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Chair of Private International Law and Professor of Dispute Resolution (Cairo University); Founding Partner and Head of International Arbitration (Zulficar & Partners Law Firm); Vice-President of ICC International Court of Arbitration; Court Member of the LCIA; President of LCIA’s Arab Users’ Council; Vice-Chair IBA Arbitration Committee; Member of the ICDR/AAA International Advisory Committee; Member of the SIAC’s African Users’ Council; Member of the CRCICA’s Advisory Committee; Vice President of CIArb’s Egypt Branch; CEDR Accredited Mediator and Dispute Resolution Consultant to the World Bank Group.
Prof. Dr. Abdel Wahab holds over fifty-five prizes for academic achievement, and his expertise spans cross border multi-jurisdictional and highly complex transactions and disputes. He acted and appeared in commercial and investment proceedings governed by Bahraini, Egyptian, English, French, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Libyan, New York, Omani, Pakistani, Qatari, Saudi, Spanish, Swiss, Syrian, Italian and United Arab Emirates law(s), as well as the general principles of law. He is listed on the rosters of many arbitral institutions including the CRCICA, DIAC, BCDR-AAA, KLRCA, CIETAC, and the Arbitration Center of the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration. He has served as ‘Sole Arbitrator’, ‘Presiding Arbitrator’, ‘Party Appointed Arbitrator’, and ‘Counsel’ in more than 175 cases involving parties from the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Canada, and the United States. Prof. Dr. Abdel Wahab featured in cases under the auspices of the AAA, CRCICA, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, LMAA, SCC, SIAC, as well as ad hoc UNCITRAL proceedings.
Prof. Dr. Abdel Wahab features in all leading international arbitration directories including: Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration, the GAR Global Guide for Future Leaders in International Arbitration (2017) and the GAR Guide on Thought Leaders in International Arbitration (2017).
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Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP; Vice-President, ICC International Court of Arbitration
Yas Banifatemi is Deputy Managing Partner of Shearman & Sterling’s International Arbitration Group and leads the firm’s Public International Law Practice. She also co-heads Shearman & Sterling’s Energy practice. Yas is widely recognised as one of the most prominent international arbitration and public international law specialists worldwide. She advises and represents States, State-owned entities and companies on both public international law and international arbitration issues. She acts as counsel and arbitrator in arbitration cases under a variety of rules, with particular focus on investment protection, oil & gas and general commercial matters.
A Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and a member of the LCIA Court of Arbitration, Yas Banifatemi is also a member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, appointed by the Chairman of ICSID’s Administrative Council. She has authored numerous articles on international arbitration and international law and regularly appears as a speaker, particularly on issues of investment arbitration and international law. She lectures on International Investment Law at Université Panthéon-Sorbonnne (Paris I) and serves as a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches International Commercial Arbitration.
Yas Banifatemi has been repeatedly praised in all leading professional directories, which have described her as being a "star performer," a "brilliant lawyer with a sharp intellect," an "excellent practitioner" and "one of the best technicians in the international investment arbitration field," also having "a considerable presence in public international law." Chambers Global notes that "Yas Banifatemi is emphatically described by clients as ‘an outstanding lawyer in every possible respect."
Deputy General Counsel - Disputes at ENGIE SA
Patrick Baeten graduated in law from the university of Ghent and holds an LLM in international law from the university of Louvain-la-Neuve.
He joined ENGIE in 1996, where he now serves as Deputy Group General Counsel, in charge of global disputes. Recent work includes dealing with allegations of environmental and criminal liability related to the operation of coal power plants, ICSID arbitrations under the Energy Charter Treaty, regulatory investigations into energy wholesale market behaviour both in the European Union and the Unites States, gas price review arbitrations, construction arbitrations, criminal investigations into alleged bribery issues and domestic litigation related to the lifetime extension of nuclear power plants.
Patrick lectures European energy law at the University of Leuven and is a member of the scientific committee of the Belgian centre for arbitration and mediation, CEPANI. He’s a frequent speaker at litigation and arbitration conferences. Under his tenure, ENGIE won the Belgian Legal Award 2012 for Most Innovative Legal Department and the Trends Legal Award 2014 for Best Legal Department.
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Founding Partner, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva
A dual Swiss and Brazilian national, Dr. Lévy studied law in Paris and Geneva.
Laurent Lévy has extensive experience in corporate disputes, mainly in the areas of oil, gas, air & space and finance industries as well as in investment arbitration.
He is a Council member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, a member of the Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage and of the Milan Club of Arbitrators. He is also a former Vice-President of the ICC Court of International Arbitration and a former member and Vice- President of the London Court of International Arbitration.
Since 2007 he is a visiting professor at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London.
He has handled more than 250 arbitration proceedings, mostly as an arbitrator, under various rules such as the ICC, ICSID and LCIA Rules, in numerous jurisdictions worldwide.
Partner, TIMES Attorneys, Zurich
Andrea Mondini is a partner of TIMES Attorneys in Zurich, a boutique firm specializing in Technology, IP, Media, Entertainment and Sports law.
