Gretta Walters to Join Panel at 18th Annual ICDR Y&I Coffee House Debate

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Gretta Walters to Join Panel at 18th Annual ICDR Y&I Coffee House Debate

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April 2023— Chaffetz Lindsey’s Gretta Walters will speak at the 18th Annual ICDR Y&I Coffee House Debate in Vienna, Austria on Sunday, April 2nd at 12:30pm-2:30pm CEST. Gretta and accompanying panelists Malcolm Robach (Mannheimer Swartling), Katie Gonzalez (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton), Dr. Désirée Prantl (Baker McKenzie), Anamaria G. Marin (SLCG) and Giorgio A. Sassine (Musick, Peeler & Garrett) will debate the following propositions: i) States cannot rely on their own breach of internal requirements to avoid arbitration agreements; and ii) Investigations carried out by states about the other side’s alleged corruption should not prevent arbitrations from proceeding.

The discussion will be moderated by Mark Kantor (Independent Arbitrator) and Patricia Shaughnessy (Stockholm University).

The event will take place during the Vis Moot finals in Vienna. Chaffetz Lindsey is a proud co-sponsor of the event.

Event Details:

When: Sunday, April 2nd | 12:30pm-2:30pm CEST

Where: Palais Daun-Kinsky, Freyung 4, Vienna, Austria

Lidia Rezende Organizes ASIL Annual Meeting Panel “Regulating States’ Sovereign Rights under Today’s Global Challenges”

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March 2023— Chaffetz Lindsey’s Lidia Rezende sits on the organizing committee of the upcoming American Society of International Law (ASIL) 2023 Annual Meeting taking place March 29th-April 1st. Lidia will be organizing the panel titled “Regulating States’ Sovereign Rights under Today’s Global Challenges” taking place on Friday, March 31st at 12pm as part of the “Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Dispute Resolution” track.

Panelists Crina Baltag (Stockholm University), Nikhil Gore (Covington & Burling), Viren Mascarenhas (MilBank), Luciana Ricart (Curtis-Prevost, Colt & Mosle), and Benjamin Kantor (Columbia Law School) will explore sovereign immunity and the State’s right to regulate access to its territory under new global circumstances that have led to renewed challenges to the limits of these principles.

2023 ASIL Annual Meeting

March 29 – April 1, 2023

Washington Hilton (1919 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20009)

Learn more about the event and register here. (Registration closes March 27th at 3:30pm EST)

Chaffetz Lindsey is a proud sponsor of the event.

Caline Mouawad to Attend ERA’s “Meet the Female Arbitrators” Event as Featured Arbitrator

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March 2023— Chaffetz Lindsey’s Caline Mouawad has been selected as a featured arbitrator for the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge’s “Meet the Female Arbitrators” event in New York City. The event will introduce a group of talented women arbitrators and is aimed to increase awareness of qualified arbitrator candidates to better serve clients, businesses and organizations in the appointment process.

The networking event sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills in collaboration with NYIAC @ JAMS, will take place in person on Monday, March 20, 2023 from 6pm-8pm at JAMS (The New York Times Building, 620 Eighth Avenue, 16th floor, New York, NY 10018). Register your attendance here.

The Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge is a global initiative which aims to address the underrepresentation  of women on international arbitral tribunals.

Anibal Sabater to Speak at the 9th Harvard International Arbitration Conference

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February 2023— Chaffetz Lindsey’s Anibal Sabater will speak at the 9th Harvard International Arbitration Conference on Thursday, March 2nd. Anibal will join Isabel Fernández de la Cuesta (King & Spalding) and Richard C. Lorenzo (Hogan Lovells) for the 1:30pm panel “Arbitration in the Context of Energy Transition.” Katie Gonzalez (Cleary Gottlieb) will moderate the discussion.

The conference titled “”International Arbitration: Fostering and Adapting to Change” will feature many of the world’s leading practitioners who will be discussing some of the most relevant issues that practitioners are facing in the field.

