Rafael Francisco Alves
is a Partner at Souto Correa Advogados and Professor at fgv São Paulo Law School (fgv direito sp). He is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (cpr) and Officer of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr). He holds a Ph.D, Master of Laws and Bachelor of Laws from University of São Paulo (usp) and also an ll.m. from New York University (nyu), where he was an Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholar. He regularly sits as arbitrator.
Rafael Stefanini Auilo
holds Ph.D. e M.Sc. degrees from the University of São Paulo Law School, Brazil. Rafael is trained in Brazilian law and holds an llb (hons) from the São Paulo Catholic Pontifical University Law School. Rafael acted as visiting-professor and visiting-scholar at University of Messina Law School, Italy (2013). Rafael is a partner at Yarshell Advogados and has handled several domestic and international arbitrations, both as lawyer and arbitrator, across a broad range of sectors, including energy, mining, insurance, construction, pulp and paper, aviation, and food and beverages.
Zeinab Bailoun
is an associate at Baker Botts llp, with a focus on high-stakes, complex commercial litigation and international arbitration.
Jessica Beess und Chrostin
is a Partner in King & Spalding’s International Disputes Group. Jessica’s practice focuses on complex international dispute resolution, with particular expertise in high-stakes commercial, investor-state, construction, and global award enforcement disputes. Jessica regularly represents clients in international disputes in the infrastructure, oil and gas, mining, construction, and renewable energy sectors, and has significant experience in consumer goods, real estate, and telecommunications disputes. Jessica has been recognized by iflr Americas as a Rising Star in Commercial Arbitration and by cpr as a Rising Star in Alternative Dispute Resolution. She is also ranked by Who’s Who Legal as a Future Leader in International Arbitration.
is a partner at Baker Botts llp in New York. His practice focuses on international disputes with a particular emphasis on international arbitration. Andrew advises clients on a wide range of matters and claims covering a broad spectrum of industries before international tribunals such as the icc and aaa/icdr.
Yining Bei
is an associate at Baker Botts llp, with a focus on high-stakes, complex commercial litigation and international arbitration.
Gary L. Benton
C.Arb, F.CIArb, F.CollArb, is an internationally recognized Arbitrator based in Palo Alto, California. He focuses on U.S. and international business, corporate investment, technology, ip and emerging growth matters. He is qualified as a U.S. lawyer (NY, ca and DC) and an English solicitor, and serves on the Adjunct Faculty at Santa Clara University Law School.
Caetano Berenguer
is a Partner at Sergio Bermudes Advogados. With more than twenty years of practice as both lawyer and arbitrator in high-value litigation and commercial arbitration, Caetano has been recognized by various market-leading legal rankings, such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 Latin America, Leaders League, Benchmark Litigation, and the Best Lawyers. He is a guest lecturer at the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets (Ibmec), in Sao Paulo, and holds an ll.m. degree from Columbia Law School.
George A. Bermann
is the director of the Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School. He is a world-renowned authority on comparative law, EU law, international trade contracts, wto dispute resolution, and transnational litigation and arbitration. For more than four decades, he has been an active international arbitrator in commercial and investment disputes in all sectors, including general commercial contract, construction, intellectual property, energy, oil and gas, competition law, insurance, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, distributorship and franchising, transportation, and employment. He also serves regularly as an expert witness before international arbitral tribunals as well as before courts in arbitral-related cases. Bermann joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 1975. He founded both
João Lucas Bevilacqua
is a Partner at Sergio Bermudes Advogados. He is a dual-qualified lawyer admitted to practice in New York and in Brazil. He holds an ll.b. from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (puc-sp) and an ll.m. from the New York University School of Law.
Preeti Bhagnani
is a Partner in the International Arbitration practice of White & Case, based in New York. With nearly two decades of experience, she represents private companies and sovereign States in commercial and investor-state disputes in all major arbitral fora. She has handled dozens of arbitrations across a broad range of sectors, including energy, mining, insurance and life sciences. She formerly served as in-house counsel at a global energy company. Preeti is trained in New York, Singapore and English law, and holds an llb (Hons) from the London School of Economics, and an ll.m. from Columbia Law School.
