Fabio Bortolotti

 

 

For more than 40 years Fabio Bortolotti has been dealing with international contracts, not only as professor of International Commercial Law at the University of Torino, but also as counsel assisting companies in negotiating and drafting international transactions and in dealing with possible disputes before courts and arbitral tribunals.

He is founding partner of the law firm Buffa, Bortolotti & Mathis, Torino. He has acted and is at present engaged as arbitrator or counsel in several international and domestic arbitrations. He is an accredited mediator, Center for Dispute Resolution (CEDR).

Fabio Bortolotti is co-chair of the Commission on Commercial Law and Practice (CLP) of the International Chamber of Commerce and has chaired various task forces which have drafted the major ICC model contracts (e.g. commercial agency, distributorship, sale, occasional intermediaries, turnkey, M&A, trademark license).

He is member of the council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration, of the ICC Commission on Competition and vice-chair of ICC Italy. He is member of various associations: "Associazione Italiana per l’Arbitrato (AIA), "Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit E.V." (DIS); "Union Internationale des Avocat" (U.I.A.); "Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage" (A.S.A.). He is founder and chairman of the International Distribution Institute.

He is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of the international commercial contracts, contract law, distribution law, conflict of laws, international litigation and arbitration.

Dorothy Ufot, SAN

 

 

Mrs Ufot is the founding partner of Dorothy Ufot & Co, a leading law firm in Nigeria since 1994, where she heads the international arbitration and litigation departments of the firm.

Dorothy specialises in international arbitration, litigation and other forms of dispute resolution, including investment treaty arbitration, enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, investment consulting, corporate and commercial law.

Dorothy was elevated to the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), the equivalent of the English Queen’s Counsel, in April 2009, in recognition of her vast work in commercial litigation.

Dorothy is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK and a chartered arbitrator. She is a former member of the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Paris

 

(2006 -2018) and a member of the Court of Arbitration of the Casablanca International Mediation and Arbitration Centre (CIMAC) Morocco (2016).

Dorothy was designated to serve a six-year term on the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in February 2017 and she is currently on her third ICSID case, pursuant to her appointment as a member of the panel of Arbitrators by ICSID.