and structuring operations in relation to these matters, he has also dealt with various disputes before judicial courts and in arbitrational procedures. Besides, he often acts as an arbitrator in these matters. He has been appointed as arbitrator in many domestic or international cases (ICC, ad hoc, …)

Additional information
Since June 2020, Benoît Kohl is the President of the CEPANI, the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (www.cepani.be). Between 2012 and 2017, he was also the Co-President of Cepani40, an association of young arbitration practitioners, operating under the CEPANI. He is also appointed by the Belgian Minister of Justice to represent Belgium at the United Nations, for the negotiation of the UNCITRAL instruments on arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (https://uncitral.un.org/en/working_groups/2/arbitration) .

Benoît Kohl is a founding member of the Belgian Association for Construction Law (www.abdc.be). He was president of the association between 2010 and 2019. In 2011, he was appointed President of the European Society of Construction Law (www.escl.org). He is also a member of the International Academy of Construction Lawyers (http://int-acl.org).

Benoît Kohl has been appointed by the Belgian Minister of Justice to seat from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the federal commission in charge of the reform the Civil code (contract law).

He is regularly invited as a guest speaker at conferences in Belgium or abroad.

In 2008, he won the UPSI award for his doctor’s thesis relating to the European harmonization of construction law and real estate promotion. In 2010, thanks to this thesis, he was awarded the triennial Jean Rey Award at the European Parliament

Ms Lucie Kolačkovská

Lucie represented Charles University in the 28th Vis Moot competition. As she enjoyed the experience and was rather curious what an actual in-person moot court looks like, she decided to become a coach of the Charles University team. Apart from an obvious interest in commercial law and international arbitration, she also focuses on medical law as a research assistant at the Department of Medical Law.

Mrs Luíza Kömel

Deputy Secretary General of the Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the CCBC (CAM-CCBC) in Brazil. She has obtained her law degree from the University of São Paulo (USP) and is certified in civil law by the University of Paris II: Pantheón-Assas. She has experience as counsel and case manager in domestic and international arbitration proceedings.
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).
Organizer of CAM-CCBC Pre-Moots in São Paulo and Hamburg.
Former editor of CISG-Brasil.net.
Participated in the:
18th Vis Moot as speaker;
19th Vis Moot as coach and arbitrator;
21st, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th editions as arbitrator;
and once in the 14th Vis East Moot in Hong Kong also as arbitrator.

Dr Michael Komuczky

2010-2014 Associate Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Regulatory Group, DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach Rechtsanwälte GmbH, Vienna Austria
2011/12 Member of Moot Court Team, University of Vienna

2014-2018 research assistant at the Department of Comparative Law, Uniform Law, Private International Law (o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bea Verschraegen, Vienna)
2018-2019 associate of Dr. Rudolf Fiebinger, attorney at law in Vienna
2019 Bar Exam in Austria
2020 Doctorate, PhD thesis on Commercial Arbitration and Criminal Law (supervisor Univ.-Prof. Dr. Paul Oberhammer, Vienna)
2020 to date attorney at Lansky, Ganzger & Partner, Vienna

Mr Michał König

Partner at Kochański & Partners, Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Department in Warsaw. Michał focuses mostly on complex dispute resolution including investment and commercial arbitration, as well as commercial litigation. He advises on the pre-trial stage and represents his clients in commercial disputes before common courts and arbitral tribunals, as well as investor-state disputes. He is also experienced in representing clients before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw and the New York University School of Law (the specialized LL.M. in International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration). Admitted to practice in Poland and New York.

Mr Vladimir Konstantinidis

Vladimir Konstantinidis is the founder of his private practice law firm and has experience in international commercial law and arbitration.

Vladimir Konstantinidis holds a bachelor law degree from the Law faculty of the University of Novi Sad, Serbia and a master law degree from the International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki, Greece.

He is a member of the Arbitration Association of Serbia and the Hellenic Business Association of Serbia.

He speaks english in a full professional working capacity and greek as a third language.

Mr Dimitris Kontogiannis

Ph.D. candidate and Doctoral Teaching and Research Assistant in International Arbitration, University of Geneva;
EU-Qualified Lawyer (Greece, 2018)

Asst Prof Dr Orhan Emre Konuralp

Dr. Konuralp received his undergraduate degree from Ankara University in 2011, his LL.M. degree in law and economics from Bilkent University in 2013. He got his Ph.D. degree in private law from Bilkent University in 2018. He conducted his doctoral research in Justus Liebig Universitaet, Gießen, Germany from February 2015 to February 2016 for the doctoral dissertation on "Civil Liability of Arbitrators". After completion of Ph.D degree he was entitled a post-doc scholarship which was provided by Bilkeny University in which he used to work as research assistant during his LL.M. and Ph.D studies. He conducted his post-doc research in Universität Regensburg, Germany from August 2018 to July 2019 and in Institut suisse de droit comparé, Lausanne-Switzerland from October 2019 to March 2020 (which would be end in July 2020 but shortened due to Covid-19 crisis). He wrote the problem of the ELSA Ankara's Moot in 2017 and 2018, he also participates in Vis Moot and FDI Moot as an arbitrator since 2018. Dr. Konuralp's researches mainly focus on Civil Procedure, Enforcement and Insolvency Law and currently he is Assistant Professor at Kirklareli University Faculty of Law.

Mr Torsten Köppel

Dispute resolution lawyer at CMS Hasche Sigle in Stuttgart (Germany) specializing in commercial and corporate litigation and arbitration (DIS and ICC rules), mostly focused on complex technical disputes from the mechanical engineering industry as well as post M&A disputes. Law studies and legal clerkship in Mannheim (Germany) with placement at an international law firm in Barcelona (Spain). Fluent in German, English and Spanish.

Ms Tamara Koresova

Tamara is an associate at Squire Patton Boggs (Prague). Her work is focused mainly on litigation and investment arbitration. Apart from her legal education, Tamara further broadens her knowledge of finances at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, where she focuses on asset valuation in relation to dispute resolution.

Ms Laura Korn

Former participant in the 25th Vis Moot for the University of Freiburg and current PhD student at the University of Heidelberg.

Mr Alexander Korobeinikov

Alexander Korobeinikov is a Councel at the Almaty office of Baker & McKenzie. He specializes in dispute resolution, energy & natural resources and antitrust & competition issues. Mr. Korobeinikov is an author of a number of articles on Belarusian, Kazakhstani, Kyrgyz, Uzbekistan, Russian and English law issues, including international arbitration, dispute resolution, anti-monopoly and bankruptcy proceedings.
Mr. Korobeinikov is included in lists of a number of European and Central Asia international arbitration institutions. He is also a member of the Supporting Competition in the CIS Non-commercial Partnership. Mr. Korobeinikov is a member of SCC Young Arbitrators Stockholm and ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (Paris), and also he is a member of ICC European Arbitration Group (Paris).

Mr Aleksei Korochkin

I am Chairman of the International Arbitration Court "Chamber of Arbitrators" (Minsk, Belarus), Chairman of the Sport Arbitration Court (Minsk, Belarus), Head of Minsk Regional Specialized Legal Advice Office on Juridical Support to Business, advocate, mediator, PhD, associate professor

Dr Veronika Korom

Dr. Veronika Korom is an Assistant Professor in Law at ESSEC Business School in Paris and a lecturer in law at the Paris Dauphine University and the Pázmány Péter University of Budapest. She is dual-qualified as solicitor of England and Wales and as avocat admitted to the Paris bar, and is also a member of the Budapest bar. She has been working in international arbitration for the past 9 years, and is currently a senior attorney at Bredin Prat in Paris.

Mr Vitaliy Kosovych

MLB (Bucerius), LL.M. (Notre Dame). Coached Vis Moot Teams (in Ukraine and the US) for four years already; participated in Vis Moot three times and once in Vis East Moot; attended 16 Pre-Moots as a participant; organized Lviv Vis Pre-Moot 2020.

Ms Sofia Kovacevic

Sofia Kovačević is a Senior Associate at Wolf Theiss and a member of the firm's Arbitration Team in Vienna. Her areas of expertise focus on international investment arbitration, commercial arbitration, and construction arbitration under the FIDIC rules. Prior to joining Wolf Theiss, Sofia worked at several prominent law firms in Vienna and Serbia, advising both international and local clients in litigation, arbitration and mediation matters. She has acted as counsel in several high-profile investment, construction and commercial arbitration proceedings under the ICC Rules, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, CEAC Rules.

Sofia obtained her law degree from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law where she also earned a degree in Master of International Law (MIL). In addition, she holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the University of Cambridge and is currently a candidate for a PhD in Civil Law at the University of Belgrade.

She is admitted to the Serbian bar and is a licensed mediator registered in the Serbian Ministry of Justice. She is listed on VIAC's List of Practitioners in International Arbitration and is a member of the Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP), ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF), Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration (Young ICCA), and ASA Below 40. She founded the Serbian Chapter and co-founded the Austrian Chapter of ENERAP (Energy Related Arbitration Practitioners).

Sofia's working languages are Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, English, German, Spanish, and she is conversational in French.

Mr Werner R. Kranenburg

Werner R. Kranenburg, the principal of Kranenburg, is an attorney and arbitrator. The focus of his law practice is on the representation of private individual stockholders and institutional investors in corporate governance matters, stockholder and securities class action litigation, and arbitration before specialised tribunals. He is admitted to the bars of the State of New York and various US federal courts.

Prior to qualifying as a lawyer, Mr Kranenburg worked in the financial sector for over ten years. He obtained a bachelor's degree in management, economics and law, an honours bachelor's degree in law with a concentration in business law and a master's degree in finance and financial law.

Dr Claudia Krapfl

Dr. Claudia Krapfl is an associated partner in the Gleiss Lutz Dispute Resolution Practice Group based in Stuttgart, Germany. She focuses on arbitration and cross-border litigation. She acts as counsel and arbitrator in national and international arbitrations (in particular DIS and ICC) with an emphasis on post-M&A disputes, joint ventures, plant construction, energy law and general commercial law. She regularly publishes and speaks on topics of international arbitration. She has been acting as arbitrator in the Vis Moot for over 15 years.

Mr Janusch Krasberg

Janusch is an Associate at Freshfields in Frankfurt and currently on leave to complete his LL.M. at London School of Economics. He coaches LSE's Vis Team and coached Bucerius Law Schools Vis Moot Team for three years.

Dr Florian Kremslehner

Position: Head of Dispute Resolution at DORDA
Professional formation: Vienna University, admitted to Vienna Bar 1990
Working experience: arbitrations in German, Englisch, Italian; civil and criminal and adminstrative litigations before Austrian courts;
Specialised in: resolution of complex disputes, corporate disputes, asset recovery, tax evasion, transnational trust and succession cases
Sports: ski mountaineering, rowing
Instrument: Violoncello

Mr Eriks Kreslins

Education:
University of Latvia, Faculty of Law – Bachelor of Social Sciences in Law;
University of Latvia, Faculty of Law – Master of Social Sciences in Law and Lawyer’s Qualification.

Current job:
Sworn advocate at J.Karklins Law Firm.
A Member of Latvian Collegium of Sworn Advocates since 2018.
Specialisation - dispute resolution.

Acted as counsel in international commercial arbitrations (SCC, SAC).
Participated as a referent in conferences regarding civil law matters; author of several publications.
During studies successfully participated in various international Law Moot courts (24th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, European Law Moot Court etc.) and in national moot courts in civil law and constitutional law.

E-mail: kreslins.eriks@gmail.com

Mr Marc Krestin

Marc Krestin (1982) is a Partner at the Amsterdam office of the international law firm Pogust Goodhead and co-head of the firm's International Arbitration group. He joined Pogust Goodhead in January 2022 after having worked over 13 years for other international law firms in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Paris. Marc specialises in international arbitration and group litigation.

His international arbitration experience includes acting as counsel in arbitrations under the ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL and NAI rules, with a focus on energy and post-M&A disputes. He regularly advises private investors and state entities on investment protection and international investment arbitration. He is also frequently involved in arbitration-associated court litigation, such as the enforcement and setting aside of arbitral awards.

Marc is a member of ICC YAF, LCIA YIAG, Young ICCA, NAI and the Arbitration Commission of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA). Marc also co-chairs the Investment Arbitration Committee of the Dutch Arbitration Association (DAA). He regularly speaks and publishes on topics of international arbitration.

Marc holds Masters degrees in International Law and Economics from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and an LLM in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary University of London.

Ms Manuela Kreuzeder

Manuela Kreuzeder is an associated partner in Noerr's Berlin office with more than seven years of experience in commercial arbitration.

Manuela Kreuzeder acts as counsel and arbitrator in arbitral proceedings conducted under various arbitration rules as well as in ad hoc arbitrations. Her practice has a particular focus on disputes in the banking sector and disputes arising out of supply contracts in different industries. She also advises clients with regard to the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in Germany and on matters related to International Private Law. In addition to her arbitration practice, she specialises in antitrust damages claims.

Manuela Kreuzeder further currently acts as regional coordinator of the DIS40 for the Berlin area.

Mr Sebastian Shangwen Krieger

Sebastian Shangwen Krieger participated for the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in the 25th Vis Moot and coached the Team from Freiburg for the 29th Vis Moot. His teams received several awards and honourable mentions in both Hong Kong and Vienna.

