David L. Attanasio

David L. Attanasio is an Associate in the International Arbitration Group of Dechert LLP. He has experience in the energy, oil and gas, mining, gambling, Internet, and construction sectors, including in central Europe and Latin America. Prior to joining Dechert, Dr Attanasio received a Fulbright Fellowship following law school to conduct research in Bogota on remedies for human rights violations, research that was carried out while also holding a visiting professorship at the Universidad de los Andes. He also taught law at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota. Dr Attanasio earned his PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, his JD from Harvard Law School, his MA from University of California, and his BA from Tufts University.

Simon Batifort

Simon Batifort is an Associate in the international arbitration group of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, based in the New York office. He is dual-qualified to practice in France and in New York, and holds advanced degrees in civil law, common law, and public and private international law. His practice focuses on investor–state and international commercial arbitration, with a particular emphasis on disputes arising out of bilateral investment treaties. He has acted as counsel in numerous arbitrations conducted under the ICSID, UNCITRAL and ICC rules, in cases involving various industries, including oil and gas, construction and telecommunications.

Mr Batifort was named in Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration — Future Leaders 2017. He received an LLM in international legal studies from New York University School of Law and MA. degrees in international business law and public international law from Pantheon-Assas University (Paris II). While completing his LLM, he served as a research assistant for Professor Jose E Alvarez and worked as a graduate editor for the Journal of International Law and Politics. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Perry S. Bechky

Perry Bechky has over twenty years of experience as an international lawyer. He is a Partner at Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP in Washington, DC and a visiting scholar at Seattle University School of Law. Earlier in his career, Mr Bechky practiced law at two global law firms and the US Department of the Treasury, taught at two law schools, and started his own boutique international law firm. Mr Bechky frequently writes and lectures about investment arbitration. Mr Bechky graduated from Stanford University and Columbia Law School.

Olga Beloded

Olga Beloded is Counsel in Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle’s Tax group. Her practice focuses on providing advice to clients on tax aspects of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, including taxable and tax-free acquisitions and dispositions, corporate restructurings and workouts, and on tax efficient US inbound and outbound investment structures. Ms Beloded provides advice to domestic and foreign multinationals on international tax issues in cross-border transactions and internal tax planning matters, including issues relating to foreign tax credits, subpart F, passive foreign investment company rules, foreign investment in US real property, tax issues in connection with oil and gas projects and treaty planning.

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Marco Blanco

Marco Blanco is a US-qualified international tax partner and the Co-Head of the Tax Group at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. Based in Paris, he has had many years of experience on a broad range of domestic and international tax matters, including formation and structuring of investment funds, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and workouts, corporate reorganisations and capital market offerings. Much of his experience relates to representing multinational corporations in structuring their global activities in a tax efficient manner. He also assists financial institutions in developing cross-border structures for their international private clients. Mr Blanco has recently lectured on the following topics: tax issues relating to oil and gas projects; tax legislation affecting the oil and gas industry; double non-taxation and the tax treatment of intangibles; the US transfer pricing system; tax issues that arise in structuring infrastructure transactions.

Brian Bombassaro

Brian Bombassaro serves as International Trade Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Finance. Previously, Mr Bombassaro was an Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, DC, where he practiced in foreign investment arbitration, sovereign finance, and international trade. His experience includes advocacy on behalf of sovereign governments and private investors in international arbitration proceedings, as well as advising governments and fund managers on financial transactions and investments. Mr Bombassaro graduated from Yale Law School, where he served on the Yale Law Journal, and he earned a Master in Public Policy (International Trade & Finance) from the Harvard Kennedy School and BSBA and BA degrees from the University of Florida.

Jean C. Choi

Ms Jean Choi currently serves as an Attorney at the US Department of Education. She previously practiced as an Associate at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, where her work centered on international investment arbitration and antitrust. While at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Ms Choi published articles in the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, including “Three Recent Decisions on Counterclaims in Investment Treaty Cases” on 13–14 October, 2015, and “Mediation of Investor-State Disputes: Revisiting the Prospects” on 14 June, 2013. Ms Choi received her Juris Doctor and Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University and Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, from Seoul National University, Korea.