His main areas of practice include litigation and arbitration of intellectual property disputes. He also advises clients on contractual matters such as distribution, franchising, licensing, R&D and technology transfer agreements. He has served as counsel and as arbitrator in numerous arbitrations under the ICC, WIPO and ASA rules.
Before joining TIMES Attorneys in October 2017, Andrea Mondini was a partner of Schellenberg Wittmer’s Zurich office where he headed the firm’s Intellectual Property / Information and Communication Technology Group.
Andrea Mondini has authored and co-authored several publications on intellectual property. He is a panelist with the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center for Internet Domain Names and is a member of INTA, LES, AIPPI and EPLaw.
Andrea Mondini graduated from the School of Law of the University of Zurich in 1987 and obtained a Master of Laws from Georgetown University in 1995. He joined Schellenberg Wittmer as an associate in 1992 and also worked as a foreign associate with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner in Washington D.C. In 2000 he became a partner at Schellenberg Wittmer. In October 2017, he joined TIMES Atttorneys.
He is fluent in German, English, Italian and French.
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Prior to founding Three Crowns LLP, Constantine led the international arbitration practice of a leading international law firm in London. He has appeared as counsel on some of the largest commercial arbitrations of the last decade, many of which relate to the energy sector. Most recently, Constantine has been lead counsel for commercial clients in claims arising under production sharing contracts against sovereigns and state entities in Algeria, Nigeria, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Kazakhstan. He has recently led teams that obtained a monetary award for clients against the Kurdistan Regional Government for $1.98bn, and a final award for a consortium of clients against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company in excess of $2bn. Constantine has also advised and represented a variety of investors and states in relation to disputes under relevant bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, and was counsel of record in high profile ICSID successes for the Republic of Kenya in World Duty Free v Republic of Kenya, and for the Republic of Lithuania in Parkerings v Republic of Lithuania.
Constantine has been named as one of the "top 20" individuals in the world of arbitration in the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 "Who’s Who" of Commercial Arbitration. He is a co-author of the fourth, fifth and sixth editions of the leading textbook on international arbitration Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration. He is a solicitor-advocate (Higher Courts Civil), and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2014.
Constantine was educated at King’s College, London and Cambridge University.
Partner, White & Case LLP, France; Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law
Michael Polkinghorne is a Partner at White & Case LLP, resident in Paris where he heads the office’s arbitration group. Having served as counsel and arbitrator in arbitrations conducted under most major institutional and ad hoc rules, Mr. Polkinghorne is particularly well-known in the energy field, often involving the areas of foreign direct investment and acting for and against states. Admitted to practice in civil and common law jurisdictions, and having lived in both Asia and Europe, he has advised on disputes arising in many different countries.
Former Australian member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC, Mr. Polkinghorne is a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law (and editor of its newsletter) and a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN).
Ben Prewett is an associate in the London office of Three Crowns LLP. His practice includes acting as counsel in complex, high value international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, across a range of sectors. He holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Auckland and an LLM from Stanford Law School (as a Fulbright Scholar).
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Partner, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva, Switzerland
Antonio Rigozzi is a founding partner at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, where he heads the sports arbitration team. He has extensive experience across all the main areas of sports law and arbitration, including anti-doping, contract, disciplinary, labour, image rights, regulatory, and sponsorship disputes in a wide range of sports, from football to Formula One, sailing, athletics, ice hockey, swimming and cycling.
Antonio regularly advises athletes, teams and sports-governing bodies in proceedings before the CAS, the BAT and the Swiss courts, including the Swiss Supreme Court, and serves as an arbitrator or mediator in sports-related disputes outside the CAS. He is also the chairman of the Arbitral Tribunal of Swiss Athletics and a co-opted judge of the FIA’s International Court of Appeal for cases relating to Formula One.
Antonio further serves as counsel, arbitrator (presiding, sole or party-appointed) and expert in international commercial arbitrations, both ad hoc and institutional rules, and is a member of the Court of Innovative Arbitration’s panel of arbitrators.
In addition to his practice as counsel and arbitrator, Antonio teaches international arbitration and sports law at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and lectures for several LLM programs, including the Master in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) in Geneva. He regularly publishes in international law journals, and has (co-)authored and (co-)edited a number of books in international arbitration and sports law, among which the leading treatise International Arbitration – Law and Practice in Switzerland (3rd edition 2015), with Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler.
Partner, Betto Seraglini, France
Christophe Seraglini is a partner at Betto Seraglini and member of the Paris Bar specialized in international litigation and international arbitration. He is regularly appointed as an arbitrator in international disputes. He acts for leading international groups in the fields of construction, energy and high technologies.
Mr Seraglini is also a professor of law and teaches private international law, arbitration law, international litigation and international contract law, both in France and abroad. He is an Agrégé des Facultés de droit and holds a Ph.D from the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Mr Seraglini is the author of one of the leading texts dedicated to French and international arbitration (published in April 2013, éditions Montchrestien). He is the co-author of the Arbitration Law Reviews of the Semaine Juridique and member of the editorial board of the Cahiers de l’Arbitrage (Paris Journal of International Arbitration).
Mr Seraglini has been appointed Secretary General of the International Arbitration Academy. He speaks French and English.