Currently pursuing a doctoral degree in the field of International Investment Law and working as a research assitant at the department for International Investment and Business Law at the University of Freiburg.

Ms Anne Krogh Christensen

Anne Krogh Christensen works as an assistant attorney at the law firm Gorrissen Federspiel in Denmark in their litigation and arbitration department. She attended the 28th Vis Moot with the team from Aarhus University and has been coaching the team from Aarhus the last two years.

Ms Zarah Kronbach

Ms Sophia Kubo

I have participated in the Vis Moot in the year 2017/2018 and coached a team in the year 2019/2020. I studied and coached at the University of Tübingen, which is where I am pursuing a PhD program now. I also work as a Research assistant and Tribunal Secretary with an independent arbitrator.

Mr Alok Kumar

Mr Divij Kumar

Mr. Kumar is an advocate and international dispute settlement lawyer. With an illustrious career marked by a wealth of academic accomplishments and over six years of industrial exposure, his practice focuses on the intricate resolution of complex international disputes, drawing upon his expertise in working on the settlement of disputes from multifaceted approaches.

His journey reflects his profound commitment to the field of international law and dispute settlement. A testament to his unwavering dedication and unparalleled acumen, Mr. Kumar has served as a distinguished member of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group-II on Dispute Settlement and made invaluable contributions to the field.

From his cross-disciplinary experience of collaborating with leading arbitrators, professors, and teams representing investors, respondent states, commercial entities, and intergovernmental organizations, he garnered commendation for his strategic approaches in devising recourse in India's most recent and high-volume international arbitration disputes.

Mr. Kumar also continues his engagements with the most distinguished academic circles, including his association with the renowned and globally acclaimed expert, Professor Dr. Julien Chaisse, from the City University Hong Kong, to contribute and lead the forefront of legal advancements.

Mr Pawan Kumar

Assistant Professor of International Legal Studies, School of Law, Bennett University.

Mr Subir Kumar

Mr. Subir Kumar, is India's National Committee Delegate to ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, Paris. He is Founder, SDS Advocates and is a Senior Standing Counsel for Central Government Litigations and Central Board of Direct Taxes & Central Board of Indirect Taxes in India with experience of over 10 years in Commercial disputes, Arbitration, Shipping laws, Insolvency laws, Tax Laws. Mr. Kumar is involved in Domestic as well as International Commercial Arbitration in India. He has appeared in relation to various matters for Public Sector Undertakings before the Bombay High Court, Supreme Court of India and Arbitral Tribunals involving foreign party in India.
Mr Kumar completed law from ILS Law College, Pune in the year 2009 and LLM-International Trade & Investment Laws. He holds Diploma in International Maritime Arbitration, CIArb, London. He completed International Commercial Arbitration Course from Columbia Law School-CIArb, London. He also holds certificate in Negotiation Mastery from Harvard Business School Online. Forbes India awarded him as Top Managing Partner in the Legal Powerlist, 2021 and his firm SDS Advocates was awarded Top Law firm by Forbes India in the Legal Powerlist 2021 in the category of Arbitration/ADR/Dispute Resolution. He featured as Distinguished Legal Minds of India in the Coffee Book published by Legal Era for the year 2019-2020. He was invited as Guest Speaker to the legal conclave “Make in India” held on December 1, 2016 in London, where he spoke on “Are arbitrations ethical or just a private unethical fight?”. He was also invited as Guest Speaker to the legal conclave “General Congress” organized in 2017 by Legal Era Magazine. He was awarded Rising Star under 40 (2017) by Legal Era, and his Firm SDS Advocates was the winner of Boutique law firm of year 2019-2020 by Legal Era.

Ms Raimonda Kundrotaite

Raimonda Kundrotaite is a director and a member of the board at Baltic Litigation Fund . For nearly 10 years, she has been handling complex energy project development and holding responsibility in overseeing international investment and commercial arbitration cases in Sweden and Eastern Europe.

Raimonda is an attorney at law in Texas, the United States of America. Raimonda is a general counsel at the Swedish publicly traded energy company Misen Energy AB. Prior to that, she worked at Valiunas Ellex and the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania.

Raimonda holds LL.M degree in Global Energy Law from the University of Texas at Austin (the United States of America), Master of Laws degree in International Commercial Arbitration Law from Stockholm University (Sweden) and Bachelor of Laws degree in Law and Management at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania).

Mr Hrvoje Kurelec

Hrvoje has extensive experience in international arbitration and public international law matters, in particular investor-state dispute settlement. He has acted as counsel in arbitration disputes conducted under various institutional arbitration rules (ICSID, ICC, VIAC and SCC) across a wide range of sectors, inter alia energy, construction and mining. Hrvoje started his career at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia and he also worked as a legal advisor to the Croatian Parliament.
Prior to joining AKG ADVISORY, Hrvoje was part of the arbitration and litigation practice groups of leading law firms in Croatia, France, and Austria, where he advised States and international corporations. Hrvoje is a member of the Croatian Bar Association.

Mr Niels Kurth

Niels Kurth is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. He specializes in the fields of international private law and international civil procedure. Niels took part in the Vis Moot in Vienna in 2015 and has been associated with the competition ever since. Like in the years 2016 and 2018, he is coaching the VIs Moot Team of the Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Mr Matthias Kuscher

Matthias Kuscher is a partner in De Brauw's disputes group who specialises in international disputes, including international commercial and investment arbitration and cross-border litigation.

Since joining De Brauw in 2012, Matthias has acted as counsel in and advised on large-scale international disputes in the fields of energy, infrastructure, investment protection, construction and intellectual property under the rules of the ICC, UNCITRAL, DIS, Swiss Chambers, VIAC, NAI and ICSID as well as before the Dutch and English courts. He also sits as an international arbitrator.

Prior to joining De Brauw, Matthias was Legal Counsel to the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague and established the PCA’s first overseas presence as the inaugural PCA Representative and Legal Officer in the Republic of Mauritius. Before that, Matthias was the Counsel in charge of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth case management team at the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, where he supervised hundreds of arbitrations and scrutinised dozens of arbitral awards.

Matthias was educated at Cambridge (B.A., M.A. in Law – Double First), Oxford (B.C.L. – Distinction) and Heidelberg (LL.M. – Sehr Gut). He speaks English, German, French and Dutch.

Mr Georg Kuusik

I participated at Willem C. Vis Moot in 2018 and later on have acted as a coach to the teams of University of Tartu. In 2020 I graduated from University of Tartu and currently I am working at a law firm as an attorney focusing primarily on finance and insurance law.
During my studies and later at work I have completed a number of courses and projects focusing on international arbitration.

Dr Marc R Labgold

Dr Labgold is an independent international arbitrator and also regularly serves as lead counsel in complex international commercial arbitrations under a broad range of arbitral rules and procedures in disputes arising from a wide array of contract types and subject matters. He has experience and expertise in the arbitration of disputes involving patents and other IP, both as counsel and as an arbitrator. He is listed as an arbitration panelist with AIAC, AIPLA, ICDR, THAC and WIPO.

He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at FIU Law, where he teaches classes in international commercial arbitration and serves as a Coach of FIU Law's Vis Moot team.

As a registered U.S. patent attorney specializing in patent litigation, Dr Labgold has served as lead counsel in more than 60 U.S. patent infringement litigations, first-chaired bench and jury trials, and successfully represented my clients before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States

Education:

BA, Chemistry, New York University (NYU)
PhD, Chemistry with emphasis in Molecular Biology, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
JD, George Washington University National Law Center.

Ms Megan C. Labgold

Megan C. Labgold is a registered U.S. patent attorney specializing in international commercial arbitration and patent litigation.

Ms. Labgold earned her bachelor's degree in biology from West Virginia University and her JD from Florida International University College of Law (FIU). While at FIU, Ms Labgold was a member of the International Commercial Arbitration team and represented FIU at the 26th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria.

Ms. Labgold has been involved in all phases of international commercial arbitrations, including participating in in-person and remote hearings in arbitrations seated in Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York. In addition to her role as counsel, she has served as Tribunal Secretary in a complex arbitration that included claims of patent infringement, breach of confidentiality and misappropriation of trade secrets. Ms. Labgold has also published on various topics in international commercial arbitration.

She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at FIU and serves as a Coach of FIU's Vis Moot team.

Ms Valeriia Lada

Valeriia is a Ukrainian-qualified lawyer who has vast experience in domestic dispute resolution, as well as international commercial and investment arbitration.
Valeriia represented private and state-owned entities in commercial disputes under the GAFTA and ICAC UCCI arbitration rules. Her experience also includes acting as a local counsel for Ukraine in an investment dispute under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. She also advised clients on potential prospects of protecting their rights under BITs. In addition, she has experience in the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, as well as setting-aside procedures in Ukraine.
She is a member of several professional associations, including the Ukrainian Arbitration Association, Young ICCA and Young ITA. She often prepared and published reports on Ukrainian arbitration-related court cases for UAA.
Valeriia holds a Bachelor (2014) and a Master (2016) degree in law from reputable Ukrainian universities. She has a strong interest in English common law and accomplished two 1-year diploma courses in English law. Now she is doing LL.M. in International Dispute Resolution in the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Dr Tanneke Laffargue-Haak

Dr Tanneke LAFFARGUE-HAAK
Dr Tanneke Laffargue-Haak currently works at the EPO, the patent office for Europe where she has judged patents for more than two decades in the field of life sciences, in particular pharmaceuticals and medical devices. She conducted more than 150 oppositions in English, German and French. Tanneke was also involved in training and coaching patent examiners at the EPO and national offices, as well as European patent attorneys.
Confronted with the limits of post grant inter partes administrative procedures, Tanneke got interested in ADR for resolving patent disputes. She earned a post graduate diploma with Merits in international commercial arbitration from Queen Mary in 2012 and intends to work as an independent arbitrator and technical expert for cross-border life science patent disputes in the near future.
A native of the Netherlands, Tanneke’s education covers pharmacy, business administration and law and has been acquired across Europe (Utrecht, Grenoble, Toulouse, London, Geneva). Prior to serving at the EPO in Munich, she worked in pharmaceutical industry in charge of marketing authorisations for veterinary medicines.

Mr Divyakant Lahoti

Divyakant Lahoti graduated in the year 2008 and is a third generation lawyer. He is an Advocate on Record, a dedicated and driven lawyer with an LL.M. qualification in International Commercial Law earned at King’s College London. He has wide experience in a wide range of settings. Divyakant has also secured a specialization in Intellectual Property Rights from theUniversity of South Africa and WIPO in 2011. In the early professional life, Divyakant was trained and fine-tuned under the able guidance of Justice R. C. Lahoti, Former Chief Justice of India. Luthra and Luthra had provided him with an action-packed litigation experience, be it 2G or Defence Scam, from heavy stake commercial arbitrations to high profile telecom litigation. Divyakant is also an activist lawyer and has consecutive convened National Experts’ Workshop on Criminal Prosecution with the assistance of Haryana Police in the year 2016 and 2017 for the training and development of Police Force. Divyakant is a Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Young ICCA Advisory Member “Buddy”. He has authored articles which have been published in recognized legal journals. He was featured as a SuperLawyer in 2016 and acknowledged as an aced legal professional in the book “On theRise”.

Ms Carolina Lana

Legal and Compliance Manager at Alstom (Berlin). Master of Laws (LL.M) in International Dispute Resolution at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, with focus on International Commercial Arbitration. Brazilian qualified lawyer with experience in both domestic and international commercial arbitration in Brazil and in Germany. All-round experience in several editions of the Vis Moot, first as researcher and speaker, later as support coach of the Humboldt Vis Moot Team and member of the Organising Comittee for the Berlin Premoot, and for a few years now as Arbitrator.

Ms Emmanuelle Lanctôt

I am a litigation lawyer, specialized in commercial litigation and international arbitration, with a keen interest in art law.

PD Dr Johannes Landbrecht

Law studies in Konstanz/Germany (mag jur 2006), London/UK (LLB 2011), Geneva/Switzerland (Dr iur 2012) and Fribourg/Switzerland (Privatdozent); University of London Award for Academic Achievement (2009, 2010).
Admitted to the bar in Germany (Rechtsanwalt, 2008), England & Wales (barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 2014), and Switzerland (2018).
About 15 years of arbitration experience with a focus on energy and IP related disputes: Jones Day 2008–12 (Frankfurt/Germany, Paris/France); LALIVE 2012–17 (Geneva); Rajah & Tann 2017 (Singapore); GABRIEL Arbitration 2017–23 (Zurich); Walder Wyss 2023— (Geneva); recommended, inter alia, as Future Leader Arbitration by GAR/Who's Who Legal since 2017.
Lecturer at the University of Zurich (since 2014), the University of Münster/Germany (since 2018), and the University of Geneva (since 2022); regular speaking engagements and publications in the areas of arbitration and conflict of laws.
Former regional co-coordinator of DIS40 in Switzerland.

Ms Nina Lauber-Thommesen

Nina Lauber-Thommesen is an independent Norwegian arbitrator based in Geneva, Switzerland. The strength of her expertise and breadth of knowledge comes from a unique combination of Nordic legal background, extensive practice in Switzerland and with Swiss law, and solid experience in international dispute resolution. She has acted as arbitrator, party representative and tribunal secretary in a wide range of cases and industries, with particular focus on construction, energy, joint ventures and industrial cooperation, M&A, banking and finance, agency and distribution, sales contracts, licencing agreements and sports related disputes.