Erin Culbertson

Erin Culbertson is an Associate in the Washington, DC office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and a member of the firm’s Litigation and Arbitration Group. She represents clients from a variety of industries in complex disputes, including in international arbitration, commercial litigation, and insolvency proceedings. Ms Culbertson has advised clients with respect to sovereign debt issues, the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the False Claims Act, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. She is a two-time recipient of Milbank’s Pro Bono Achievement Award.

Kabir Duggal

Kabir Duggal is a Senior Associate in Baker McKenzie’s International Arbitration Practice Group in New York. He is a Lecturer-in-Law at the Columbia Law School, teaching “International Investment Law and Arbitration” and a Consultant at the United Nations (UN-OHRLLS). He regularly writes and speaks on international arbitration issues. Mr Duggal is a graduate of the University of Mumbai (University Medal), University of Oxford (Oxford Law Faculty Scholar and DHL-Times of India Scholar) and NYU School of Law (Hauser Global Scholar and Transitional Justice Fellow). He is admitted to practice law in New York, England and Wales (Solicitor) and India.

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Claudia Frutos-Peterson

Dr Frutos-Peterson is the Managing Partner of the Washington DC. office of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle. Formerly, Dr Frutos-Peterson was counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) from 2001 to 2009. At ICSID, she served as Secretary of Tribunals in numerous arbitral proceedings brought under the ICSID Convention and the ICSID Additional Facility Mechanism, based on the bilateral and multilateral investment treaties. She focuses her practice on arbitration, international law and international investment law and works with multiple governments and state entities. She has represented foreign states in investor-state arbitrations under the Arbitration Rules of ICSID and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Dr Frutos-Peterson is an Adjunct Professor at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars in the United States and abroad. She authored the book L’émergence de l’arbitrage commercial international en Amérique latine: l’efficacité de son droit, published by L’Harmattan. Dr Frutos-Peterson has a Master of Laws in International Legal Studies with Honors from Georgetown University and a Doctorate in Law, summa cum laude, from the Universite de Paris-Pantheon-Sorbonne I.

Miriam Harwood

Miriam K. Harwood is a Partner in the international arbitration group of Curtis, Mallet- Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, based in the New York office, with over 25 years of experience in dispute resolution. Her practice focuses on arbitrations in both commercial disputes and investor–state treaty cases, particularly as counsel for states, state-owned entities and governmental agencies, including cases in the oil and gas and construction industries. She has acted as counsel in cases administered by the major international arbitral organisations, under the rules of ICC, ICSID and UNCITRAL, as well as ad hoc cases. In addition to international arbitration, Ms Harwood has practised commercial litigation in the US courts, including contract disputes, bankruptcy proceedings and matters involving international law. Ms Harwood frequently lectures on international arbitration at professional and academic conferences around the world. She received her Juris Doctor degree at Fordham University Law School in New York, where she was an editor of the International Law Journal, and is admitted to practise in New York and Washington, DC.

David Hesse

David Hesse is a Partner in the Global Arbitration Group at Clyde & Co specialising in the oil and gas industry with a strong Africa focus. His practice in the oil and gas industry focuses on advising states and national oil and gas companies on their disputes, settlements, upstream activities, as well as international tenders, refinery projects, farm-out agreements and other contracts in the petroleum and petrochemical industries. His practice includes numerous international commercial arbitration matters involving states and state entities in North East and West Africa. Mr Hesse is a recognised lawyer in Chambers Global and Legal 500. Mr Hesse has extensive experience before international institutions including the ICC and ICSID. Mr Hesse is an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee and a lecturer at the CWC School for Energy. He is a regular speaker at international arbitration and energy conferences, including Juris Conference, GAR Energy Disputes and GAR Live. Prior to joining Clyde & Co, Mr Hesse was a partner at Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP for 10 years.

