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Ph.D. International Law (Paris II-Assas)
She is a researcher in International and Investment Contracts & Arbitration. She is an Associate to Lamy International Contracts (Investment Contracts, Contractual provisions on hardship, equilibrium provision and Force Majeure). She is a member of Groupe de Travail sur les Contrats Internationaux (G.T.C.I.), member of la Société de Législation Comparée and member of Paris MENA Legal Club. She is the author of La renégociation des contrats internationaux, Editions Bruylant, 2011. Among her publications, "The Evolution and Current Status of the Concept of Indirect Expropriation in Investment Treaties and Arbtitration", Indian Journal of Arbitration Law (IJAL), 2017 vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 98-137 (co-authored with Maria Beatriz Burghetto); "The Evolution of State Contract till the 1960s", International Business Law Journal (IBLJ), no. 5, 2017, pp. 393-430; "L’obligation de renégociation: étude de droit comparé", Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé(RDIC), 2015/2, pp. 233-277. (The Obligation of renegotiation in comparative law).
Latest article "Article 1195 of the French Civil Code on Revision for Hardship in light of Comparative Law", International Business Law Journal, no. 5—2018, pp. 449-464.
"The contractually unforeseen renegotiation", International Business Law Journal, no. 1, 2010, pp. 35-55.
Fluent in French, English and Arabic.
Attorney-at-Law, Baer & Karrer SA
Dr Mercédeh Azeredo da Silveira is an attorney-at-law with fifteen years of experience in international arbitration. She is acting as arbitrator in international commercial arbitration proceedings and represents individuals, corporate entities and governments before arbitral tribunals in both commercial and investment arbitration proceedings. She has acted as counsel in the context of commercial disputes related, inter alia, to international engineering and construction contracts, sales contracts, distribution agreements and share purchase agreements, as well as in the context of investment disputes in the mining, telecommunications and energy sectors. Dr Azeredo da Silveira also acts as counsel before the Swiss Supreme Court in proceedings related to challenges of international arbitral awards, including sports-related awards. Finally, she regularly advises clients and serves as legal expert on issues pertaining to economic sanctions.
Dr Azeredo da Silveira has an academic expertise in the field of economic sanctions. She is the author of Trade Sanctions and International Sales—An Inquiry into International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation, which was awarded the Professor Walther Hug Prize in 2015. She is also the author of numerous publications in the areas of international arbitration, international trade, contracts, economic sanctions and mediation. Her academic research has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and three renowned Swiss private foundations (Société académique de Genève, Fondation Boninchi, Fondation Schmidheiny).
She has taught at the European Law Students’ Association’s Summer Law School on Arbitration (2017), given guest lectures at the University of Geneva Law School (2013-2014), at Fordham University School of Law (2010) and at Columbia Law School (2009), and is regularly invited to speak at conferences. Dr Azeredo da Silveira is fluent in French, English and Persian.
Klaus Peter Berger is professor of domestic and international business and banking law, comparative and private international law at the University of Cologne, director of the Institute for Banking Law and the Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL) at the Cologne law faculty. He has been Honorary Lecturer and Member of the Global Faculty at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee (2000-2012), and visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville (1999), Asser Institute, The Hague (1997-2004), and at Columbia Law School, New York City (2014).
Professor Berger is a practicing international arbitrator and member of the panel of arbitrators of the China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC, Beijing, China), ICDR, International Arbitration Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) Panel of Arbitrators for Financial Services Disputes, P.R.I.M.E. Finance, and Driver Contract Recognition Board (CRB, Formula 1), Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA).
Professor Berger is author of more than 200 publications on domestic and international arbitration, contract law, trade law, comparative law, M&A, banking and finance. See for a full list www.klauspeterberger.de. He is the inventor and operator of the TransLex-web-platform on transnational law, www.trans-lex.org, and the Director of the annual "Cologne Academies" on International Arbitration & International Business Mediation (www.cologne-academies.com).
Professor Berger is past President and member of the Board of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS). He is also member of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law and co-editor of Arbitration International.
Peter & Partners International Ltd, Switzerland
Christoph Brunner has been practising dispute resolution for over 20 years. He has acted as counsel, presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and legal expert in more than 80 international commercial arbitrations governed by various procedural and substantive laws, including Swiss, California, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish and UAE law (among others).