Before starting her own practice in 2023, Nina Lauber-Thommesen was Counsel at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, a leading international arbitration boutique based in Geneva, Switzerland. She joined Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler in 2015 after having obtained an LL.M in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS, Geneva, 2011) and thereafter spent four years in the international arbitration group of Python & Peter, also in Geneva (2011-2015). She acquired her first law degree (Master of Laws, 2007) and trained for the Norwegian bar (norsk advokatbevilling) in Bergen, Norway (2010).

Mr Paul Ferdinand Lauster

Participant of the 26th Vis / 16th Vis East for the team of Munich University (LMU). Coach for the team of Munich University in 30th Vis / 20th Vis (East).
Now, after graduating from LMU and passing the First State Examination in Germany, I am currently doing my legal clerkship with the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg (Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht). Worked as Research Associate in Dispute Resolution Boutique and interned with several international law firms in the field of International Commercial Arbitration.

Dr Michael Lazopoulos

Dr Pr Benoit Le Bars

Benoit is an arbitrator and counsel specialized in emerging markets and Africa since 25 years with cases in more than 75 countries including 42 in Africa. Founding partner of Lazareff Le Bars Benoit is also an academic teaching in France and the USA. A French registered lawyer Benoit practices all over the planet in ad hoc and institutional arbitration, including investment arbitration at ICSID and PCA.

Ms Amanda Lee

Amanda Lee is an independent Arbitrator and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Law, UK. Her experience as counsel includes advising on all aspects of Dispute Resolution, with particular expertise in commercial litigation, arbitration and Privy Council procedure.

Amanda is dual–qualified (presently non-practising) as a Solicitor-Advocate with rights of audience in civil proceedings in the Higher Courts and admitted to the Bars of New York and the US Supreme Court. She obtained a first class honours degree in law from Aberystwyth University and completed the Legal Practice Course at the University of Law, obtaining a distinction. More recently she obtained a Certificate in International Commercial Law from PACE University.

Amanda is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators ('CIArb'), a Director of ArbitralWomen, founder of the 'Careers in Arbitration' initiative, immediate past Global Chair of the CIArb's Young Members Group and a past member of the CIArb's Board of Management. She serves as an Ambassador for The Alliance for Equality in Dispute Resolution. She acts as a Professional Ambassador for ‘Aspiring Solicitors’ and participates in university mentoring schemes.

Amanda has participated as arbitrator at the Vis Moot on numerous occasions and has coached for the FDI Moot.

Mag Niamh Leinwather

Niamh Leinwather is a principal associate and works at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Vienna. She is a member of the dispute resolution practice group and specialises in international arbitration.
Niamh has experience in disputes involving construction, energy, joint ventures and post-M&A matters. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in cases under the ICC, VIAC, UNCITRAL and ad hoc rules.
Niamh was born in Galway, Ireland and completed her legal education at the universities of Dublin (University College Dublin) and Vienna (University of Vienna). Niamh holds law degrees from both universities as well as a Master of European Studies (M.E.S.) from the University of Vienna. She was admitted to the Austrian Bar in 2013.
During her studies Niamh worked as a legal assistant at a number of international law firm in Vienna. After a clerkship with various courts in Vienna, Niamh worked as an associate in another prominent law firm’s real estate group.
Niamh joined Freshfields in 2010. She speaks German and English.

Miss Tara Lengersdorf Medjedovic

Tara is an LLM graduate of the London School of Economics. She is a future trainee solicitor at Hogan Lovells in London. She previously participated at the Vis Moot and has been coaching the team of Ljubljana and LSE for several years.

Mr Fadri Lenggenhager

Fadri Lenggenhager is Counsel at Lenz & Staehelin in Zurich. His practice focuses on international commercial arbitration and litigation. He also practiced as a member of the Dispute Resolution team in Lenz & Staehelin's Geneva office and the international arbitration practice group of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr in London. Fadri Lenggenhager holds degrees in Political Science (2003), International Management (2003) and Law (2005) from the University of St. Gallen, an LL.M. degree (2011) from the University of California, Davis School of Law, and a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (2014) from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London. He was admitted to the Zurich Bar in 2007. Fadri Lenggenhager also sits an an arbitrator.

Mr Samuel Leong

Samuel is Supervising Counsel at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).

With over a decade of specialist international arbitration experience, Samuel has acted as both arbitrator and arbitration counsel. Prior to re-joining SIAC, Samuel was a Senior Associate in the international arbitration team of a global law firm.

Samuel is recognised by Who’s Who Legal as a “most highly regarded” Future Leader in Arbitration; by The Legal 500 in its International Arbitration Powerlist for Southeast Asia; and as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer. He also serves on the YSIAC Committee and the Tutors Panel of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) Academy.

Described as “one of the leaders of the next generation”, he has been commended for his “impeccable knowledge of arbitration”, for having a “deep knowledge of the practices and procedures of arbitral institutions” and as “a persuasive advocate, with a bold and creative writing style.”

Samuel graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Columbia University School of Law, New York (as a Fulbright and Harlan Fiske Stone scholar). Samuel is admitted to the Malaysian Bar, and is fluent in Bahasa Melayu and conversant in Mandarin Chinese.

Dr Markus Lieberknecht

Law Student at University of Passau (2009-2015)
Vis Moot participant (2011/2012)
Vis Moot coach (2012/2013 and 2018/2019)
Law Clerk (Referendar) in Hamburg, Berlin, and Karlsruhe (2016-2018)
PhD at Heidelberg University (2017-2021)
Associate at SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz, Mannheim (2021-present)
LL.M. at Harvard Law School (2021-2022)
Post-Doctoral Researcher at Heidelberg University (since 2022)

Dr Steffen Lindemann

Steffen Lindemann is a Senior Associate at the international dispute resolution boutique rothorn legal in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He advises and represents clients in complex proceedings before arbitral tribunals and state courts, both domestic and international, with a focus on contractual disputes. Before joining rothorn legal, Steffen was an Associate in the Dispute Resolution department of Linklaters LLP. Steffen holds a Ph.D. from Goethe University of Frankfurt.
He has been involved with the Willem C. Vis Moot for more than a decade, having participated for the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and having coached the Freiburg team twice.

Mr Jia Yu Ling

Jia Yu practises international arbitration and dispute settlement at WongPartnership LLP in Singapore, where he is a Senior Associate. His work comprises high-value complex arbitrations across a variety of sectors, such as metals and mining, infrastructure, and engineering. He also represents clients in landmark annulment and enforcement proceedings before the courts of Singapore.

Mr Kalle Lipsanen

I am a Finnish lawyer acting as a trainee district judge at district court of Länsi-Uusimaa. I Participated in the 26th Vis Moot and coached in the 27th.

Mr Dominik Liška

During the last two years of his studies, Dominik spent days and nights preparing for the Vis Moot. The first time, representing Charles University, the second time, Stockholm University, with which he had the opportunity to compete among top 16 teams. Upon his graduation, Dominik left Danubian arbitration and entered the world of real dispute resolution in the Czech law firm BBH, where he is currently a senior attorney. Additionally, he serves his fourth year as one of the coaches of the Charles University team. Aside from that, Dominik is a keen long-distance walker.

Ms Eileen Loebig

German qualified associate in the international arbitration practice of Allen & Overy LLP since 2020.

Dr Ulrich Lohmann

Dr. Ulrich Lohmann is partner at Peters, Schönberger & Partner (https://www.psp.eu/de/psp-team/ulrich-lohmann) in Munich. He has more than thirty years of experience with the containment and resolution of cross-border corporate and commercial disputes in arbitration, mediation and court proceedings, both as party representative and as arbitrator. He focusses on international corporate commercial arbitration, mediation and dispute resolution financing. Dr Lohmann also is general counsel to an advanced-manufacturing technology fund.

Dr Stefan Lohn

Stefan Lohn is Counsel in the Lititgation & Dispute Resolution practice group of Clifford Chance in Düsseldorf, Germany. He specializes in international and domestic commercial arbitration and litigation. His practice focuses on post-M&A disputes, commercial, warranty and product liability disputes with a focus on automotive, capital goods and electronics, as well as real estate-related disputes, including plant and civil construction. Stefan has acted as counsel in and advised on arbitration proceedings before various institutions, including the ICC, the SIAC, the German Arbitration Institution (DIS), as well as ad-hoc arbitration proceedings under UNCITRAL rules and sports arbitration proceedings under the International Sporting Code of the FIA.

Ms María del Mar López-Latorre

LL.M. in International Dispute Resolution, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Juris Doctor and B. A. in Communication with a concentration in Information and Journalism, University of Puerto Rico. Attorney admitted to practice in Puerto Rico. Ten years of experience in legal continuing education and Academia . Honorary Member of the Ibero-American Forum on Administrative Law.

Mr Hugo Lorain

I participated twice in the Vis Moot, once as an oralist for Reykjavik University in 2018 (round 64), and the second time as Student-Coach for University of Montpellier in 2019. In 2020, I was coach for University of Nice as well as arbitrator for the online hearings.
I currently work as Head of Legal and Compliance in a French FinTech and provide strategic and arbitral advices through my personal consulting firm.

Dr Greg Lourie

Greg is a German qualified lawyer and Counsel at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He heads the ICA 3 case management team responsible for the administration of approximately 200 arbitrations, primarily in connection with Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, Scandinavia and the Nordics.

Prior to joining the ICC, Greg worked as an attorney with major international law firms in Paris, Frankfurt and Washington DC. He has represented clients in complex international commercial, investor-state, and state-state arbitrations across a broad range of industries, with a particular focus on Western and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Greg has also significant experience in advising governments on issues of public international law, including sovereign and diplomatic immunities and human rights.

Greg holds a PhD (Dr. iur, summa cum laude) in public international law from the University of Frankfurt am Main. He frequently publishes on arbitration-related issues and lectures international arbitration and public international law at several universities, including the Europa-Institute of Saarland University, the International Training Centre of the ILO, and the Ecole de Formation du Barreau de Paris (EFB).

Mr John Lowe

John W. Lowe serves as an international arbitrator and mediator. Since beginning this work, he has served as tribunal chairman, member of arbitral tribunals and sole arbitrator in both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations on more than 50 arbitrations. Mr. Lowe has trained as a mediator with both the AAA in the US, CEDR and CMAP in Europe and has handled numerous mediations in Europe. He began his career as a US diplomat (economist) working in Mexico, Washington and Italy where he also worked in private practice. He has worked internationally as General Counsel for telecommunication, industrial and software companies and has served as Chief Compliance Officer for a major freight forwarder. To his arbitration and mediation work, Mr. Lowe brings a wealth of experience having worked on major transactions and disputes around the world.

He has a law degree from George Washington University in Washington D.C. and is a member of the bar in the District of Columbia and Ohio in the US. Mr. Lowe speaks French, Italian and Spanish in addition to his native English. He is a member of the arbitration panels of many institutions in North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Mr Jake Lowther

Jake is a dual-qualified lawyer (Australia & Sweden) working as legal counsel at the SCC Arbitration Institute.

Ms Carol Ludington

Carol Ludington, CPA,CFF,CLP,ACIArb cludington@ludingtonltd.com
Carol Ludington has over thirty years of experience in the areas of commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation and alternative dispute resolution. She has extensive experience in financial and business analysis, including consideration of damages, related to complex commercial and intellectual property disputes as a testifying expert, as a consulting expert and as an arbitrator. She frequently consults regarding alternative dispute resolution and early analysis of damages to facilitate a strategic approach to damages and to facilitate effective dispute resolution.
Over the past thirty years, she has been retained in hundreds of matters, has frequently assisted preparation for trial and arbitration, has testified in numerous bench and jury trials, has testified in domestic and international arbitration hearings and has participated in hot-tubbing. She has served as a sole arbitrator and as a member of arbitral panels for a variety of commercial disputes.
She is a Certified Public Accountant, is Certified in Financial Forensics, is a Certified Licensing Professional, is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, serves on the panel of arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association and has been an arbitrator for the Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot and the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot. She has served on professional committees related to forensics and ethics, and has lectured and written extensively regarding disputes, damages, intellectual property and alternative dispute resolution, including use of experts to facilitate effective dispute resolution.

Mr Michele Angelo Lupoi

I am a full professor of Civil procedural law at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a practicing civil lawyer. I have written extensively in matters of transnational litigation, especially with reference to EU private international law regulations as well as in matters of Italian civil procedure and arbitration law. Many of my publications are available on my www.academia.edu account. I am the Director of a Summer School on Transnational Litigation organized over a week every July by the University of Bologna at Ravenna and I coach the University of Bologn Vis Moot team since 2020 (as well ad the Unibo Pax Moot Team). Everybody is welcome to follow my Linkedin page (where I publish a newsletter called "Di processo civile and ADR"). Another newsletter I edit on Linkedin is called "Transnational litigation pills". I also edit the Leading Cases section in the International Journal of Procedural law, where I collect reports and notes on recent important cases in matters of civil procedure from worldwide.

Mr Alexander Lütgendorf

Dispute resolution / international arbitration lawyer based in Dubai, with a focus on cross-border disputes pertaining to the Middle East and Africa. English and Austrian qualified lawyer. Acts as counsel and arbitrator. In addition to disputes work, I support clients on most aspects of business in the Middle East, including contract, corporate, transactional, construction and regulatory matters. Previously lived and practised law in Vienna, London and Cairo.