Matthew Kirtland

Matthew Kirtland is the Co-Partner-in-Charge and Co-Head of Disputes of the Washington, DC office of Norton Rose Fulbright. Since joining Norton Rose Fulbright in 1997, he has focused his practice on dispute resolution, with an emphasis on international arbitration, complex commercial litigation and arbitration and white collar defense. He leads the Washington office international arbitration practice and transnational litigation practice. He has represented corporate and individual clients from a diverse range of business sectors. Mr Kirtland has first and second-chair experience in international and domestic arbitration, and federal and state court, both at the trial and appellate level. In the field of international arbitration, he has handled proceedings before the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the American

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Arbitration Association (AAA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). He also has handled ad hoc proceedings using the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) rules, as well as other, more specialised rules of procedure. He has extensive experience in arbitration-related litigation, including recognition and enforcement proceedings, including proceedings involving the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

Ian Laird

Ian A. Laird is Co-chair of Crowell & Moring’s International Dispute Resolution Group and an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center. He is recognised as a leading practitioner in the arbitration field by the International Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration 2017. Ian is best known for being lead counsel for Khan Resources Inc., which secured a US$100 million international arbitration award against the Government of Mongolia.

As a former chief of staff to a Canadian cabinet minister and a senior political aide to the Ontario Minister of Energy, Mr Laird understands the intimate workings of government and politics, as well as their impact on industry. For over 15 years, he has counseled parties in investment arbitrations under the provisions of NAFTA, CAFTA-DR, and the Energy Charter Treaty. Mr Laird works primarily with clients involving issues in the energy and natural resources sector — such as power generation, oil and gas, and mining. He is currently counsel on numerous investment treaty arbitrations and disputes, most recently involving the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Turkey. Mr Laird serves as co-director of the International Investment Law Center (International Law Institute), in Washington, DC, and he has co-edited 13 books, including the book series Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law (Volume 10 was recently published by Juris Publishing).

John Laird

John Laird is a Solicitor-Advocate and Associate at Crowell & Moring’s London office, where he is a member of the International Dispute Resolution and Antitrust Recovery groups. Mr Laird has represented clients in both commercial and investment arbitration in proceedings under the rules of ICSID, UNCITRAL, the ICC, the ICDR, the LCIA and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, involving private parties and states from North, Central and South America, Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East. In addition, his practice involves a wide variety of commercial litigation in the English High Court, including the pursuit and defence of competition claims. Mr Laird is the winner of the 2011 ICSID Review Student Writing Competition, a graduate of Somerville College, University of Oxford, and completed the GDL and LPC for admission as a solicitor of England and Wales with BPP University of Professional Studies.

Juan Felipe Merizalde Urdaneta

Juan Felipe Merizalde is a Special Legal Consultant of Dechert LLP in its Washington D.C. office. He frequently advises on international disputes involving Spanish and Latin American parties. He has acted in several investment arbitration cases in disputes involving the oil & gas, construction, energy, mining, and pharmaceutical industries. Prior to joining Dechert’s Washington, DC office in 2011,

Mr Merizalde Urdaneta worked in the firm’s Paris office for two years and previously worked in the litigation and arbitration departments of two Colombian law firms. His experience also includes serving as an intern for the ICC International Court of Arbitration. Mr Merizalde Urdaneta has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than 30 cases, and is part of the Arbitrators Panel of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce (International Arbitration and List B). He is a member of the recently created Task Force of the ICC Commission on Arbitration on “Maximizing the Probative Value of Witness Evidence.” MrMerizalde Urdaneta is admitted to practice in New York and Colombia. He also sat for and passed the Paris Bar Examination. New York University, LLM, International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration, 2011. Universite Pantheon Assas (Paris II), Master 2, Private Law, 2008. Universidad del Rosario, Law Degree, 2007. Universite Pantheon Assas (Paris II), Master 1, International Law, 2006.