R. Doak Bishop
is a partner in King & Spalding’s Houston office and a founding member of the firm’s International Disputes Practice Group. The firm’s International Disputes Practice Group has been ranked numerous years as No. 1 Worldwide by Global Arbitration Review, International Practice Group of the Year by Law360. Mr. Bishop specializes in international arbitration, with a focus on Latin America. With extensive experience in litigation and international arbitration, Mr. Bishop has served both as an arbitrator and counsel. He represents clients in disputes concerning oil and gas and energy, renewable energy, power plant and turbine generator, public utilities and infrastructure, mining, aviation, it, data processing and software, foreign investment, construction and environmental matters. Doak has served on the boards of directors of the major arbitral institutions such as the Institute of Transnational Arbitration. American Arbitration Association (aaa) and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the North American Free Trade Act (nafta) Advisory Committee
Jonathan I. Blackman
is senior counsel at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton llp in New York. His practice focuses on litigation, including international litigation and arbitration, banking, and insurance law. He has participated in numerous international arbitrations involving both public international law and complex commercial disputes, litigation involving the immunity of foreign states and their agencies under the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and commercial litigation in a variety of U.S. federal and state courts.
Michael B. Carlinsky
is the Co-Global Managing Partner, Global Head of Complex Litigation, Co-Chair of Insurance Litigation and Co-Head of Brazil Practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
Carlos Alberto Carmona
is a Professor of Procedural Law and Arbitration at the University of Sao Paulo. He is a lawyer registered in the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo section, since 1981. Expert in civil procedure, litigation and arbitration, Carmona is a Partner of Marques Rosado, Toledo Cesar & Carmona Advogados. He is also a member of the Associação dos Advogados de São Paulo (Association of Lawyers of São Paulo) and former President of the Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Processual (Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law). Carmona was part of the Commission responsible for the drafting of the Brazilian Arbitration Law.
Peter E. Carzis
is an Associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton llp in New York in the litigation and arbitration practice group.
is an associate at Tannuri Advogados, a distinguished boutique law firm in Brazil specializing in high-value complex arbitration and litigation. He holds a bachelor degree from the school of law of fgv-sp.
Eduardo Damião Gonçalves
is a partner at Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados. He represents clients in domestic and international arbitration matters related to mergers and acquisitions, corporate disputes, infrastructure, and particularly in conflicts arising from construction agreements and public concessions. He also represents clients in complex litigation in the areas of environmental law, information technology, infrastructure, and arbitration-related disputes. Eduardo has been the vice president of the International Chamber of Commerce’s (icc) International Court of Arbitration since 2018, and a member of the International Council for International Arbitration’s (icca) governing body since 2022. He was a founder and former president of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee, and remains a board member. Eduardo was also previously the vice president of the Latin American Arbitration Association (alarb) and the International Bar Association’s (iba) Arbitration Committee. He holds an ll.b degree from Universidade de São Paulo (usp), an ll.m degree from Université de Paris ii, and a Ph.D degree from usp.
Erico Bomfim de Carvalho
is a partner at Advocacia Velloso. He is specialized in international arbitration and in litigating high-profile cases before the Brazilian Supreme Court (stf) and the Superior Court of Justice (stj). Erico holds an ll.m. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a recipient of the Parker School Certificate of Achievement in Foreign and Comparative Law.
Katharine Menéndez de la Cuesta
is a partner of Holland & Knight’s Miami office. Clients rely on her experience to represent them in international arbitration proceedings in English and Spanish, and in litigation matters before U.S. federal and state courts in New York and Florida. Ms. Menéndez de la Cuesta has handled international arbitrations applying the laws of New York, Florida, Illinois, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Colombia, and Guatemala, among other jurisdictions, and administered by the main arbitral institutions. She has acted as administrative secretary of arbitral tribunals and been appointed as arbitrator. She was a representative for North America of the icc’s Young Arbitrators Forum (yaf) for its 2019–2021 mandate.