Moot alumni and avid participant of the Vis Moot. Former editor in chief of the Vindobona Journal.

Ms Raquel Macedo Moreira

I am a dual qualified lawyer specialised in international business law and construction law. Currently based between London and Milan, I act as lawyer and arbitrator. I also work as a research associate at the King's College Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution in London, and teach at ULB's LL.M. on international business law in Brussels.

Ms Dana MacGrath

Dana MacGrath is an independent arbitrator with more than two decades of experience in international arbitration as an arbitrator, arbitration practitioner, and in-house counsel. She has served as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chair in numerous arbitrations. She joined Arbitra International in August 2022. Prior to becoming a full-time arbitrator, she was an international arbitration practitioner at several global law firms and an investment manager and in-house counsel at a third-party funder. Professor MacGrath serves on the AAA-ICDR Council and co-chairs the AAA Large Complex Case Committee. Previously she served as chair of the New York City Bar Arbitration Committee and on several ICC Commission on Arbitration task forces.

Professor MacGrath has long been a proponent of diversity in arbitration. She served as president of ArbitralWomen for four years (July 2018-June 2022), is a member of the ERA Pledge Steering Committee and co-chairs its US Subcommittee, serves on the Steering Committee of Racial Equality for Arbitration Lawyers (R.E.A.L.) and the Executive Committee of the Equal Representation of Experts (ERE).

She is an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches an international arbitration practicum course. She earned her J.D. from NYU School of Law.

Mr Angus Macinnis

Angus Macinnis is a lawyer in private practice (holding the position of Director of Dispute Resolution) at a boutique commercial firm in Sydney, where he has a broad dispute resolution practice. He is also the Co-chair of the International Trade and Business Committee of the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.

After having coached teams from other Sydney universities in the 13th to 16th Moots, and in the 23rd and 24th Moots, he returned to the fray in the 26th Moot as the coach of the team from the Thomas More Law School at the Australian Catholic University, a role in which he has continued since that time, and is reprising again this year.

Mr Donny Mackinnon

Donny is an experienced and multi-disciplined construction professional: a Chartered Construction Manager, a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a Chartered Arbitrator (qualified in both domestic and international commercial arbitration). He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors and is a Member of the Academy of Experts. He sits as a construction industry arbitrator and adjudicator, is CIOB Accredited in Adjudication and acts as independent expert. He is Chairman of the CIArb Scottish Branch and is listed on the CIArb Approved Faculty List for tutoring and examining on the CIArb Diploma (all modules for International Arbitration, domestic Arbitration and modules 1 to 3 for Construction Adjudication).
Donny has conducted over 100 construction adjudications and many arbitrations. He is a member of the Dispute Resolution Board Federation.
Donny’s independent expert work covers valuation, delay analysis, calculating disruption/lost labour productivity, and standards of workmanship.

Mr Ishaan Madaan

Ishaan Madaan is an International Arbitration Associate with DLA Piper New York. He has a special focus on the intersection of insolvency and arbitration, and founded Arbinsol as a platform to advance thought leadership in the sphere. He is also the co-editor of "Crossroads of Insolvency and Arbitration", a Wolters Kluwer book. Prior to moving to the US in 2019, Ishaan practiced in India for over 7 years as a disputes lawyer. He has also been arbitrating/judging at various national and International Moots for the last 8 years.

Dr Sebastian Mahr

My focus lies on liability claims, insurance litigation, corporate and banking disputes, asset tracing & recovery as well as on international enforcement. Being specialized in both commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings, I have dealt with disputes in a number of sectors, most prominently the banking, insurance, infrastructure and construction sectors.

Dr Artemis Malliaropoulou

Education: LL.B. (University of Athens), LL.M. (London School of Economics), Ph.D. (University of Athens), RS (University of Oxford), VS (Columbia University and Cornell University).

Work experience:
Current role: Assistant Professor/Lecturer at the Hague University of Applied Sciences and legal advisor at Artlaw.
Past work experience:
United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (New York), Council of the EU – Legal Service (Brussels), International Criminal Court (the Hague), Unidroit Institute (Rome), British Institute for International and Comparative Law (London), Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP (London), Shearman & Sterling LLP (Paris), Allen & Overy LLP (Paris), Lazaratos & Partners LLP (Athens), United Nations Development Program (Athens, Bratislava).

Ms Tamara Manasijevic

Tamara Manasijevic is an Attorney at Law with ARP, Vienna. She is admitted in Croatia and, as a registered European lawyer, in Austria.

Tamara acts as counsel, arbitrator and secretary to arbitral tribunals in domestic and international arbitral proceedings, both institutional and ad hoc. The arbitral proceedings she was involved in included in particular energy disputes (gas, electricity, issues related to the liberalisation of the European energy markets), disputes related to construction and engineering projects (in particular under the FIDIC Books), contracts for the supply of goods, distribution agreements, licence agreements, joint ventures, M&A and corporate disputes. Some of these proceedings involved states or state entities as a party.

Tamara is an ICC YAF Regional Representative for the Europe and Russia Chapter and a founding member and Co-Chair of Young Croatian Arbitration Practitioners (YCAP).

Languages spoken: Croatian, English, German

Mr Sergio Mannheimer

Sergio Nelson Mannheimer is a partner at Mannheimer, Perez e Lyra Advogados, one of Brazil's most renowned dispute resolution law firms, since 1992. He specializes in commercial litigation and arbitration and is ranked as a leading individual in these areas by publications such as Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. Mr. Mannheimer is also a former solicitor for the State of Rio de Janeiro (1985-2018). He is co-author of 'New Studies on Arbitration' (FGV, 2014) and 'General Theory of Arbitration" (Forense, 2019) and various articles on arbitration, as well as the editor of the Rio de Janeiro State’s Solicitors’ Law Journal on 'Arbitration Law' (Volume XVII, 2006) and on 'Arbitration in the Public Sector' (Volume XXVI, 2016). He recently chaired the taskforce created to organize the juridical background to regulate arbitration involving the Rio de Janeiro State entities. Mr. Mannheimer also sits as an arbitrator and holds an LL.B from the Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil, and an LL.M from Heidelberg University, Germany.

Mr Yuri Mantilla

Yuri is a senior associate in the international arbitration and public international law practices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he advises and represents States, corporations and non-governmental organisations in inter-State, investor-State, and international commercial arbitration disputes. He is also part of the firm’s Brazil practice. Prior to joining Freshfields, he trained in Geneva with the World Trade Organisation (Legal Affairs Division), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the arbitration group of a leading Swiss law firm.

Website: https://www.freshfields.com/en-gb/contacts/find-a-lawyer/m/mantilla-yuri/

Mr Valentin Marginter

Associate at Baker McKenzie focusing on international arbitration. Alumni of the 26th Vis Moot (Werner Melis Award & 2nd runner up for the Best Memorandum for Claimant).

Miss Marcu Maria

Lawyer in Bucharest Bar Association since February 2004

Ms Anamaria Marin

Ms Marin is a Solicitor - Advocate with Rights of Audience before the Higher Courts of England and Wales . Prior to joining SLCG in Milan she practiced in London specializing in ADR and commercial cross border transactions. She is now part of the International Arbitration Department at SLCG and advises clients in international commercial arbitrations focusing on energy and construction disputes.

Mr Nikola Marku

I was born and raised in the small town in Tivat Montenegro. There I'v finished elementary and high school with the honors.
In Podgorica I have enroled at Law School University of Montenegro in 2011 and I have graduated Law in June 2015 with honors. Since then I have been working in the Law office in Budva where I have been practicing almost every area of law, including commercial law and arbitration.

Important fact is my role in re-establishing the Moot team of Montenegro, three years ago. I wanted to leave some legacy on my senior year at the University of Montenegro, and that year, 2014 I have established competition team for the year 2015 for William C. Vis Moot. Year after I have continued with coaching the Montenegrin team and this year I am doing the same as well among the all obligations that i have in my professional life.

This competition gave me an exceptional experience and it really changed my view for the Law and hard and competitive market in the world.
I will continue with William C. Vis Moot program as far as I can and I hope this tradition will be the long lasting one.

Ms Liz Martins

My name is Liz Martins. I have a law degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where I graduated in November 2021. Now I work as a Lawyer in the dispute resolution practice (litigation and arbitration) of BMA Advogados in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

My first contact with the Vis Moot was in 2019, when I participated as an oralist in the 26th Edition. I was an oralist again in the 27th Edition and, after that, acted as a coach of my university in the 28th and 29th Vis Moots. This year I will be attending the Vis Moot once again as a coach. I have experience of acting as an arbitrator in a couple of Pre-Moots in Brazil, such as the CAM-CCBC São Paulo Pre-Moot and the Rio Pre-Moot.

Ms Olha Martynevych

International dispute resolution associate with the New York office of Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP.

Ms Lejla Masic

Has been working three years in Notary Public office in Brcko district as legal intern. In 2020 and 2021 participated in Vis Moot Court as team leader and oralist. In 2022 coach of University of Tuzla Faculty of Law.
Besides beeing Vis Moot coach beeing coach for all extracurricular activities, primary national and regional debate competitions, ICC-MCC, Media Law Competition and other national and regional moot court competitions in a field of civil law, criminal law and media law as well.

Mr Juan Ignacio Massun

Juan works as Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in Buenos Aires and is the Deputy PCA Representative in the Argentine Republic. He obtained his law degree from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) after spending a semester at the University of Texas. He has represented UBA at the Vis Moot as a student on two occasions, including in 2016 when UBA won the “Frederic Eisemann Award” for its first place at the oral rounds in Vienna.

Mrs Cristina Mastrobuono

Cristina M. Wagner Mastrobuono FCIArb is an arbitrator and legal consultant with a large experience in complex contracts. She is a JD from Universidade de São Paulo, is specialized in corporate law at FGV and holds an LLM degree from the University of Chicago. For more than 15 years she advised the Government of the State of São Paulo, in Brazil, in areas as concessions and Public-Private Partnerships, privatizations, Corporate law (in state owned companies) and Finance & Taxes. She acts as arbitrator in proceedings related to the infrastructure sector before ICC, CAM-CCBC, CAM, CIESP, and in Dispute Boards. She is a member of the Board of InfraWomen Brazil, is a Fellow of Ciarb and is the vice-chair of the Ciarb Brazil Branch.
Cristina is brazilian and german, fluent in Portuguese, English and German, with good knowledge in Spanish.

Ms Eleonora Mateina

Ms Luana Matoso

Luana de Lima Matoso, LL.M. (Hamburg) is a qualified Brazilian lawyer and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Hamburg. Her main study area is International Civil Procedure Law, more specifically jurisdiction agreements. In addition, she works as a Research Assistant at the Center for International Dispute Resolution (CIDR) from the Bucerius Law School, under supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Kröll.

Luana has studied law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, with academic stays at the University of Angers, in France, and at the Humboldt University of Berlin, in Germany. She continued her studies at the University of Hamburg, where she completed a LL.M. degree in Private International Law with greatest honor (summa cum laude). Her LL.M. degree was focused on International Arbitration and she wrote her thesis about breach of arbitration agreements.

Luana works in Portuguese, English, French and German.

Mr Farzad Mazhary

Farzad Mazhary obtained a law degree from the Law Faculty of Shahid Beheshti of Iran. He obtained her LL.M. degree in International Trade Law at the University of Tehran. Her area of interest is international commercial and arbitration and corporate law. He is Legal Manager at Diginext (Investment company of Digikala E-commerce group. Digikala Group's approach has been to complete the value creation chain for Iran's digital economy).
He has participated at the Willem C. Vis Moot (28th) as a team member, at the Willem C. Vis Moot (29th) as a coach of University of Tehran, at the Willem C. Vis Moot (31th) as a coach of the UNESCO CHPRD Shahid Beheshti University team and also as an arbitrator in the Willem C. Vis Moot (30th, 31th).

Ms Bianca McDonnell

Bianca McDonnell is an Associate at White & Case LLP in the International Arbitration Practice in Madrid. Admitted in Australia and New York, Bianca focuses her practice on investment arbitration proceedings under the ICSID rules, complex commercial arbitrations and construction proceedings. Prior to joining White & Case Bianca worked for Juan Fernandez-Armesto where she acted as assistant and secretary to the tribunal, specialising in investment arbitrations. She works in both Spanish and English.

Bianca has acted as a voluntary Expert Advisor for the U.S. Government's Department of Commerce's Commercial Law Development Program, where she has trained teams from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan for the Vis Moot.

Prof Dr Mary-Rose McCue McGuire

Mary-Rose holds law degrees from the Vienna University School of Law (1999) and the University of Göttingen (2002) as well as a doctoral degree from the University of Göttingen (2004). She was apponted as full professor for Private Law, European and International Procedure an IP Law University of Mannheim (2010), before she transferred to the University of Osnabrueck, where she holds a Chair for Private Law, IP law and German and International Civil Procedure. Her reaserach focusses on licence contract law, patent law, trade secrets and cross border litigation (including FRAND disputes) in state courts and arbitration.

