Juan Fernández-Armesto

Founding Partner, Armesto & Asociados, Spain

Juan Fernández-Armesto is a professional arbitrator. He has been President of the Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission (CNMV) (1996-2000), Partner of Uría Menéndez (1983-1996) and Chaired Professor of Commercial Law (1988-2009).

Since 2001, Mr Fernández-Armesto has acted as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator or chairman in more than 130 commercial, construction and investment disputes, involving mainly States or State owned enterprises.

Domitille Baizeau

Partner, LALIVE, Switzerland; Member, Arbitration Court of the Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution; Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law; Councilor, European Users' Council of the LCIA

Ms Baizeau, a dual French/New Zealand national, admitted to practice in England & Wales and in Geneva, Switzerland, joined LALIVE in 2004, becoming a partner in 2008. She has been practising dispute resolution for nearly 20 years, exclusively in international arbitration since 2001, acting as counsel and as arbitrator in both ad hoc and administered proceedings (UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, Swiss rules, ICDR, WIPO), governed by common law and civil law procedural and substantive laws. She also regularly advises clients on arbitration-related matters including drafting of arbitration agreements, challenges and enforcement of awards. She primarily handles construction, sales and services agreement, joint venture, shareholders, M&A and investment disputes in the energy, telecommunications, transport and pharmaceutical sectors.

Before joining LALIVE, Ms Baizeau practiced in litigation and arbitration with a leading business law firm in Christchurch, New Zealand, and in Paris with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She graduated from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1995 (LL.B. First Class Honours) and also holds a Diploma in French law from the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

She has been ranked for several years by Chambers & Partners (Switzerland and Europe-wide) and in 2011, she was selected as one of 45 "leading figures" in international arbitration below the age of 45 following a peer-review process conducted by GAR.

Yas Banifatemi

Partner, International Arbitration Group, Shearman & Sterling, France Yas Banifatemi is a partner in Shearman & Sterling's International Arbitration Group and leads the firm's Public International Law Practice.

She is also a member of the Firm's 9-member Policy Committee. She advises and represents States, State-owned entities and companies on both public international law and international arbitration issues. Ms Banifatemi has acted as counsel and arbitrator in arbitration cases under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SCC, CRCICA and Swiss Arbitration Rules, with particular focus on investment protection, oil & gas and general commercial matters.

Ms Banifatemi holds a PhD in International Law from the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas and a LLM from the Harvard Law School. She is a visiting lecturer in Yale Law School and a lecturer on International Investment Law at the University Paris I Panthéon- Sorbonne.

Sébastien Besson

Partner, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Switzerland; Member, Arbitration Court of the Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution

Sébastien Besson is a partner of Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, a Swiss international law firm specialized in international arbitration. He is also a part time Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Neuchâtel. His main focus of practice is international arbitration, as counsel and arbitrator, and sport disputes. He has been acting as chairman, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and counsel in many international and domestic arbitrations under the rules of several institutions and in ad hoc cases in Switzerland and abroad (notably, ICC, Court of Arbitration for Sports, UNCITRAL Rules, Swiss Rules, Zurich and Geneva Rules).

Mr Besson also represents parties in court proceedings related to arbitration (notably challenges against arbitral award). He published numerous treaties and articles in the field of international arbitration, including"'Comparative Law of International Arbitration" (2nd ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2007, co-authored with Professor Jean-François Poudret). He has been a speaker at various conferences, university programmes and events in Switzerland and abroad.

Mr Besson was educated at the Lausanne University, where he received his Doctorate in Law in 1997 (Prix de la Fondation Fleuret, Lauréat de l'Université de Lausanne, Prix Walther Hug), and at Columbia University (New York), from which he holds an LL.M (2000). He is fluent in French and English, and has good knowledge of German.

Yves Derains

Founding Partner, Derains & Gharavi, France; Chairman, ICC Institute of World Business Law; Former Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration

Yves Derains, former Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Director of the Legal Department of the ICC, is member of the Paris Bar and a founding partner of the law firm Derains & Gharavi. He is specialized in international arbitration and is acting both as arbitrator and counsel of parties in arbitration proceedings. Mr Derains is former Chairman of the Comité Français de l'Arbitrage and Chairman of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. He was Chairman of the Working Party on the Revision of the ICC Rules of Arbitration in 1998 and Co-Chairman of the ICC Task Force on the Reduction of Costs and Time in international arbitration. He is a member of the French Committee on Private International Law since 1978. He is a member of the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and member of various other organizations specialized in international arbitration and in international business law. He is Honorary Professor of the Law Faculties of San Ignacio de Loyola University, Universidad del Pacifico and the Universidad de Lima, Peru.