Kabir Duggal
is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School (cicia) and an attorney in Arnold and Porter's New York office, focusing on international arbitration and public international law matters, serving both as arbitrator and mediator. He is recognized as a “Chartered Arbitrator” (the highest ranking for arbitrators) by both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is also a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, an adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, and a Course Director and a Faculty Member for the Columbia Law School-Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Comprehensive Course on International Arbitration.
Marcel Engholm
is an associate with Chaffetz Lindsey llp in New York. Marcel handles arbitration and litigation disputes in contractual, construction, oil & gas, and reinsurance matters. Marcel is experienced in civil and common law systems, having practiced law in Brazil and in New York. Marcel has represented clients from North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia in matters under the icc, scc, uncitral, ccbc, and fiesp rules, as well as in various courts in the U.S. and in Brazil. He holds a law degree from Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, a Master’s degree from the University of Sao Paulo and an ll.m. from New York University.
John Fellas
is full-time arbitrator at Fellas Arbitration; adjunct professor of law, New York University School of Law; honorary professor of law, Durham Law School.
Michael A. Fernández
is a Partner at Cozen O’Connor and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law whose practice is focused on complex and cross-border commercial litigation, international commercial and investor-state arbitration, and corporate internal investigations.
Andrew Finn
is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Litigation Group and the head of S&C’s International Arbitration and Global Dispute Resolution Practice. His practice
Peter Fox
is a partner at the law firm of Scoolidge Peters Russotti & Fox llp, where his practice focuses on international commercial arbitration and transnational litigation, among other areas of dispute resolution. He is admitted to practice, and has filed briefs, in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Elliot Friedman
is a Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer U.S. llp.
James Fullmer
is an attorney admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, United States. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and of Harvard Law School. Prior to entering private practice, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable G. Murray Snow of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
Katie L. Gonzalez
is a senior associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton llp in New York. Her practice focuses on international litigation and arbitration, with an emphasis on Latin America. Katie has significant experience representing sovereign and private entities in commercial and investor-state arbitration matters, as well as in state and federal courts. Katie is also an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School, where she teaches a course on international arbitration. Who’s Who Legal has recognized Katie as a “Future Leader in International Arbitration.”
Surya Gopalan
is an Associate in the International Arbitration practice of White & Case, based in New York. He advises and represents sovereign states and private clients in high-stakes disputes around the world involving a range of industries. Surya has an ll.m from Columbia University and a ll.b / B.Ec. from the University of Sydney. He is a member of the bars of New York and New South Wales (Australia).
is an independent arbitrator in New York, specializing in international, investor-state and complex commercial disputes. Prior to July 2020, he was a partner at Baker McKenzie, where he served as global co-head of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice. He has had leadership roles in several international arbitration institutions and was U.S. member on the icc’s International Court of Arbitration from 2015 to 2021. Mr. Hanessian is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law in New York, where he teaches the International Commercial Arbitration and ll.m. International Arbitration Practicum courses. He has edited six books on international arbitration subjects and authored more than fifty articles and book chapters. He is a frequent speaker at arbitration conferences and law schools around the world and annually recommended as an arbitrator by Chambers and other publications.
Samaa Haridi
is a Partner at King & Spalding llp, based in New York. Samaa is common and civil law trained and has significant experience representing clients in multi-jurisdictional international commercial and investment arbitration proceedings under the arbitration rules of all the major arbitral institutions. Samaa also frequently sits as an arbitrator in international commercial and investment disputes. Samaa is currently serving as an officer in a number of arbitral organizations, including as Vice-President of the icc International Court of Arbitration, and Member of icca’s Governing Board. Samaa has been recognized by clients and peers and repeatedly listed in Chambers USA and Chambers Global for International Arbitration. She is also recognized by The Legal 500, and by Who’s Who Legal: Global Elite Thought Leaders—Arbitration 2023. She is a member of the bars of New York, California, and England & Wales and is fluent in French and Arabic.
Stephen Hogan-Mitchell
is an associate in the International Arbitration practice of White & Case, based in New York. His practice focuses on complex commercial disputes across a variety of sectors, including technology, energy, insurance, and life sciences. Stephen holds a jd from Columbia Law School and is admitted to practice in New York.