Ms Emily McMurtry

Emily is a lawyer and arbitrator with the Ottawa (Canada) office of Dentons Canada LLP. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, where she acts on various arbitration matters (international and domestic), construction disputes, shareholder litigations, leasing matters, real estate development matters and professional negligence claims. In her arbitration practice, Emily has represented clients in domestic and international disputes involving product liability claims, mining industry agreements and construction disputes. She has experience under several institutional rulesets, including the ICC, ICDR, CIArb, JAMS, and ADRIC. An award-winning speaker, Emily won top honours at the Foreign Direct Investment Moot in Buenos Aires Argentina in November 2016. She then went on to compete in and win the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in 2017 with the University of Ottawa. In 2018, she competed with the University of Ottawa’s Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team, winning the national championship.

Emily was appointed to the Fruit and Vegetable Dispute Resolution Corporation’s (“DRC”) roster of arbitrators in January 2022, after having completed the DRC’s Arbitrator Training Course. As an arbitrator for the DRC, Emily decides international commercial disputes arising between DRC members in relation to transactions for fresh produce in North America.

Dr Alice Meissner

Dr. Alice Meissner has been practising law since 2009 and is a Partner of Fieldfisher (Vienna) and Head of the Austrian Dispute Resolution Team. She is a dual admitted attorney with the Vienna and Munich Bar Association and a listed arbitrator with various institutions, Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (FHKIArb) and Chair of the European Chinese Arbitrators Association. Ms Meissner has been working in corporate and dispute resolution teams with well-known international law firms. She has a well-established track record in in representing multinational clients in international arbitration proceedings under the ICC Rules of Arbitration, the Vienna Rules (VIAC) and the CIETAC Rules of Arbitration. She acted as arbitrator in various proceedings, most recently as court-appointed by the ICC Court as sole arbitrator. Further, she advises Nivalion AG, a Swiss litigation finance provider as an Independent Senior Advisor.

She holds a PhD-degree from the University of Vienna as well as a degree in law (Dipl. iur) from the University of Hamburg. Dr. Meissner passed both of her German state examinations with distinction. Ms Meissner, born in Hong Kong, is of German-Chinese origin. She speaks fluently English, German and Cantonese (Chinese).

Mr Diego Melendez

For more than 5 years, I worked as an associate in the litigation and arbitration team of Arias Law, a regional Central American law firm. There, I acted as counsel in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, mostly in construction disputes. I also acted as counsel in litigation proceedings regarding civil, commercial, administrative, criminal, and constitutional matters.

During my master’s at Humboldt University of Berlin, my study focused on international arbitration, investment law, and private international law. In addition to my studies, I also worked as an intern for two international arbitration firms. In Wagner Arbitration I assisted in investment and commercial arbitration proceedings, and in Borris Hennecke Kneisel I assisted the arbitral tribunal in complex commercial disputes related to cross-border insolvency, post-M&A, and shareholder agreements.

Also, it is noteworthy to mention that I participated in the “Moot Court Madrid”, where I had the opportunity to represent El Salvador in the years 2015 and 2016. Our team was awarded with second place in the 2016 competition.

Mr Pedro Augusto Mendes

Pedro Augusto Mendes is a Brazilian qualified Lawyer based at São Paulo and Amazonas, currently working with International Arbitration in Paris. He holds a Master Degree from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas in Litigation, Arbitration and ADR after an “assez bien” results at the D.S.U in French Administrative Law also at Paris II. He is also post-graduated in International Law and Human Rights at Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and holds a bachelor degree in Law from the Federal Amazonas University (Brazil).

Professor Bianca Mendes Pereira Richter Boscatto

Professor of Law - Mackenzie Presbyterian University - São Paulo, Brazil. Lawyer. Ph.D. in Law (University of São Paulo). Visiting Scholar at Syracuse University, College of Law - 2022. Arbitrator - CAMES (Brazil). LLM candidate - University of Vienna.

Ms Viviana Mendez

I am an Associate in White & Case’s New York office (temporarily seconded in London), and a member of the Firm’s International Arbitration Group.

My practice consists of representing clients in international commercial, construction, and investment treaty arbitrations. I have experience acting in arbitrations concerning natural resources, mining, power, infrastructure, renewable energy, and pensions.

I also advise clients on various pro bono matters relating to refugee and asylum work, international criminal law, and human rights. I was part of a team that successfully represented ten victims in an Inter-American Court of Human Rights case against Venezuela in which the Court awarded compensation in excess of US$ 1,000,000 to the victims’ family members.

I hold an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and a J.D. from the University of Costa Rica.

I am a qualified attorney in the State of New York and Costa Rica (my home country). I speak Spanish, English, and French. I have conversational knowledge of Portuguese, and Italian.

Dr Kathryn Mercer

Professor of Law at case western reserve university school of law. Teaching courses in dispute reselution, arbitration, and mediation.

Ms Dione Meruane Osorio

I am a chilean lawyer, graduated from the University of Chile, LLM in International Law from the University of Heidelberg, LLM Candidate in Business Law from the Sorbonne University Paris 1. I have concentrated my career in Arbitration and Litigation, working in several law firms in Chile and I am currently working as an independent lawyer representing clients in my country. In addition, I am a professor of Procedural Law at Andrés Bello University in Chile. I have participated in several moot courts, as a coach, and as an arbitrator. I am a coach of the University of Chile team for the FDI Moot and part of the organizing committee of the International Commercial Arbitration Competition organized by the University of Buenos Aires.

Prof Dr Zlatan Meskic

Zlatan Meškić received his integrated bachelor-LL.M and his PhD from the University of Vienna, Faculty of Law. His mother tongue is Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, speaks and writes German and English fluently, basic skills in French.
He is practicing international commercial arbitration (construction, M&A under ICC Rules; Rules of the Arbitration Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina). He is on the list of arbitrators of the Foreign Trade Chamber Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since 2019 Full Professor at the College of Law, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh. Since 2008 professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Zenica. Judicial practice in court Bezirksgericht Floridsdorf and Research assistant at the LBI für Europarecht (Vienna), prof. dr. Gerte Reichelt (2007-2008).
Member of the editorial board of several law journals including "Zeitschrift für europarechtliche Studien (ZeuS) and editor-in-chief of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (Springer). Scholarship holder from the MPI for foreign and private international law (Hamburg, 2011 and 2017). Visiting professor at the University of Saarbrücken, University of Pittsburgh. Author of six books and over 60 articles. Publication on Conflicts of Law, International Commercial Arbitration and EU Law. Head coach of the Vis moot team University of Zenica 2014-2019, now Prince Sultan University in Riyadh.

Prof Olaf Meyer

Olaf is Professor of Contract Law at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. Having obtained a Master's degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Münster, he previously held a position as lecturer at Bremen University and was visiting professor at the universities of Berlin, Mannheim, Münster and Hamburg. He is also a regular guest lecturer at foreign universities and is often invited to speak at international events.
His publications cover a wide range of topics from international commercial law and arbitration to private international law, comparative law and anti-corruption. Recently, Olaf edited the comparative guide on "Public Policy and Private International Law" (Edward Elgar 2022).
As co-director of Frankfurt's Reseach Lab on Law and applied Technologies (ReLLaTe), Olaf also closely follows the latest developments in legal tech and is currently pursuing a major reseach project on robo-justice and smart contracts.

Ms Karoline Meyer-Ravenstein

Karoline Meyer-Ravenstein participated in the Vis Moot in 2016/17 for the team of the University of Göttingen. The year after she coached the new team of her university. She recently passed her first state law examination and is now working as a research assistant at KPMG Law in Hanover where she is mainly working in the field of litigation.

Ms Jeanne Michel

Experience:
- Legal Counsel at SBM Inc.

Formation:
- Master II, International Business Law, University Sophia Antipolis, Nice France.
- Master I, International Law , Catholics University Jean-Paul II, Lublin Poland
- Bachelor, University de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse France

Mrs Kara Michels

Kara is an intellectual property litigator in Chicago, Illinois, USA and an associate attorney at the law firm of Neal Gerber Eisenberg LLP. In addition to her legal practice, Kara is a part-time adjunct professor at Loyola University of Chicago where she teaches legal writing and coaches Loyola's Vienna Vis Moot team. Kara is also a volunteer board member for Ms. JD, a non-profit organization that provides programming, guidance, and community for women law students and early career women attorneys.

Mr Lucas Mies

Education:
Since Oct. 2020: LLM candidate at University of Pennsyvania Carey Law School (Philadelphia, United States), holder of the Kübler Scholarship
Apr. 2014 to Nov. 2019: Studies of law at Goethe University Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)
May 2015 to Apr. 2016: Participation in the 23th Willem C. Vis Moot Court

Work experience:
Sep. 2020 to Jan. 2021: Research assistant at Wendelstein LLP (Frankfurt, Germany)
July 2019 to Aug. 2020: Policy analyst at the German Federal Parliament, Thomas Heilmann MdB (Berlin, Germany)
Oct. 2018 to Aug. 2019: Tutor at Goethe University Frankfurt for Civil Law and Legal and Constitional History (Frankfurt, Germany)
Oct. 2017 to Oct. 2018: Student assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Manfred Wandt, Goethe University Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)
July 2017 to Aug. 2018: Research assistant at WilmerHale (Frankfurt, Germany)
May 2016 to June 2017: Research assistant at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek (Frankfurt, Germany)

Extracurriculars:
- Coach for Goethe University Frankfurt's teams for the 24th, 25th and 27th Willem C. Vis Moot Court
- Former President of the Frankfurt Moot Alumni Association e.V., president and treasurer of the Frankfurt Moot Alumni Assocation e.V.

Mr Lucas Mies

I participated myself in the 23rd Edition of the Vis Moot for the Goethe University Frankfurt in 2015/2016. Subsequently, I coached the Vis Moot Team of my Alma Mater for the 24th, 25th and 27th edition of the competition. I completed my legal studies in 2019 and obtained an LL.M. at the Unversity of Pennsylvania in 2022.

Mr Pratyush Miglani

I am an India-qualified lawyer with more than 13 years of experience in commercial litigation and arbitration. I started my law firm, MVAC Advocates & Consultants in 2015 and have since led the Dispute Resolution portfolio of the same. The key areas of my practice include international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, and commercial litigation. Over the years, I have represented a large number of clients before international arbitral institutions such as the SIAC, ICC, DIAC, etc. and before ad hoc tribunals constituted in India and abroad. I also served as a panel member of the Union of India before the Delhi High Court for 3 years. My areas of interest include cross-border disputes, taxation, and insolvency laws. I also regularly advise domestic and international non-profits in their structuring, tax compliance and operations in collaboration with a Thomson Reuters Foundation. In the last few years, I have arbitrated several rounds of Vis Pre Moots organised here in India as well as unofficially guided numerous teams participating in Vis Vienna/ Hong Kong, including those of the interns who have worked at my office.

Prof Alberto Miglio

Alberto Miglio is Associate Professor of European Union Law at the University of Turin and currently Faculty Member of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (Georgetown University) in London, where he taught Transnational Commercial Litigation and Arbitration in the Fall semester. Alberto holds a law degree from the University of Turin, an LL.M. from the College of Europe (Bruges) and a PhD from the University of Milan-Bicocca. His research spans various areas of European Union Law, including EU private international law.
Alberto participated as a student in the 16th and 17th Moot and has been coaching the University of Turin team since the 21st Moot. He has also acted as arbitrator since the 23rd Moot. His moot court experience includes coaching teams for the Concours International d'Arbitrage de Paris (2012-2016) and the European Law Moot Court Competition (2012-2023). In the latter he currently acts as a judge.

Ms Bara Mika

During her studies, Bara Mika participated in several moot courts, including the Vis Moot (speaker in the elimination rounds) and FDI. She served as a coach for the Charles University Vis Moot team for five years and remains active in the Vis Moot community. Bara has practical experience in international arbitration gained as a junior lawyer/associate at Clifford Chance. Since 2019, she has been a post-graduate student at the Department of International Private Law at Charles University.

Ms Parandzem Mikayelyan

Parandzem is currently working as Senior Specialist in International Arbitration and in other international disputes at the Prime Minister Office of the Republic of Armenia. She contributes to the representation of state interests in both commercial and investment treaty arbitration. Previously, she worked as Legal Adviser at Grant Thornton Armenia where she provided legal consulting to local and foreign businesses.
Parandzem holds an LL.M. with distinction in Investment Treaty Arbitration from Uppsala University, Sweden. She has also completed the double Master’s degree program in International Business Law of the French University of Armenia and Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France.
Parandzem has acted as Arbitrator at the 27th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Judge Jim Miller

I served as a Colorado trial judge for twelve years. I have maintained an arbitration and mediation practice for eighteen years, first with JAMS and now with my own firm, Jim Miller Dispute Resolution. I am a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of arbitrators and I am available to arbitrate and mediate cases throughout the United States and internationally.

Mr Nicolò Minella

I am an associate at ArbLit (Milan). I am regularly involved in commercial and investment arbitrations under different arbitration rules and applicable laws. Before joining ArbLit, I worked in the international arbitration department of a law firm in Paris.

I graduated from the School of Law of Bocconi University (Milan) in 2019. During my academic path I have spent some periods abroad, including a semester at the George Washington University, in Washington DC. I participated to the 26th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, acting as oralist on the procedural issues.