Mr Derains is also author of many publications on International Commercial Arbitration and on International Business Law, in particular: "Evaluation of damages in international arbitration", ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2006 - "A Guide to the ICC Rules of Arbitration" (Second edition, with E. Schwartz), Kluwer Law International, 2005.

Matthew Gearing QC

Partner, Global Co-Head, International Arbitration Group, Allen & Overy, Hong Kong; Council Member, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre

Matthew Gearing QC is Global Co-Head of the International Arbitration Group and partner of the Hong Kong office. He is widely regarded as a leading arbitration practitioner; in particular he was appointed Queen's Counsel (England & Wales) in February 2014.

Mr Gearing has been based in both London and Hong Kong offices and has acted in a large number of complex and high profile arbitrations around the world. His experience includes arbitrations under the ICC, UNCITRAL, SIAC, HKIAC, KLRCA, SCC, LCIA and ICSID Rules. The subject matter of the disputes has related to joint venture agreements, manufacturing and high technology sectors, disputes relating to complex financial products, and a wide range of disputes in the energy and resources sector.

As well as being a Queen's Counsel (England & Wales), Mr Gearing is a Solicitor-Advocate qualified in Hong Kong. He routinely appears as advocate in his cases.

Mr Gearing is a joint editor of "Russell on Arbitration" a leading text book on arbitration in England & Wales, and has written and spoken widely on arbitration. Both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 repeatedly rank Matthew as one of the leading individuals in Asia Pacific arbitration. He speaks English and French.

Brody K. Greenwald

Associate, White & Case LLP

Brody K. Greenwald is an associate at White & Case LLP in Washington, DC, where he has been practicing international arbitration and litigation since February 2006. Mr. Greenwald represents and advises companies and sovereign states in ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings arising under bilateral investment treaties, the Energy Charter Treaty, and free trade agreements such as NAFTA and CAFTA-DR. He has significant experience in investment treaty arbitrations involving alleged fraud and corruption, and has published several articles on this subject.

Vladimir Khvalei

Partner, Baker & McKenzie, Russian Federation; Vice-President, ICC

International Court of Arbitration

Vladimir Khvalei is a partner in the Moscow office of Baker & McKenzie and heads the firm's CIS Dispute Resolution Practice Group. He has wide experience participating in litigation in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine, as well as in international arbitration cases in accordance with the arbitration rules of the ICAC, UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC and other arbitration institutions, both as a party counsel and an arbitrator. Mr Khvalei is a Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He is also included on the list of arbitrators of the arbitration institutions in Austria, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and UAE. He is a Chairman of the Arbitration Commission of the Russian National Committee of the ICC, a Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee and a Member of the Board of the International Arbitration Court at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Vladimir is also a member of the Polish Arbitration Association, the Austrian Arbitration Association, member of the Board of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association and Chairman of the Russian Arbitration Association. Mr. Khvalei is included on the list of tutors, examiners and assessors of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Mr Khvalei graduated with a degree in law from the Belarusian State University in Minsk in 1992. He speaks Russian, English, Belarusian and Polish.

Richard Kreindler

Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Germany; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law Richard Kreindler is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, resident in its Frankfurt office, and has specialized in international arbitration and litigation matters since 1985. He is a member of the New York and Paris Bars. He is a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.

Mr Kreindler's practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation, including commercial and construction arbitrations, investor-state disputes under public international law, and transnational litigation matters. His experience extends across Europe, the United States, Asia and the Middle East.

Mr Kreindler has published various treatises and numerous other publications and lectures on international arbitration issues. He has been a member of the Editorial Board or Advisory Board of various legal publications, including Arbitration International, International Arbitration Law Review, International Journal of Dispute Resolution, International Legal Materials, Revue de Droit des Affaires Internationales, SchiedsVZ Zeitschrift für Schiedsverfahren (German Arbitration Journal). He is a member of the Board of the Vienna International Arbitration Center and the Swedish Arbitration Association.

He was Chairman of the IBA working group resulting in the 2010 IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration. Mr Kreindler is also an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Münster, Germany and delivered the lectures in Private International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law in summer 2012, published in the Collected Courses in 2013. He is a graduate of Harvard, Munich, Columbia and Münster Universities and is a Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London.