James Hosking
originally from New Zealand, is a founding partner of New York-based Chaffetz Lindsey llp and leads the firm’s international arbitration practice. He has acted as counsel in disputes under all the leading rules, and sat as an arbitrator
Pedro José Izquierdo
is a special counsel in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Litigation Group and a member of the Firm’s International Arbitration and Latin America practices, where he focuses on complex international disputes under civil law, common law, and public international law. His practice encompasses commercial, investment and construction disputes in English and Spanish under the major international arbitration rules (icc, icdr, icsid, lcia, uncitral, etc.), acting both as counsel and in the preparation of legal expert reports for disputes in various jurisdictions.
Zachary Kady
is a senior associate in Gibson Dunn’s International Arbitration Group. He has 10 years of experience representing clients in commercial arbitrations as well as investor-state disputes before several arbitral institutions, including the icc, siac, aaa, jams, lcia, icsid, icdr, and more. Mr. Kady also has extensive experience litigating disputes in United States courts related to arbitration, including the enforcement of agreements to arbitrate, discovery related to arbitration, and disputes concerning the enforcement and vacatur of arbitration awards.
Sherman Kahn
with the law firm Maschoff Brennan. He is an arbitrator and represents clients in international arbitrations presenting complex technical and commercial issues. He has arbitrated under the icc, aaa, icdr, cpr, jcaa, hkiac, uncitral rules as well as other rules and pure ad hoc. He has sat as chair, sole arbitrator, and wing arbitrator in international and domestic arbitrations on subjects including it outsourcing, software development, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, mining, patent infringement, standard essential patents, trademark licensing, unfair competition and trade disparagement, and commercial issues. He has also provided advice regarding clause drafting and
Mark Kantor
is a retired partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (now Milbank llc), an international arbitrator in investment and commercial disputes, Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Transnational Dispute Management. He was a member of the World Bank Group Sanctions Board (term ended Fall 2021). He is a former member of the American Arbitration Association Board of Directors and the Council of the American Arbitration Association, and former Chair of the DC Bar International Investment Committee and the DC Bar International Dispute Resolution Committee. He has authored numerous works, including Reports of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations (eds. Mark Kantor, Michael D. Nolan and Karl P. Sauvant), Valuation for Arbitration: Compensation Standards, Valuation Methods and Expert Evidence (ogemid Best Book 2008) and “A Code of Conduct for Party-Appointed Experts in International Arbitration—Can One be Found?” 26 Arbitration International 323 (2010) (ogemid Best International Dispute Resolution Article 2010).
Lea Haber Kuck
is an independent arbitrator with more than three decades of experience in international and domestic dispute resolution under various arbitration rules and in the United States courts. Prior to launching her full-time arbitrator practice in 2022, she was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom llp in the international litigation and arbitration group advising clients from around the world on the resolution of complex disputes arising out of international business transactions.
Partner, Chaffetz Lindsey. Yasmine Lahlou, who is fluent in English, French and Italian and proficient in Portuguese, has over 20 years of experience in international arbitration, representing clients in energy, mining, construction, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, infrastructure, real estate, aviation, corporate disputes, among others, and has a leading foreign award and foreign judgment enforcement practice. Initially trained in Paris and admitted in Paris and New York, Yasmine is experienced in civil and common law systems. Yasmine has been counsel in dozens of arbitrations conducted under the icc, icdr, lcia, uncitral and ad hoc rules. She has acted as a presiding, sole and co‐arbitrator in icc, icdr/aaa, scc, crcica (in Cairo) and lcia arbitrations. Yasmine has been named one of 23 “Global Elite Thought Leaders” in North America—a title reserved for the top 2.5% of ranked practitioners considered the “very best by peers and clients, achieving the highest number of recommendations in the research”—by Who’s Who Legal 2024 Arbitration report, and she has been recognized by Legal 500, Chambers, and Super Lawyers—including her Latin America expertise.
Laura Lambert da Costa
is a senior associate at Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados. Her practice focuses on complex court litigation, arbitration and pre-litigation negotiations involving cross-border disputes in the areas of product liability, mergers and acquisitions, technology and environmental law. Laura has practiced at Latham & Watkins in New York and was a member of the Columbia International Arbitration Association in New York. She holds an ll.b degree from Universidade de São Paulo (usp) and an ll.m degree from Columbia Law School, where she graduated with James Kent Scholar honors.