Mr Girish Mishra

Girish K Mishra is a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, U.K. (FCIArb.); Fellow of Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators, Malaysia; Fellow of Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand (FAMINZ-Arb./Med.); Member-Indian Council of Arbitrators (ICA), New Delhi; Member, LAWASIA; Member, Bar Council of Delhi (Enrolment No. D/1151/R-98); Member NCLT & NCLAT Bar: NCLTATBA/430/2019; Member, Delhi High Court Bar Association (No. 6099/02; Member, Delhi Bar Association (No. G-482); Panel Arbitrator with SFCA (SCOPE Forum of Conciliation and Arbitration, New Delhi); Panel: The National Small Industries Corporation Ltd. (A Government of India Enterprise). He has got 20 years (and continuing) of law practice with specialization in Arbitration, Mediation and Litigation field. I have been handling high stake arbitration disputes before the Hon’ble Arbitration Tribunals which include the retired Hon’ble Judges of Supreme Court of India and retired Chief Justice/Judges of High Courts constituting the arbitration panel. He has handled number of Construction arbitration matters and litigations.

Mrs ANGELA MITA - BACIU

ANGELA MITA – BACIU, PhD - academic and professional practitioner - Professor in Private International, International Commercial and Competition Law.

Studied law at the “Al.I.Cuza” University of IASI. After law school she was admitted for PhD degree. Research on the field of International Commercial Law, International Private Law. Visiting fellow at UNIDROIT Rome, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, T.M.C. ASSER INSTITUTE, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Doctoral thesis was on the law applicable on international contracts.
She’s a practicing lawyer, member of the Bar Association of Iasi, Romania, also arbitrator - Court of International Commercial Arbitration of Iasi, Romania.
She participated as legal academics and practitioners, arbitrating in the competition - Willem C Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Competition in Hong Kong, ample opportunities to discuss with her ideas and visions relating to teaching, research, and legal practice.

CV demonstrates an outstanding academic, with a level of expertise in international law. Fluent in four languages and sustaining an up-to-date knowledge in international law in general, and international commercial law and private international law in particular, her combined teaching, research and professional activities ensure a high-level, current expertise in a challenging and ever-changing field.

Mr Utsav Mitra

A corporate lawyer based out of Mumbai, India. Currently working at Khaitan & Co., in the M&A and private equity practice group. An alumni of the Vis Moot (both Hong Kong and Vienna).

Ms Eleonora Mkrtchyan

Lawyer, Attorney in the Republic of Armenia, Deputy Head of Legal Department at the Central Bank of Armenia, University of Cambridge LL.M, French University of Armenia and Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Bachelor of Laws

Dr Afsaneh Modanlou

I am an attorney at law based in Tehran - Iran. I have practiced law for over 15 years mainly in the field of Private law, real estate and international contracts and have played an active role in Iran - US tribunal cases in 2000s. I have obtained my PhD in Private and Shariah Law.
I believe in arbitration as a greatly effective instrument in dispute settlement and want to arbitrate in Iran and the MENA region.

Dr Ali Moghaddam Abrishami

PhD from Queen Mary, University of London
Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York City and at Cambridge University
Teaching LLM in international trade law at King's College London from 2011 until 2014
Currently, Assistant Professor at Faculty of Law, Allameh Tabatabi University (ATU), Tehran
ATU Coach in Vis Moot

Ms zahra mohajeri

Lawyer and LLM graduated

Ms Niloufar Mohammadi

Bachelor of Laws in the University of Tehran 2012-2016
LL.M. in International Trade and Economic Law in the University of Tehran 2016-2019
Participated in VIS Moot in 2018 and 2019
Current situation: Legal Expert at the Securities and Exchange Organization of I.R. Iran

Mr Hosein Mohebi

I have worked in Arbitration Center of Iran Chamber (ACIC) since 2008 to 2016 in two capacities; legal advisor and supervisor of education and research department.
I have been engaged in many arbitration case domestic and international. I am expert in ADR solutions commonly used in complex commercial disputes, namely arbitration, adjudication and mediation.
I have organised and managed many arbitration and dispute resolution seminars and workshops in Iran.
I am a member of young arbitrator of ACIC.
In July 2016, I have been appointed as Co-Registrar in IUSCT which is one the oldest investment arbitration Tribunal in The Hague.

Dr Florian Mohs

Florian Mohs is a partner of Pestalozzi's Litigation & Arbitration group in Zurich.
His practice focuses on international commercial dispute resolution by arbitration and litigation. Florian handles a wide range of commercial disputes. He has broad experience advising in the area of international trade, particularly relating to commodities trading in minerals, metals and energy sources, and business insight gained from his secondment to a major international commodities trader.
Florian is an expert on the United Nations Convention for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). He is a contributor to the leading commentary in the field and speaks and publishes regularly on the CISG, as well as on litigation and arbitration topics.
Florian is trained in both civil and common law jurisdictions and holds law degrees from Switzerland (Dr. iur., summa cum laude, University of Basel, 2005), New Zealand (LL.M., with distinction, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006), and Germany (First State Exam, Baden-Württemberg, 2002, concluding his legal studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg). Florian was admitted to the Swiss Bar in 2008.

Ms Martina Molin

I am a Verona Law school Graduate and have been coaching the Verona Law school Team since 2020. Now I work as an underwriter at AIG.

Mr Abbas Moradi

Abbas Moradi is an attorney at law at Iran Central Bar Association with expertise in the Real estate and construction Law, has been an in-house legal counsel since 2015, was appointed as a Board Member as well as the Head of Arbitration Department of Alireza Moradi Law Firm since 2019, also a legal advisor to Iranian Theater Forum.

Dr Alireza Moradi

Who has a passionate and devoted character. Ambitious, outgoing, well-organized and motivated. Every day, I am trying to learn more about American Contract Laws, Arbitration, and dispute resolution. I am going to study ADR at a top common law university and become an arbitrator in the MENA Region.
Experience in Private laws, Real estate, and Contracts as an attorney at law.

Dr Ruediger Morbach

Ruediger Morbach is an associate in King & Spalding's Frankfurt office and a member of the firm’s Trial and Global Disputes Group. He holds a binational Ph.D. degree of the University of Wuerzburg and the Université Paris II-Panthéon-Assas. His doctoral thesis on Public Competition Policy in International Arbitration was awarded with the 2022 “Prix des Affaires” of the Franco-German University. He studied law at the University of Tuebingen (Germany) and at Aix-Marseille University (France), where he obtained the maîtrise en droit. He has participated in the Vis Moot in the 2010/2011 edition and has been coaching the team of the University of Wuerzburg from 2016 to 2019.

Mr Rhys Morgan

Rhys Morgan is an associate in the London office of Mayer Brown's International Arbitration practice. Rhys's practice focuses on representing parties in cross-border, high-end disputes involving parties and applicable laws from a wide-range of jurisdictions, such as: China, Dubai, France, Italy, Jordan, Korea, Lithuania, Panama, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Spain, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, the United States and the UAE.

In respect of investment treaty arbitration and public international law, Rhys represents foreign investors, companies and sovereign states in disputes before ICSID and under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.

Rhys's work includes representing parties in engineering & construction disputes, before Dispute Boards and major arbitral institutions, such as the ICC, and LCIA. He has particular experience with FIDIC forms of contract, having acted in multi-billion construction disputes involving maritime projects, hydroelectric facilities, solar power plants and other infrastructure and superstructure projects.

Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Rhys worked in corporate finance at PE boutique Hawkpoint, as a strategy consultant at McKinsey, as an independent consultant to a number of start-ups and corporates, and as a regulatory policy analyst at the Paris offices of the OECD. Rhys has also spent six months seconded to Beazley’s M&A underwriting team.

Professor Margaret Moses

Professor Moses is Professor of Law and Director of International Programs, Loyola University Chicago. A scholar in the field of international commercial arbitration, the third edition of her treatise on international commercial arbitration was published in March 2017 by Cambridge University Press. She has participated as an arbitrator or an advocate in arbitrations under the auspices of the ICC Court of Arbitration and the AAA International Centre for Dispute Resolution, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations. Additional areas of interest and research include international business transactions and international trade finance. Professor Moses heads Loyola Chicago’s Vis Moot program, which sends students to compete in both Vienna and Hong Kong. Professor Moses' articles can be found at https:www.ssrn.com/author=397500

Dr Olivier Mosimann

Olivier Mosimann is a partner at Kellerhals Carrard, one of the largest and leading law firms in Switzerland. He co-chairs the firm’s Arbitration Practice Group and specializes in international commercial arbitration and commercial litigation. He has acted as counsel in numerous arbitration proceedings conducted under institutional rules (including ICC and Swiss Rules) as well as in ad hoc proceedings, involving various sectors (including pharmaceutical, chemical, high-tech, energy, construction, consumer goods, financial-service, defense and sport sectors) and concerning diverse legal fields (including sales, joint ventures, construction, distribution, corporate, M&A, IP/IT, public procurement, competition and financing). Olivier has acted as counsel for parties from around the world in arbitrations involving companies, individuals, states and state-owned entities, and he is used to handling complex cases. He also sits as arbitrator (presiding, sole and co-arbitrator) and acts as legal expert.

Olivier is co-chair of Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)'s Local Group Basel. From 2017-2020 he was co-chair of ASA below 40 and regional coordinator of DIS40 Zurich, a regional below-40 group of the German Arbitration Institution.

Professor Denis Mouralis

Denis Mouralis is full professor of law at Aix Marseille University (France). He holds a LL.B and a PhD in law from Paul Cézanne University (France) and a LL.M from McGill University (Canada). He specializes in arbitration law, international disputes resolution, international economic and business law, and international contracts. He publishes and teaches regularly in these fields, in France and abroad. Denis is also an attorney at the Paris Bar, and counsel of the Centre for Mediation and Arbitration of Paris (CMAP) and regularly takes part in international arbitral proceedings, as counsel, arbitrator or presiding arbitrator. He is a member of several professional and academic organisations, such as the Centre of Economic Law (Aix Marseille University), the ICC Institute of World Business Law, the Dutch Arbitration Association, the French Arbitration Committee, and the French Society of Air and Space Law. His mother tongue is French and he speaks English fluently.

Ms Zahra Mousavi

Zahra Mousavi joined the International Bachelor of Law Program of the Hague University of Applied Sciences in 2011. She is a member of the Arbitration Centre of the Iran Chamber (ACIC). She holds two Master of Laws degrees in EU Law and Public International Law. She was granted Hijmansbeurs 2011-2012 for her research at University of Amsterdam. Before joining the Faculty, Ms. Mousavi worked for a number of years as a staff member of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, and additionally acted as legal assistant in some ad hoc international arbitrations. Earlier still and when in Iran, she worked as a member of different panels, among them, one dealing with the Iranian Cases before the UNCC, and the other in charge of processing the payment of compensation paid by the US in part settlement of the Aerial Incident Case of 1988 brought by Iran before the ICJ. She is the author and co-author of a number of articles in learned law journals, and the co-translator of a major textbook in ICL.

Ms Zakiyeh Sadat Mousavi Moghadam

I am a legal manager in a trading company and act as in-house counsel. I have done my LLM in Ankara Turkey and work as legal and contractual manager for over 5 years.

Ms Ameneh Mozouni

Ameneh is an LL.M. student at the Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran. She completed a bachelor of law at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran. Her chief interests are commercial and investment arbitration, and international business transactions. She has participated in the FDI Moot 2020 as a team member (1/16 Final). Furthermore, she has served as an arbitrator in FDI Moot 2021 and 4th TRAC Vis Pre-Moot.

Ms Nour Mseddi

I have a bachelor degree in private Tunisian Law and a Master degree in Common law. On top of that, I am currently a PhD candidate.
I work as a junior Associate at Houerbi Law firm and I am also an adjunct professor at the Faculty of legal, political and social sciences of Tunis.
I have been involved in the Vis Moot for 4 years. I particiapted originally in 2019 and I even since I have been coaching the Université de Carthage Team for 3 years.

Mr Maximilian Albert Müller

Mag. Maximilian Albert Müller, LL.M., is an Attorney-at-Law in the Dispute Resolution Team of Pitkowitz & Partners. His practice focuses on out-of-court dispute resolution as well as representation in judicial and arbitration proceedings. Maximilian also has broad expertise in contract law and has advised on numerous finance transactions.
He passed the Austrian Bar Exam with distinction and holds law degrees from the University of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne (LL.M. with distinction cum laude) and the University of Vienna (Mag.iur.).

Prof Dr Michael F. Müller

Born in 1981; 2002–2008 studies of law and additional qualification in economics, Bayreuth; 2008–2010 research assistant, Bayreuth; 2010–2011 LL.M.-studies, Austin (Texas); 2011 doctoral degree (doctoral thesis “Financial Instruments in Rome I Regulation”), Bayreuth; 2011-2013 trainee lawyer, Berlin and Munich; 2014-2018 research assistant, Bayreuth; 2019 postdoctoral lecture qualification (habilitation treatise "Small and Medium Enterprises in Private Law"); 2018-2022 visiting professor, Erlangen, Bayreuth, Potsdam, Jena and Bonn. 2022- professor for civil law and commercial law at SFU Vienna, Austria. As of March 1, 2023, professor for civil law, private international law and civil procedure at FSU Jena, Germany.