His range of expertise covers in particular M&A, joint ventures, construction/infrastructure projects, sales and distribution and agency contracts. He is recommended for arbitration and litigation in Who’s Who Legal since 2013 and is considered by clients and his peers as an "excellent, knowledgeable and fair" lawyer (WWL, 2017).
LL.M. (Berkeley); PhD, Titular professor for commercial law and arbitration (University of Bern); member of the Court of the Swiss Chambers Arbitration Institution (SCAI); member of various arbitration institutions; author of several books and numerous articles on commercial law and international arbitration, in particular the treatise "Force Majeure and Hardship under General Contract Principles" and a Commentary on the CISG.
Filip De Ly teaches private international law, comparative law, international business law and international arbitration law and is doing research on international business law and international commercial arbitration.
Professor De Ly has written 5 books (including his dissertation International business law and lex mercatoria, Amsterdam, North Holland 1992 and his inaugural address in Dutch on the European Union and private law harmonization) and co-authored/edited 6 books including a book on The place of arbitration. He published some 110 articles in the field of international business law, international commercial arbitration, conflict of laws, comparative law and EC business law. Also, he published 16 case notes and some fifty reports and book reviews.
He is frequently retained as counsel, expert witness or arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations and often gives legal opinions with regard to international business law problems. He acted in more than two hundred arbitrations in the capacity of expert witness, sole arbitrator (50 cases), co-arbitrator (69 cases) or chairman of the arbitral tribunal (61 cases).
Filip De Ly studied at Ghent Law School (Belgium) and obtained a LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School in 1983. He has worked for the US-law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Brussels (1983-1986) and as a Associate Professor at Utrecht Law School (The Netherlands) before becoming a professor at the Law Faculty of Erasmus University in 1992. He is a Belgian citizen who has been working and living in The Netherlands for the past twenty-nine years.
Prof Dr H. Ercüment Erdem is the Founder and Senior Partner of Erdem&Erdem. He has more than 30-year experience in arbitration, international commercial law, competition and antitrust law, mergers and acquisitions, privatizations and corporate finance. He serves international and national clients in a variety of industries including energy, construction, finance, retail, real estate, aerospace, healthcare and insurance.
He has acted as chairman and sole or party-appointed arbitrator in many international and national arbitrations under different rules including International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Arbitration, Swiss Arbitration, Moscow Arbitration, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Arbitration, Tehran Arbitration, and ad hoc arbitrations and is, furthermore, distinguished in this field.
He is a commercial law professor lectured in leading universities such as Galatasaray University in Turkey and Fribourg University in Switzerland. He has over 30 year experience as a scholar and his research contains arbitration, competition and antitrust, international commercial law, M&A, corporate law etc.
Prof Erdem is a member of International Bar Association, Istanbul Bar Association, Co-chair of ICC CLP Commission and member of ICC Arbitration Commission, ICC Court of Arbitration, ICC Institute Counsel, ICC Turkish National Committee Arbitration, Istanbul Arbitration Centre (ISTAC) and Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage (ASA).
Marcel Fontaine is Professor emeritus at the University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). He has also taught as a guest professor or lecturer in numerous other universities. His main legal fields of expertise are the law of contracts and the law of insurance, domestic, international and comparative.
He has been the reporter for several chapters in the working group of UNIDROIT in charge of drafting Principles for International Commercial Contracts. He was the expert in charge of drafting a Uniform Act on the Law of Contracts for the 17 African countries of OHADA. He has chaired the Working Group on International Contracts for 17 years. He has advised governements of several countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Central Asia, on preparing insurance legislation, and he has written the draft of the Luxembourg law on insurance contracts. He is Honorary President of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA). He has been a member, for 22 years, of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. He regularly serves as an arbitrator in domestic and international disputes, both ad hoc and institutional (ICC, LCIA, CEPANI), mostly concerning contracts, insurance and reinsurance disputes (over 150 cases, most often as chairman of the Tribunal). He is the author of several books and over 260 articles. He is doctor honoris causa of the Universities of Montpellier, Bourgogne, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne et Geneva.