Andre Luis Monteiro
is Of Counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Visiting Scholar at the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary, University of London (2018–2019). Junior Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford (2015–2016). PhD (2013–2017) and Master’s (2009–2012) degrees from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Alex Lupsaiu
is an associate at Chaffetz Lindsey llp in New York representing clients in international commercial arbitrations, commercial litigations, and bankruptcy matters across a variety of industry sectors including construction, energy, and
Dana MacGrath
is a full-time arbitrator based in New York. Previously she acted as counsel in domestic and international arbitrations with several leading law firms. She is an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law where she teaches international arbitration. Her arbitrator practice focuses on commercial disputes. She is co-chair of the International Committee of the aba Dispute Resolution Section and co-chair of the Large Complex Case Committee of the American Arbitration Association. She is the immediate past President of ArbitralWomen and currently co-chair of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge USA Subcommittee.
Ari D. MacKinnon
is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton llp in New York. His practice focuses on international arbitration matters in Latin America, with a focus on the oil and gas, energy, mining, infrastructure, and paper and pulp sectors. Ari has experience conducting arbitrations in both English and Spanish. Ari has been recognized as a banded lawyer for international arbitration by Chambers Latin America, Chambers Global and Chambers USA.
Peter J. Messitte†
was a United States District Judge for the District of Maryland for 30 years. He was Adjunct Professor of Comparative Law and Director of the Brazil-US Legal & Judicial Studies Program at American University Washington College of Law and Senior Advisor to the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Rahim Moloo
is a partner and global co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s International Arbitration Group. His practice focuses on complex commercial and investor-state disputes before courts and arbitral tribunals around the world. Mr. Moloo has been recognized as a global thought leader in international arbitration and has been recognized for his advocacy skills and expertise in handling international disputes by several publications and institutions, including Chambers Global, Law 360, Who’s Who Legal and Global Arbitration Review. Mr. Moloo is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and has published several books and articles on a wide range of topics in the field of international disputes.
is a counsel at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton llp in New York. His practice focuses on international commercial litigation and arbitration matters involving private as well as foreign sovereign parties. He is active in the New York City Bar Association and most recently Chaired the City Bar Working Group that published an extensive report on the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters and the U.N. Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation.
Caline Mouawad
is a partner at Chaffetz Lindsey llp in New York, Caline Mouawad has over 20 years of experience representing clients in international commercial arbitrations and investment treaty disputes, as well as related litigation matters, across the globe and in a variety of industry sectors. She acts as counsel in arbitrations conducted in English and French before all major arbitral institutions, and regularly serves as an arbitrator. Among other leadership roles, Caline serves as Vice-Chair of the icc Commission on Arbitration and adr and Vice-Chair of the iba Arbitration Committee.
Arthur Gonzalez Cronemberger Parente
is a partner at Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados, where he focuses on international and domestic arbitration, litigation, and pre-litigation negotiations involving M&A, securities, and commercial disputes. He regularly advises shareholders, boards of directors and executives on corporate governance conflicts, drawing on his extensive experience as a corporate lawyer in corporate and M&A transactions. He has also practiced at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris and at Boies Schiller Flexner in New York. He founded and presided over the Columbia International Arbitration Association in New York. He holds an ll.b degree from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (uerj) and an ll.m degree from Columbia Law School.
Laura França Pereira
an associate at Three Crowns llp, specializes in international commercial and investor-State arbitration. She has experience acting in complex and high-value disputes across a range of sectors, including banking and finance, energy, oil and gas, infrastructure, and retail. Laura has acted in proceedings under a number of arbitration rules, including icc, icsid, uncitral, lcia, and aaa-icdr. Laura holds an llm from Harvard Law School and an llb from University of São Paulo, where she graduated first in her class.
is the Executive Director of the New York International Arbitration Center (nyiac). Rekha is actively engaged with the arbitration community, including as Board Member of ArbitralWomen (aw) and leads its Cooperation and Global Events Committees. In parallel, Rekha maintains an active connection to academics as Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School and Cardozo School of Law.