Ms Yulia Mullina

Yulia has been serving as the Executive Administrator of the Russian Arbitration Center since 2019. Prior to that, Yulia had worked on this project since its very beginning in 2016. Yulia is experienced in both organizing and arbitrating moot competitions, including Vis. Now she is heading the organizing committee of the Moscow Vis Pre-Moot. Besides, she has a master degree in private law and now works on the PhD project in the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Ms Leli Mumladze

Leli Mumladze – Member of the IliaUni Moot Court Club Advisory Board and Coach of Ilia State University Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Team.
Ms Mumladze is the graduate of Tbilisi State University Law School and also has obtained the Master’s degree in Private (Business)Law at Ilia State University.
Currently, Leli is working as a Legal Counsellor in the framework of the project of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
She participated in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in 2018.

Mr Alan Nadirov

Contender at Vis Moot 2018;
Gradutate from the ICAL Program, Stockholm University, 2022;
Former Associate at Mannheimer Swarlting (Moscow/Stockholm) (2018-2022)
Currently - Junior Asscociate at Peter & Kim, Geneva (2022 - present)

Miss Lilit Nagapetyan

Lilit Nagapetyan is a Disputes Associate at Norton Rose Fulbright, and is also a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London. Her doctoral research is in the field of corruption and other types of illegality in international arbitration. She is a qualified lawyer and a certified forensic accountant and specialises in commercial disputes, including cross-border litigation and international arbitrations. She has also worked on a number of fraud and financial crime investigations which have involved a variety of international locations. Lilit is an ex-Vis moot participant and a Martin Domke Honourable Mention speaker and has also served as an arbitrator in various pre-moots.

Mr Ali Naimi Zaker

The Chair to ZakVocates, a boutique firm based in Tehran.
President at Ray Arbitration, the first Iranian Inst. of health tourism arbitration.
I have been a member to the first Iranian Vis Moot team and now, I do arbitration and coaching teams to Vis Moot in Vienna.

Mr Kevin Nash

As Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Kevin leads the SIAC Secretariat in the provision of case management services. For more than a decade, Kevin has overseen the administration of thousands of international cases under all versions of the SIAC Rules and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Under the Singapore International Arbitration Act 1994, Kevin is gazetted as an appointing authority, serves as the statutory taxation authority, and is empowered to authenticate and certify awards and arbitration agreements.

Kevin is listed by Who’s Who Legal as a Global Leader and National Leader for Southeast Asia where he is recognised as ‘the most knowledgeable person as to the practice, ecosystem and DNA of international arbitration in Singapore’ and that ‘nobody knows more about arbitration in Singapore’ Described as a ‘rock star of arbitration’ who is ‘without equal in the region’ and ‘in a league of how own’, peers and clients say that he is ‘excellent on procedure and substance’ and ‘a calm presence and a safe pair of hands for the most complex matters’.

Kevin is qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor with the Law Society of Ontario.

Mrs Maria Luiza Negreiros d'Assunção

Maria Luiza is a Brazilian-qualified lawyer and an International Dispute Resolution (IDR) Master of Laws (LL.M) Candidate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has work experience as an assistant to a brazilian-based arbitrator, with focus on practice areas such as Public-Private Partnerships and Concessions.

Ms Elena Neidhart

Ms Elena Neidhart currently acts as Senior Counsel in the dispute resolution team of Philip Morris International (Lausanne, Switzerland). She focuses on international commercial arbitration and litigation before various jurisdictions. Her prior experience includes, inter alia, over 16 years in top
rated law firms. She specialises in complex international commercial contracts, including agency
and distribution, joint ventures, energy and infrastructure, post- M&A disputes, automotive,
chemicals, health and life sciences, luxury goods, tobacco, construction and international trade.

Mr Timothy Nelson

Experienced advocate in international commercial and investment disputes, including arbitration before ICSID, ICC, ICDR-AAA, LCIA. JAMS, SIAC, SCC, HKIAC and PCA/UNCITRAL tribunals. Lead counsel in wide variety of arbitration disputes -- oil & gas/LNG, solar/renewables, nuclear, banking, M&A, telecommunications/satellites, private equity, hotel/hospitality, tax indemnities, retail and sports/motor racing. Has argued numerous large Bilateral Investment Treaty/Energy Charter Treaty arbitrations within ICSID and the PCA involving expropriation and allegedly unfair investor treatment by host states – several involving complex damages quantification issues. Has handled disputes involving the CISG as well as the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Also acts as counsel for private companies and sovereigns in U.S. cross-border litigation, sovereign bond and arbitral award enforcement disputes under the New York Convention and ICSID Convention (including cases involving purported EU law defenses to enforcement) – as well as cases involving the Hague Conventions on Service and Evidence, the Alien Tort Claims Act, Anti-Terrorism Act, Helms-Burton Act, "Section 1782" (cross-border discovery), letters rogatory and diplomatic/consular immunity. Experienced also in cases involving alleged misappropriation of artwork and cultural artefacts. Co-editor of Take the Witness: Cross-Examination in International Arbitration (2d ed. 2019). Council Member, Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.

Ms Fernanda Nemr

Arbitration associate at Muriel Advogados in São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated from the University of São Paulo (2019) and specialized in energy disputes at the Brazilian Institute of Energy Law (2022). Participated in the 26th and 27th Vis Moots as a speaker, and is currently a coach for the University of São Paulo's Vis Moot team. Researcher at the University of São Paulo's Arbitration Research Center. Head coordinator and founder of the Arbitation Research and Studies Group at the University of São Paulo. Participated in the Brazilian Arbitration Competition as a mootie and a coach. Participated in international public law and human rights moot court competitions (Price Media Law, Nelson Mandela World Human Rights, Jessup).

Mr Arman Nersisyan

Mr. Nersisyan is holding a Master degree of Laws from the American University of Armenia. The topic of his master paper is “Whether the CISG is applicable to the validity of the arbitration agreements”. Currently he is working in “PHILIN AM” Consulting as a Legal Counsel. Competed in the 29th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration moot as a AUA team member. Active researcher of contemporary international arbitration.
This year he is a Co-couch of the American University of Armenia Vis Moot team.

Dr Harry Nettlau

Dr. Harry Nettlau is counsel in the German litigation and arbitration practice group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Frankfurt, Germany. His practice focuses on domestic and international litigation and arbitration. He has acted as counsel to both claimants and respondents in a wide variety of commercial litigations and arbitrations before various courts and leading arbitral institutions, often with a multi-jurisdictional angle.
Harry studied law at Bucerius Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law and the Duke University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in Germany and New York.
Harry is a Country Reporter (Germany) for the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA). He regularly publishes and lectures in the field of international commercial arbitration.
Best Lawyers recognized Harry among Ones to Watch in the fields of international arbitration, arbitration and mediation, and litigation.
As a student, Harry participated in the 16th Vis Moot.
For more information, please visit https://www.willkie.com/professionals/n/nettlau-harry

Mr Per Neuburger

American citizen, working and living in Austria. Graduate of LLB Global Law Tilburg University and LLM in U.S. Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently Counsel at OBLIN Attorneys at Law in Vienna, Austria, focusing on international commercial arbitration.

Mr Eric Ng

Deputy Secretary General of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre

Ms Sue Ng

Sue Ng is an associate in Freshfields Vienna and a member of the firm's dispute resolution practice group.

Sue is admitted as a Solicitor-Advocate in England and Wales, and as an Attorney in the State of New York. She is also certified as a HKIAC Tribunal Secretary.

Sue's practice focuses on international dispute resolution and public international law. She advises and represents a range of clients across different industries and jurisdictions on various dispute resolution mechanisms, including in relation to commercial and investor-state arbitrations. Sue has further experience with ad-hoc and institutional arbitration, including under the DIS, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, and UNCITRAL Rules.

Sue is currently a member of the Europe Sub-Committee of the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations.

Prior to joining Freshfields, Sue worked at law firms in the Netherlands and London and at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Hong Kong where she assisted with the case management of arbitration proceedings and the scrutiny of arbitral awards. She was also employed by the Singapore Government to work on public international law matters and policies including in relation to the United Nations and other international organisations.

Sue also speaks English, Chinese (Mandarin) and has intermediate proficiency in Japanese.

Mr John Nicolson

I am Chartered Quantity Surveyor, a Chartered Arbitrator, registered Adjudicator and recognised Quantum Expert with over 40 years’ experience in construction within building, civil, petrochemical, structural, rail, utilities, mechanical, and M&E environments.
I Chartered with the RICS in 1984 and became a Fellow of the RICS in 1996, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2006 and a Charterer Arbitrator in 2009.
I am a practising Arbitrator, Adjudicator and Quantum Expert.
I work extensively throughout Europe (UK, Spain, Portugal, Germany & Gibraltar) and the Middle East (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Libya)

Mr Victor Honoré Nielsen

- Dedicated legal professional with a strong background in Corporate Commercial matters, litigation and arbitration.
- Master of Laws (Cand.jur.), Aarhus University | 2021
- I am currently working as an assistant attorney at the Danish law firm Holst, Advokater
-Master of Laws (Cand.jur.), Aarhus University | 2021
-Exchange Student, The University of Western Australia | 2019
-I participated in the 28th Vis Moot for the Aarhus University team which won the Pieter Sanders Award for best memorandum for Claimant.
- Participated as an arbitratior in the 31th Vis Moot

Mr Friedrich Niggemann

Dr jur admittd to the french and german bar, practicing in Paris, over 30 years arbitration experience

Ms Dragana Nikolic

Dragana Nikolić is an attorney at law admitted to the bar in Serbia, cooperating with Queritius. She has helped with representing states, corporations, and individuals in ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, VIAC and SCC arbitrations, as well as before the ICJ and IACtHR. Dragana graduated from the University of Belgrade (BA, LL.M) and University of Cambridge (LL.M), specializing in international law. As a member of the University of Belgrade team, she won the Pieter Sanders Award for the Best Memorandum for Claimant (2013) at the Vis Moot Court as well as the Third Prize for the Best Memorandum for Claimant at the FDI Moot Court (2013).

Ms Natalia Nincevic

Natalia Nincevic is an attorney based in the United States. She is currently practicing in-house with expertise in global privacy, platform safety & integrity, and cybersecurity. Natalia holds an LLM in International Commercial Arbitration and Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary University of London and a Juris Doctorate from Florida State University. She is a former mootie, having represented FSU at the 24th and 25th Vis Moots in Vienna. For the last 4 years, she has served as an arbitrator in Vienna and at various pre-moots internationally.

Mr Patrick Noonan

Patrick Noonan was General Counsel and Secretary General for 18 years of Nexans (French multinational listed on the Paris Stock Exchange), as well as General Counsel of Soitec (Paris Stock Exchange) in 2021/2022.He began his career as an attorney at Patton, Boggs in Washington D.C. and Wilson, Sonsini in Palo Alto, before moving on to Texas Instruments in Dallas and Nice, and Alcatel in Brussels, Paris, and Toronto. He brings first-hand transaction experience and a business point of view to dispute resolution. He has participated in international arbitrations and mediations as arbitrator, mediator, counsel, party, strategist, and witness, in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. He is included on the American Arbitration Association-ICDR Panel of Arbitrators; the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals; the arbitrator rosters of the Saudi SCCA and the Qatar QICCA; the European Union Commission Pool of Arbitrators and of Trade and Sustainable Development Experts for Bilateral Trade Agreement Disputes; and the panel of Tiers Conciliateurs, Paris Place de Droit (dispositif COVID19). He is a CIArb Fellow and CEDR Accredited Mediator. He has a J.D. and B.S.(Engineering) from Stanford University, studied law in France and Italy, and has worked in common law and civil law environments.

Ms Olha Nosenko

Olha is an Associate in Vasil Kisil law firm (Kyiv, Ukraine), specializing in commercial dispute resolution, acting for clients before international commercial arbitration, cross border litigation and national courts. Participated in Vis Moot as part of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Team, after acted as a team coach and arbitrator during international rounds in Vienna.
Member of the organizer team of the Ukrainian Vis Pre-Moot.
Ex-president of Kyiv Mohyla Moot Court Society (2017 to 2018) and a member of the Society's Supervisory Board.

Mr Sam Noshadha

www.noshadha.com

Dr Zoltan Novak

Career
Since 2018 Partner at TaylorWessing Budapest
2010-2018 Associate at TaylorWessing Budapest
2008-2009 Consultant at Ygomi Group
2007 Trainee at the German Federal Parliament in Berlin, Germany

Education
2017 Hague Academy of Private International Law
2016 Arbitration Academy, Paris
2014 Bar exam
2011 PhD (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Arts)
2009 Doctor of Laws (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Law)
2007 Research fellowship at the University of Leuven in Belgium
2005 Research fellowship at the University of Tübingen in Germany
2002 University degree (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Arts)

Languages: Hungarian, English, French, German

Selected publications:
"New Arbitration Act in Hungary", Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 15 October 2017
“Kétélű kard: A res iudicata a gyakorlatban” (Double-Edged Sword: Res Iudicata in Practice). Gazdaság és Jog, 2017/5.
"ICSID Complaint As Alternative to Supplemental Filing", EFILA Blog, 26 April 2016
“Das Recht als Form und Symbol”, in: Tektonik der Systeme. Neulektüren von Oswald Spengler. Hrsg. Bart Philipsen, Sientje Maes und Arne De Winde. Heidelberg: Synchron - Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren, 2016.
"A komfortlevél nálunk és más nemzeteknél” (Comfort Letter in Hungary and in Other Nations). Gazdaság és Jog, 2015/1.