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Michael Nolan

Michael Nolan is a Partner in the Washington, DC office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He is consistently recognised as a leading international practitioner by Chambers USA, Euromoney, and other publications, and he represents companies and states in court proceedings involving sovereign immunity, act of state, and recognition and enforcement of foreign judicial and non-judicial awards. Mr Nolan is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the American Arbitration Association, the Users Council of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, and the ICSID panel of arbitrators.

Hernando Otero

Hernando Otero is a Fellow and a lecturer at the American University Washington College of Law Center on International Commercial Arbitration where he teaches international arbitration and mediation. He is the Center’s lead lecturer in its annual course on mediation theory and practice offered jointly with JAMS. He also serves as a peer-reviewed mediator with the District of Columbia’s Superior Court.

He has served as an arbitrator before the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and has been appointed as an arbitrator by the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Court of Arbitration, the Bogota Chamber of Commerce Arbitration and Conciliation Center’s (CAC) Court of Arbitration and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He has appeared as counsel of record in proceedings under the ICSID Convention, the ICSID Additional Facility and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules pursuant to multilateral and bilateral trade and investment treaties (FTAs and BITs) and commercial agreements. He is also on the London Court International Arbitration’s (LCIA) database of arbitrators and on the panel of international arbitrators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC) and the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA).

Joseph R. Profaizer

Joseph R. Profaizer is a Partner at Paul Hastings LLP, the head of Paul Hastings’ international arbitration practice, and a vice-chair of the firm’s Washington, DC office. Mr Profaizer, a US-qualified attorney and English-qualified Solicitor, has served as counsel in threatened or actual litigation or arbitration in over 45 countries and under the rules of all major international arbitral institutions. An adjunct professor of international arbitration and litigation at Georgetown University Law School, he has been repeatedly recognised by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Legal 500 (United States), Global Arbitration Review, and Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration as a leading attorney in international arbitration. He holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, a JD from the University of Texas School of Law, and an LLM from the London School of Economics.

Jose Antonio Rivas

Dr Jose Antonio Rivas, Managing Director at Vannin Capital, focuses on dispute resolution and representation of sovereign states and private sector companies in international arbitration, litigation and public international law matters. Currently, he represents a sovereign State in DR-CAFTA disputes; and a Turkish energy company in an ICSID dispute. His professional experience includes acting as counsel in international arbitrations under the Rules of ICSID, the ICC, and UNCITRAL. He has advised sovereign States on model investment treaties, and matters concerning the law of the sea, and protection of cultural heritage.

He is a former ICSID counsel, and an experienced treaty negotiator as a result of his services as head of investment treaty negotiations for Colombia with over 12 countries. There, he also headed the drafting and updating of the New Colombian Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) Model and the investment dispute prevention policy. Dr Rivas is currently adjunct professor of the seminar Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public International Law at Georgetown University Law Center, from which he graduated as an SJD.

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Christopher Ryan

Christopher Ryan is a Partner in the International Arbitration Group at Shearman & Sterling. His practice focuses on commercial and investment disputes, with a particular emphasis on construction, energy, mining, infrastructure, and petrochemical sectors. He regularly advises governments and private clients on issues of public and private international law, investment policy, and strategies for mitigating the risks associated with foreign investment. He is a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law and the George Washington University School of Law, where he teaches courses on international investment arbitration and international commercial arbitration.

Borzu Sabahi

Dr Borzu Sabahi is a Partner in the International Arbitration Group of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP in Washington, DC. He primarily represents governments and state-owned entities in international arbitration and public international disputes. He is recognised as a leading practitioner in the field of international arbitration by the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Who’s Who of International Commercial Arbitration. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Co-Director of the ILI International Investment Law Center. His publications have been cited by international tribunals as well as the United States Supreme Court. He is admitted to practice in New York and Washington, DC.