Fabiano Robalinho
holds an ll.m from Harvard Law School. He is a professor at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas School of Law (fgv-rj), a partner at Sergio Bermudes Advogados and a member of the icc International Court of Arbitration.
Cameron Russell
is a Senior Associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer U.S. llp
Peter B. Rutledge
the holder of the Talmadge Chair of Law, became dean of the University of Georgia School of Law on January 1, 2015. He has written two books and over fifty articles on a wide array of topics, including international dispute resolution. He is the author of the book Arbitration and the Constitution and co-author with Gary Born of the book International Civil Litigation in United States Courts, the leading book in the field. His works have been published by the Yale University Press, the Oxford University Press and the Cambridge University Press, and his articles have appeared in a diverse array of journals such as The University of Chicago Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review and the Journal of International Arbitration.
Matheus Soubhia Sanches
is a partner at Tannuri Advogados, a distinguished boutique law firm in Brazil specializing in high-value complex arbitration and litigation. He holds an ll.m. degree from Columbia Law School and a master’s degree in civil law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. In late 2023, he worked as an International Temporary Associate in the litigation department at Davis Polk and Wardwell llp in New York.
Ank Santens
is a Partner in the International Arbitration practice of White & Case, based in New York. She serves as counsel or arbitrator in commercial, investment, and construction arbitrations around the world in a broad range of industries. Ank
Daniel Schimmel
leads the International Litigation & Arbitration practice of Foley Hoag’s New York office. Daniel has served as Chair, Sole Arbitrator, Co-Arbitrator, Emergency Arbitrator, Appellate Arbitrator, and counsel in over 70 arbitrations arising from a broad range of contracts and transactions. He has served as Chair and emergency arbitrator in a number of disputes in excess of $350 million and as sole arbitrator in many expedited arbitrations. Daniel also represents clients, including the Republic of France, ministère des Armées, and French and European companies in litigation in the United States. Daniel has been ranked by Chambers and Partners or Chambers USA since 2017. He is a Board member and the Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, NY Branch, a Board member of nyiac, and a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. He was the first law clerk to the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff in the Southern District of New York and worked as an assistant de justice at the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Bobigny (France). He graduated from Columbia Law School (jd, llm), University of Paris Law School (Paris ii), and essec Business School.
Peter C. Sester
CIArb (New York/Singapore). Head of Arbitration at Warde Advogados (São Paulo) and Professor of Law at Foundation Getúlio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro). He is a dual qualified lawyer in Germany and Brazil. From 2002 to 2020 he was a tenured professor in Germany and Switzerland. He was the director of the Institute for Law & Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) and of counsel at a global law firm (2002–2020). He is the author of Contract Law in International Commercial Arbitration published in Kluwer’s International Arbitration Law Library Series (Volume 66, 2023) and Business and Investment in Brazil: Law and Practice published by Oxford University Press (2022).
is an international commercial arbitrator. He is on the roster of arbitrators for the aaa/icdr, cpr, siac, and other major providers. He is also a senior legal editor in the litigation and arbitration services of Thomson Reuter’s Practical Law division. In that capacity he writes and edits legal know-how resources that help law firm lawyers, in-house counsel, and arbitrators perform more effectively and efficiently. Steve co-chaired the Arbitration Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section and chaired the New York City Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee. He also sits on the City Bar’s International Commercial Disputes Committee and the icdr’s Publications Committee. He is a member of or affiliated with: Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center, International Arbitration Club of New York, New York International Arbitration Center (nyiac), and the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the College of Commercial Arbitrators.
Liz Snodgrass
a partner at Three Crowns llp, has more than twenty-five years of experience as an advocate and adviser in international disputes. She acts in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations in the United States and around the world, with a focus on the upstream energy, power, technology and mining sectors. Liz has particular expertise handling disputes involving States and State entities, including investment treaty cases, fiscal disputes under long-term contracts, disputes that implicate both contract and treaty protections, and disputes that involve parallel domestic and international proceedings.