Aloysius Llamzon

Associate, International Arbitration Group, King & Spalding, New York, United States; Former Senior Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague

Aloysius Llamzon is a member of King & Spalding's International Arbitration Group in New York, where he represents corporate and sovereign clients in inter-State, investment treaty, and commercial arbitrations under the ICC, ICSID, and UNCITRAL rules. Prior to his return to practice, Dr Llamzon was Senior Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Among his duties as Senior Legal Counsel, he assisted numerous tribunals in public international as well as contract-based arbitrationcontract-based arbitrations involving States, including as Registrar or tribunal secretary. From 2011 to 2014, he was the Registrar of the Indus Waters Kishenganga Arbitration (Pakistan v India).

Dr Llamzon received his AB and JD from the Ateneo de Manila University, and his LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. His numerous publications include the monograph Corruption in International Investment Arbitration (Oxford, 2014), which won Yale's Ambrose Gherini Prize for best work in international law. Louie was formerly an associate in the U.S. Corporate Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Hong Kong, and at Romulo, Mabanta, Buenaventura, Sayoc & de los Angeles in Manila. He was also a professorial lecturer and adjunct faculty member in arbitration and international law at universities in Manila and The Hague. He is a member of the bar in the Philippines and New York, and was a registered foreign lawyer in Hong Kong.

Edoardo Marcenaro

Head of Legal Affairs of Global Generation, Enel SpA, Italy Edoardo Marcenaro is Head of Legal Affairs of Global Generation in Enel SpA, the Italian energy utility, where he gives legal support to the negotiation and performance of EPC Contracts as well as operations of 200 power plants spread from Italy to Spain, from Russia to Slovak Republic and several countries in Latin America. Mr Marcenaro graduated in law in 1991 at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, after which he followed a master of in-house counseling at University Bocconi of Milan.

Since 2001, he took care of major M&A transactions in Eastern Europe up to 2008, when Enel's acquisition period was over and he therefore started to work on creation, integration, supervision and management of all legal departments in the various companies acquired, following major legal and corporate matters under various jurisdictions up to October 2014. Beforehand, in 1994, Mr Marcenaro joined as in-house counsel the construction company of ABB Group in Italy, while from 1999 to 2001 he covered the position of Legal Director in Alstom Power Italia SpA, mainly dealing in both positions with the negotiation and execution of EPC contracts, as well as litigation related thereto, in EMEA region, for the construction of power plants in most cases with a project finance scheme.

Eventually, Mr Marcenaro is frequently lecturer on international contracts and arbitration, M&A processes and construction projects organized by the most relevant institutions (e.g. arbit, ASSONIME, Associazione Italiana Arbitrato, Milan Chamber of Commerce, International Chamber of Commerce, UNIDROIT and PLI).

Andrea Menaker

Partner, White & Case LLP, Washington DC, United States Andrea Menaker counsels clients in complex international arbitrations, with a focus on investment treaty arbitration. She represents both claimant investors and respondent States in arbitrations before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and its Additional Facility, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and other arbitral institutions, as well as in ad hoc arbitration under the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Ms Menaker was previously Chief of the NAFTA Arbitration Division for the US State Department, where she was lead counsel for the United States in arbitrations under NAFTA Chapter Eleven, and participated in the drafting of investment and dispute resolution provisions in US treaties and free trade agreements. She is frequently called upon to speak on international arbitration and investor-state dispute resolution issues. She has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Centre, where she taught international commercial arbitration for several years, and has lectured at several other universities.

Ms Menaker is currently serving as Chair of the Programme Committee for ICCA's 2016 Congress to be held in Mauritius. She is also an Executive Council Member of the American Society of International Law, and an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Sophie Nappert

Arbitrator, 3 Verulam Buildings, United Kingdom

Sophie Nappert is a dual-qualified lawyer in Canada and in the UK.

She is an arbitrator in independent practice, based in Gray's Inn, London, specializing in international disputes, notably in energy, infrastructure, natural resources and cross-border investment. Before becoming a full-time arbitrator, she was Head of International Arbitration at a global law firm.

Ms Nappert is trained and has practised in both civil law and common law jurisdictions. She is the peer-nominated Moderator of OGEMID, the online discussion forum on current issues of international investment law, economic law and arbitration. She is ranked in Global Arbitration Review's Top 30 List of Female Arbitrators Worldwide and is listed in the International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration. Ms Nappert is the author of a Commentary on the 2010 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Practitioner's Guide (Juris, 2012). She is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars on issues of international arbitration, international investment law and dispute resolution. She is a guest lecturer at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School and McGill University Faculty of Law.

Ms Nappert has created the Nappert Prize in International Arbitration, open to young scholars and practitioners worldwide, and administered under the auspices of McGill University.

Tom Sprange

Partner, Solicitor Advocate, King & Spalding International LLP, United Kingdom

Tom Sprange is a partner and Solicitor Advocate in the London office of King & Spalding. He is a member of the firm's International Arbitration Group.