Mr Umberto Novara

Umberto graduated in law from the University of Turin, Italy and trained for over two years in leading arbitration firms between Geneva and Paris. As a former Vis Mootie and current coach, he is eager to contribute to the Vis Community by serving as an arbitrator.

Ms Bruna Novis Gordilho

Bruna Gordilho is a brazilian lawyer working with international trade, corporate law and contracts . Graduated in Law at Faculdade Baiana de Direito. Master of Law (LL.M.) in International Trade Law at the International Trade Center (ITCILO) of University of Turin. Currently pursuing a Master of Law in Legal Studies at Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna. Participated as a team member in the 27th, 28th and 29th Vis Moot and has since been active as an arbitrator in the the Moot.

Mr Zdeněk Nový

An academic and practitioner interested in international arbitration

Education:
- Mgr. (master of law and legal science, Faculty of Law, Brno)
- LL. M. (Comparative, European and International Laws, EUI, Florence)
- Ph.D. (private international law/summa cum laude/, Faculty of Law, Brno)
- Juris Doctor in Public International Law (Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno)

Publications:
- 42 publications (including 3 books)

Educational activities:
- full-time teaching at Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in Brno (2009-nowadays)
- active participation in more than 50 academic conferences and workshops
- coaching of the Vis Moot Team of Faculty of law, Masaryk University (2014)
- arbitrating in Willem C. Vis Moot (2014-nowadays)

Studies abroad (non-degree):
- Summer Session in Public International Law, the Hague Academy of International Law (2021, online)
- Visiting Scholar, the EUI, Florence, Italy (2020)
- Certificate in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, Roma Tre (2018)
- Independent Researcher, the UNIDROIT (2009)
- Summer Session in Private International Law, the Hague Academy of International Law (2008)

Legal practice:
- Attorney-at-law, the Czech Bar Association (2013-nowadays)
- Counsel in various cross-border cases, including high-profile international commercial and investment arbitrations
- Legal expert in international arbitration and foreign courts
- Arbitrator
- Of counsel

Membership in arbitral institutions:
- Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic
- The Vienna International Arbitral Centre (Practitioner)
- The Court of Arbitration for Art (NAI)
- A candidate suitable for Appointment as Arbitrator (The European Commission).

Languages:
- Czech (mother tongue)
- (British and American) English, French, Italian (full proficiency);
- German, Polish, Slovak (reading).

Mr Krzysztof Nowak

Dr. Krzysztof Nowak, LL.M. (Heidelberg) is legal counsel at Borealis AG, a petrochemical company which is the world's eighth largest producer of polyethylene and polypropylene, headquartered in Vienna.
In his daily practice Krzysztof focuses on M&A transactions, financings, circular economy solutions as well as corporate and commercial law.
Krzysztof graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, the University of Vienna (Dr. iur.), the Heidelberg University (LL.M.) and University of Economics in Cracow (finance and accounting).
During his studies, Krzysztof participated in XX Willem C. Vis Moot Court and served as arbitrator in Vis Moots since then.

Mr Lars Nümann

- Gradution from Law School in 2001
- bar exam in 2003
- Master in International Commercial Arbitration Law - University of Stockholm in 2005.
- Work experience: construction law, commercial and corporate law, mergers, real estate law and international trade law, European law and international commercial arbitration
Acadamic activities: lectures i.a. at University of Rostock, Catholic University Brazilia, UAS Wismar.
Member of German bar, YAS Stockholm, DIS & DIS 40
Expert (Fachanwalt) commercial & corporate law and tax law

Mr Klaus Oblin

www.oblin.at

Prof Avv Alberto Oddenino

Professor of International Law and of International Arbitration in the Law Department of the University of Torino
Lawyer, Member of the Torino Bar since 2001
Of Counsel in Pavesio e Associati with Negri Clementi Law Firm (Turin, Milan, Rome)
President of the Law Degree in European Legal Studies, University of Torino
Since 2008 coach of the Team of the University of Torino in the Vis Moot
Author of more than seventy publications in the field of international law, EU law and international arbitration
Fields of research related to arbitration: law applicable to the merits, independence and impartiality, TPF, confidentiality, arbitration and new technologies

Ms Rasha Odeh

My Name is Rasha odeh ,I'm holding a degree of L.L.M, a legal practitioner and enthusiastic instructor for different topics of commercial law; in specific the international trade law, law of contracts, and legal writing and researching skills, with an experience of 14 years in my field, I have a good experience in dealing with variety of laws, my teaching experience in a bilingual program, gave me the efficiency to read and compare the laws from different schools and backgrounds , and it will be my pleasure to be available for ranking of memoranda.

Mr olusegun odejobi

My journey in the legal profession began in 2011 when I gained admission into Obafemi Awolowo University. I graduated in 2016 and proceeded to do a 1-year internship at a state ministry of justice in both the civil and criminal departments. I proceeded to law school in 2017 where I qualified as a lawyer in 2018. During law school, I enrolled on a mediation programme organised Institute of Chattered Mediators and Conciliators where I fully began my journey in Arbitration. After law school, I was in active practice from 2018 till September 2022. During my practice, I was exposed to different areas of law ranging from Criminal, Civil law, Property law, and Matrimonial causes. I then applied to the University of East Anglia to further my knowledge of Arbitration by taking a programme in International Commercial Dispute Resolution. I will conclude the programme in September 2023. I intend to take every opportunity to widen my knowledge of arbitration which is why I am applying to be an arbitrator in this year's competition.

Ms Vivien Oduah

Vivien Oduah is a Solicitor-Advocate qualified in England, United Kingdom. Vivien is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and she has acted as a sole arbitrator in over 60 consumer disputes. Vivien is multilingual with effective oral and writing communication skills. Vivien has acted as an arbitrator for the Fox William Vis Pre-Moot (in Person) and the Middle East MENA Chambers eVis Pre-Moot . Vivien is a civil litigator and acts as an international arbitrator alongside her litigation work.

Ms Sophia Oechsner

I am German law student currently finalizing the First State Exam (oral examination in May). I participated in the 27th Willem C. Vis Moot for the University of Münster. Since then, I have supported the following University of Münster Teams by regularly providing feedback on memoranda. I have also repeatedly served as an arbitrator in internal practice pleadings and was an arbitrator at last years All Munich Rounds. I am very much looking forward to finally experiencing the days in Vienna, which my team unfortunately missed due to the pandemic.

Dr Reinhard Oertli

Position : Partner with Meyerlustenberger Lachenal AG
Bar Admissions : Zurich, New York
Arbitration Experience : Extensive experience as chairman of arbitration panels, sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator and counsel ; experience in BIT arbitration, also intra-EU, ECT and ad hoc; wrote or co-wrote awards on jurisdiction, distribution and licencing contracts involving patent and life science, telecom and trademark issues, shareholdings, quantum of damages, complex financial instruments.
Panels : ICC Swiss Chapter, Zurich Chamber of Commerce, Panel of Arbitrators for Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield matters (5 members appointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Swiss Authorities)
I have acted as VIS Pre-Moot Arbitrator for several years by invitation of the LCIA
Professional Experience : Foreign Associate with Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia, PA, USA ; Associate and Partner with EY, Zurich, Ordinary Judge at the Supreme Court of the Canton of Zurich ; court appointed expert by the courts of the Principality of Liechtenstein, special experience in copyright, patents, trademarks, information and communication law, data protection
Professional Associations: ASA, LCIA, Zurich and Swiss Bar Associations. INGRES; AIPPI ; ABA (International Law and Intellectual Property Sections), Swiss American Chamber of Commerce (legal chapter), Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Svizzera

Ms Isabelle Oglouyan de Campos

PhD candidate in Human Rights at the University of São Paulo with an academic exchange program at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris – Sciences Po. Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of São Paulo with an academic exchange program at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Coordinator and researcher from the Center for Inclusion in Academia (GPEIA-USP). Lawyer and partner at Neder Cerezetti Advocacia. Researcher and speaker for the University of São Paulo Law School team at the 26th Vis Moot.

Mrs Nadia Ohlhoff-Smahi

Nadia Smahi is a Swiss-qualified attorney, who participated in the 20th Willem C. Vis Moot as a team member for Stockholm University. She studied Law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, as well as Stockholm University, Sweden (LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration Law). She also worked as an intern for the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris and as a trainee in the Dispute Resolution department of Allen & Overy LLP in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She then worked as an Arbitration Assistant to Professor Pierre Tercier in Fribourg, Switzerland and as a Trainee Lawyer in International Arbitration for Lenz & Staehelin in Geneva, Switzerland. She now works as an Senior Associate in Internatinal Arbitration for Bär & Karrer in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ms Omolewa Olu-owolabi

My name is Omolewa Olu-Owolabi, I am a law graduate at the university of Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria. I qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the year 2018, and since then I have been in active practice till date. I am presently studying at the University of East Anglia, Norwich United Kingdom, for a masters degree in International Commercial and Business Law.

Mr Jasmin Omerdić

I am working as an associate at the law firm Wolf Theiss, Sarajevo office. My primary fields of work are related to banking and finance, tax and arbitration.
I participated in the 21st Moot in 2014/15 as a student at University of Sarajevo. Prior to joining Wolf Theiss, I was active with the NGO sector for several years and served as a Vice President of the European Youth Parliament Initiative in BiH and member of the Executive Board of the US Alumni Association in BiH.

Ms Elisabeth Opie

International Technology Lawyer
Former President MAA, Editor/in/Chief Vindobona Journal

Dr Konstantin Oppolzer

Dr. Konstantin Oppolzer is a Swiss-qualified attorney-at-law. His practice focuses on complex, high-stakes litigations and arbitrations as well as criminal and regulatory investigations and sanctions disputes, on behalf of companies and individuals, frequently involving multiple jurisdictions.

Konstantin has a particular interest in banking and financial services and the investment industry. He furthermore has advised clients in the fields of metals & mining and technology, media & communications.

Mr David Oprea

Internationally-oriented Romanian lawyer. Partner with a boutique law firm in Bucharest (Markó & Udrea Attorneys-at-law). Graduated the University of Bucharest, masters degree from King's College London and University of Paris 2 Panthéon – Assas). Amateur historian and quizzer.

Mr Fernando Orrantia Dworak

Fernando Orrantia Dworak is a shareholder of Greenberg Traurig and heads its commercial arbitration practice in Mexico, acting as counsel to parties and arbitrator in domestic and international commercial arbitration procedures, in addition to his experience advising clients on domestic and international M&A transactions, corporate and project financing, and regulatory matters in the port and transportation infrastructure, real estate, petrochemicals and fuels (midstream and downstream) sectors. Legal Education:
Juris Doctor, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1992-1995.
Abogado (law degree), Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City, 1987-1992.
Languages: Spanish and English.

Mr Jan Ortgies

Jan Ortgies is the Legal Adviser to H.E. Judge Bruno Simma at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in The Hague and an arbitrator and Tribunal Assistant/Secretary in several (Investment) arbitrations (ICSID, ICC et al). Prior to that, he was a sixth year associate in the International Arbitration Group of Clifford Chance in Paris, France, which he had joined from Allen & Overy in Amsterdam. He was awarded the Amsterdam Order of Lawyer's prize for the best young litigator in 2013 and was named the Best Young Professional Law of the Netherlands in 2015. He holds LLMs from Stanford Law School and the University of Amsterdam.

Ms Zoe O'Sullivan

Zoe O'Sullivan KC is an experienced barrister and arbitrator practising from Serle Court Chambers, Lincoln's Inn, London UK. She was called to the English Bar in 1993 and appointed King's Counsel in 2015. She specialises in international dispute resolution and is frequently appointed as presiding, sole and co-arbitrator in arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules and in ad hoc arbitrations. She is recommended as Leading Counsel in International Commercial Arbitration by the Legal 500. She is also the coach of the Middle Temple Vis Moot team

Ms Natalia Otlinger

I am an impact-oriented ADR enthusiast, with a specific interest in international arbitration. Having obtained a Master's degree in law from the University of Silesia in Poland, my passion for international law led me to London where I began working with a barrister specialising in international arbitration. I also completed the Graduate Diploma in Law together with a Master of Arts in Law course at the University of Law in London Bloomsbury and graduated with Distinction. Subsequently I worked in PR positions at CIArb and DLA Piper and studied LPC LLM at BPP University.

In September 2021 I started my training contract at HFW LLP and I am currently in my first seat - Ship Finance.

In my previous role as a PR & Engagement Executive at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London, I was promoting alternative dispute resolution and helping people and organisations to avoid, manage and resolve disputes.

I became interested in alternative dispute resolution and international law during my legal studies by participation in the Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot in Vienna in 2014 and have coached and arbitrated on various Pre-Moots since then.

Mr Osman Erturk Ozel

Osman Ertürk Özel, LL.M. provides service to his local and foreign clients in the fields of commercial and administrative law, as well as law of obligations and law of contracts all over Turkey, and furthermore represents his clients in national and international arbitration. As an addition to the vocational activities Osman Ertürk Özel, LL.M. is a visiting lecturer in the field of International Commercial Arbitration in TOBB ETU University and he is an one of the youngest official arbitrator of the Istanbul Arbitration Center (ISTAC) and TOBBUYUM. Additionally, he is the president of TOBBUYUM below 40 committee.