James J. Saulino

James (J.J.) Saulino is a Counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, DC office and a member of the firm’s International Trade and International Dispute Resolution groups. In his trade practice, J.J. advises both US and international firms on compliance with international trade regulations administered by the US Departments of State, Commerce, Treasury, and Homeland Security. In his dispute resolution practice, J.J. represents clients in the context of both commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. J.J. holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Christina Trahanas

Christina Trahanas is a Barrister at Eleven Wentworth Chambers, Sydney, Australia. Prior to being called to the Bar, Christina was an Associate in the international arbitration group of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, New York. At Curtis, her practice focused on investorstate arbitration and international commercial arbitration. She was involved in proceedings conducted under the rules of ICSID, UNCITRAL, the ICC and SIAC, including proceedings related to the energy resources sector and construction sector. Her prior experience also includes working at the Office of International Law within the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, where she provided international law advice to the Australian government. Ms Trahanas is admitted to practise in New York and Australia. She received an LLM from New York University School of Law and her Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Marat Umerov

Marat Umerov is a Counsel in the Washington, DC office of Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP. Dr Umerov represents clients in international dispute resolution and international trade matters related to metals and mining, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications and other sectors. Dr Umerov specialises on international arbitrations under the rules of various dispute resolution fora. In international trade, he represents companies and governments in countervailing duty investigations and in court proceedings related to agencies’ determinations. Dr Umerov served as secretary of arbitral tribunals and assisted tribunal secretaries at ICSID in disputes arising under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, contracts, and host countries’ investment laws. Dr Umerov has given lectures on substantive and procedural subjects of international arbitration at the International Law Institute.

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Series Editors

Arthur E. Appleton

Arthur Appleton, JD, PhD is a Founding Partner of Appleton Luff – International Lawyers (www.appletonluff.com) a boutique international trade, investment and arbitration firm with offices in Barcelona, Brussels, Geneva, Kampala, Singapore, Warsaw, and Washington, DC. His practice focuses on trade, investment and arbitration matters. He also serves as an International Trade Advisor for the Commercial Law Development Program, and for several years served as a Senior Trade and Investment Consultant for the World Bank working on investment projects in Kazakhstan, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. Dr Appleton is an Adjunct Professor of International Trade Law at Johns Hopkins University (SAIS - Europe), part of the Visiting Faculty at the World Trade Institute (University of Bern) where he serves on the Board, and he teaches in various programmes at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva). He is regularly invited to lecture on international trade and investment matters at conferences and universities throughout the world. Arthur has published several books and approximately 45 articles on trade, investment and arbitration issues, including The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis (with Patrick Macrory and Michael Plummer as co-editors).

Patrick Macrory

Patrick Macrory has practised and taught trade law in Washington, DC, for more than 40 years. Mr Macrory is a former English barrister who was at the firm of Arnold & Porter for 22 years, 15 as a partner. From 1990 to 1997 he was a senior partner at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and in 1997 he became a senior consultant (part-time) to that firm. His practice was focused on the field of trade remedies and customs law. He received his BA in 1962 and his MA in 1964 from Oxford University. He practiced as a barrister in London before moving to the United States in 1968. He received his LLM from George Washington University in 1971. He is Director of the International Trade Law Center at the International Law Institute, Washington, DC and a partner in the law firm of Appleton Luff, with offices in Barcelona, Brussels, Geneva, Kampala, Singapore, Warsaw, and Washington, DC.

Mr Macrory was Co-Chairman of the International Trade Committee of the American Bar Association from 1983 to 1984. He has taught trade law at universities in London, Washington and Tokyo. Since 2002 he has several times a year run a course that he designed on trade law for the US Foreign Service Institute.

Mr Macrory has written and spoken extensively on international trade law subjects. He was Editor-in-Chief of the three-volume, The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic, and Political Analysis (with Arthur Appleton and Michael Plummer as co-editors), described by one reviewer as “the standard reference tool for trade experts and professionals”.