Mr Sprange's practice focuses on significant disputes, many with a multi-jurisdictional emphasis. He has acted as Counsel in over 75 international arbitrations in the leading arbitration institutes including the ICC, AAA, SCC, LCIA and ICSID as well as a number of Ad-Hoc arbitrations. He sits as an arbitrator, both as a member of three member tribunals and as a sole arbitrator. Mr Sprange has also acted as Counsel in proceedings before the High Court of England and Wales. This experience includes acting for the Claimants in arbitral proceedings that involved one of the largest ever commercial arbitration awards; securing a settlement of $1 billion in one of the largest ICSID claims pursued by an investor; acting for the Claimants in two of the leading authorities on worldwide freezing orders; and acting for the Defendant in one of the leading authorities relating to relief in support of arbitration pursuant to Section 44 of the Arbitration Act 1996.

Mr Sprange also has experience in conducting internal investigations, audits, and risk assessments for clients in the context of regulatory compliance, including of international and local anti-corruption and money laundering legislation. He has acted for large corporations, governments and individuals in this context. Mr Sprange frequently lectures, speaks and publishes on international arbitration and regulatory issues.

Hiroyuki Tezuka

Partner, Nishimura & Asahi, Japan; Committee Vice Chairperson, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration, Inter-Pacific Bar Association Hiroyuki Tezuka is a partner at Nishimura & Asahi, and heads the firm's international dispute resolution practice group. He specializes in international commercial litigation and arbitration. He has been involved in a number of international arbitrations as counsel, solearbitrator, co-arbitrator or chairman including ICC, JCAA, AAA-ICDR, VIAC and KCAB.

Mr Tezuka serves as an executive director of the Japan Association of Arbitrators, was a Vice-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA Legal Practice Division, and is a committee Vice-Chairperson of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee at the IPBA. Since 2013, he has been appointed as a member of SIAC's Court of Arbitration, and has been teaching international arbitration at the University of Tokyo, School of Law as visiting professor. Mr Tezuka graduated from the University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1984) and Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1992). He is admitted as an attorney in Japan (1986) and in New York (1993).

Carita Wallgren-Lindholm

Partner, Lindholm Wallgren Attorneys Ltd., Finland; Member, ICC International Court of Arbitration Carita Wallgren-Lindholm is a partner in the Finnish boutique law firm Lindholm Wallgren, Attorneys Ltd. She serves as arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitration.

Before moving to her boutique firm as from 2009 she spent 25 years in the Helsinki law firm Roschier having commenced her legal practice in Paris in the early eighties. She is also a trained mediator. Carita Wallgren-Lindholm has during her 30 years in practice maintained a broad practice range, and she has extensive experience inter alia in Dispute Resolution, Corporate Advisory, Transactions, Projects and delivery contracts.

Ms Wallgren-Lindholm has been a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR since 1996 and Vice Chair since 2011 and is a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration since 2012. She is also a member of the ICSID Panel of Conciliators since 2007, and was a member of the Board of ICC Finland 2008-2014 and since 2015 of the local ICC Advisory Board.

Nassib G. Ziadé

Chief Executive Officer, Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR-AAA), Bahrain

Nassib G. Ziadé is the Chief Executive Officer of the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR-AAA). Between July 2011 and August 2013, he served as the Director of the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC). Between 2007 and 2011, he was the Deputy Secretary General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and between April 2008 and June 2009 was also the Acting Secretary-General of ICSID. He has acted as co-arbitrator or chair in ad hoc or institutional arbitrations.

Mr Ziadé is a member of the Court of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and a Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), a member of the Panels of Arbitrators and Conciliators of ICSID, and a Council member of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions (IFCAI).

From 1997 to 2007, Mr Ziadé served as the Executive Secretary of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. In addition, he advised the Government of Bahrain in 2002 on the establishment of its Constitutional Court. He has also advised several international organizations on the establishment and functioning of their international administrative tribunals.

A dual Lebanese and Chilean national, Mr Ziadé has extensive experience in the administration of international legal proceedings and in the management and development of international tribunals. He is an expert in private and public international law, international arbitration, international investment law, international administrative law, and the law of conflicts of interest.

Mr Ziadé has taught at the University of Miami School of Law, at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, at Saint-Joseph University's Dubai campus, at The Hague Academy of International Law, and at the Paris Academy for Arbitration Law.

Mr Ziadé studied at the French University in Beirut, the American University of Beirut, Cambridge University and the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is fluent in Arabic, English and French, and he has a working knowledge of Spanish.