Rodrigo Tannuri
is the naming partner at Tannuri Advogados, a distinguished boutique law firm in Brazil specializing in high-value complex arbitration and litigation. He holds an ll.m. degree from Columbia Law School and a master’s degree in civil law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. In 2008, he worked as an International Lawyer in the arbitration department at White & Case llp in Washington DC.
Shrutih Tewarie
is a Partner at Foley Hoag, where she is the Co-Chair of the firm’s International Trade & National Security practice. She has extensive experience representing U.S. and foreign companies as well as foreign sovereign governments and their instrumentalities in a variety of high stakes disputes and has obtained victories for clients before U.S. courts and international tribunals. She also
Marcio Vasconcellos
is an associate in King & Spalding’s New York office and a member of the International Disputes Practice Group. The firm’s International Disputes Practice Group has been ranked numerous years as No. 1 Worldwide by Global Arbitration Review, International Practice Group of the Year by Law360. Marcio’s practice focuses on commercial and investor-state arbitration, and he has a particular focus on disputes involving mergers and acquisitions, mining, energy, and financial sectors, as well as broad experience in matters involving Latin America and Brazil. He holds an llb and an llm from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and an llm in International Arbitration from Pepperdine University’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. Marcio was the Chair of the Los Angeles Chapter for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a lecturer in law at the University of Southern California (usc) and an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University teaching classes on international arbitration. Marcio is admitted to practice law in Brazil, California, Illinois, and New York and he is ranked in Chambers Global and Chambers Brazil as an associate to watch.
Gustavo Favero Vaughn
is a Partner at Cesar Asfor Rocha Advogados, a boutique with offices in São Paulo and Brasília, in Brazil, specializing in high-value and complex litigation, as well as commercial arbitration. He has an ll.m. degree from Columbia Law School, and a master’s degree on civil procedure from the University of São Paulo School of Law. After pursuing his ll.m. degree, Gustavo spent nine months working as an International Lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s office in New York City. Gustavo is an Alumni Advisor at the American Review of International Arbitration (aria) and Academic Coordinator at Arbitration Channel. He has been appointed to serve as an auditor of the Brazilian Superior Court of Sports Justice for Football, basead in Rio de Janeiro, and as an administrative judge of the São Paulo Bar Association’s Ethics and Disciplinary Court. Lecturer-in-law at idp Online.
served as Chief Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court (stf) and the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court (tse). He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Brasília (UnB) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (puc/mg), where he was a tenured professor in Constitutional Law and General Theory of Public Law. He also served as a professor of Constitutional Tax Law at the Brazilian Institute of Public Law (idp). Justice Carlos Velloso holds honorary doctorate degrees from The University of Craiova (Romania) and Santa Úrsula University (Rio de Janeiro).
João Carlos Banhos Velloso
has been a partner at Advocacia Velloso since 2018. Before that, he served as a lawyer at the renowned law firm Barroso Fontelles, Barcellos, Mendonça Advogados. His expertise lies in handling intricate court cases at the Brazilian Supreme Court (stf) and the Superior Court of Justice (stj). Joao obtained his ll.m. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2019.
Gretta Walters
is a partner with Chaffetz Lindsey llp in New York. Her extensive experience as an arbitrator and counsel spans a diverse range of commercial and investment disputes in domestic and international arbitration and state and federal courts, including concerning construction/infrastructure projects; energy projects (oil & gas, wind, solar, coal-fired, hydroelectric); licensing and distribution agreements; banking and finance in developed and emerging markets; and mergers & acquisitions. Gretta is also an adjunct professor at nyu Law School, where she teaches international arbitration. Prior to joining Chaffetz Lindsey, Gretta was legal counsel at the scc Arbitration Institute and a visiting lecturer at Stockholm University, where she also earned an llm in International Commercial Arbitration Law.
Flávio Luiz Yarshell
is a Full Professor at University of São Paulo Law School, Brazil, and is the founding partner of Yarshell Advogados. Yarshell is trained in Brazilian law, and holds llb, M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees from the University of São Paulo Law School. Yarshell has handled several domestic and international arbitrations, both as lawyer and arbitrator, across a broad range of sectors, including energy,