The event is hosted by the Harvard International Arbitration Association.

Conference Details:

When: March 2nd-March 3rd, 2023

Where: Harvard University (Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138)

Learn more and register here.

Gretta Walters to Speak on Panel at 2023 iLaw Conference

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February 2023— Chaffetz Lindsey’s Gretta Walters will join B. Ted Howes, Martin F. Gusy and Eric P. Tuchmann for a panel discussion at the 2023 iLaw Conference on Friday, February 17th. The session titled “Regional Reports on the Current State of Affairs in International Arbitration” will feature a quick-moving discussion covering key legal and practice developments pertaining to the latest global highlights with a focus on international arbitration. The panel will take place at 10am during the AAA-ICDR International Arbitration Track morning sessions.

Hosted by the Florida Bar International Law Section and the American Arbitration Association, iLaw is the International Law Section’s flagship event attended by legal practitioners around the globe providing a full day of programming on issues in international litigation, business transactions and the AAA-ICDR international arbitration track. Find the full conference program and more information here.

Conference details:

iLaw 2023

Friday, February 17, 2023

JW Marriott Marquis (255 Biscayne Boulevard Way, Miami, Florida 33131)

Register for the conference here.

Andy Frischknecht to Moderate 2022 New York Arbitration Week Panel

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November 2022— Chaffetz Lindsey partner Andy Frischknecht will moderate a session during New York Arbitration Week taking place November 14th-November 18th. The roundtable discussion  “Who’s in Charge? From Different Perspectives in the Hearing Room” will take place on Wednesday, November 16 from 4pm-5:30pm among practitioners who serve as both counsel and arbitrators. This panel will explore the relationship between the arbitral tribunal, the parties and their counsel in a variety of procedural contexts.

Andy will be joined by Ema Vidak Gojković (Vidak Arbitration), Olena Perepelynska (FCIArb, Integrites, Ukrainian Arbitration Association) and Ank Santens (White & Case LLP).

Learn more about New York Arbitration Week and register here (webinar registration only). New York Ethics CLE credit pending

Andy Frischknecht to Join NYU/Columbia Conference Panel on “International Arbitration from a US Law Perspective”, Saturday, November 12th

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November 2022— Chaffetz Lindsey partner Andy Frischknecht will be speaking at the upcoming “Recent Developments in Arbitration” conference on Saturday, November 12th. The conference will be presented jointly by the Center on Civil Justice and the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law at NYU School of Law, together with the Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School.

Andy will join the third panel of the day to discuss “International Arbitration from a US Law Perspective” alongside Linda Silberman (NYU), Franco Ferrari (NYU) and John Fellas (NYU). The panel will discuss a range of issues in international commercial arbitration where U.S. solutions often invite debate, including jurisdiction and forum non conveniens in connection with proceedings to enforce an award, the criteria for enforcing an annulled award, judicial review of arbitral jurisdiction, and whether § 1782 providing for judicial assistance, including discovery, extends to international commercial arbitration.

Event details:

Date & Time: Saturday, November 12, 2022, 9am-4pm
Location: Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, NY, NY 10011

Register for the in person event here and virtually here. Note: CLE credit is only offered to in-person attendees.

Visit the conference page to learn more about the event.

James Hosking, Caline Mouawad & David Blackman to Speak at the 16th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration JURIS Conference

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October 2022— Chaffetz Lindsey’s James Hosking, Caline Mouawad and David Blackman will be speaking at the upcoming 16th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration conference on Friday, October 14th, 2022. The four panel event – being held in Washington, DC — will host leading arbitration practitioners and scholars from around the globe to discuss international investment law and arbitration.

Each panel will feature a topic question and two authors whose writings have taken opposing views. A moderated panel will engage in a discussion of the topic question and the writings of the authors. We are pleased to have three Chaffetz Lindsey attorneys featured on the panels:

Additional event details including in-person and virtual registration is available on the conference page here. Chaffetz Lindsey is pleased to sponsor this event.

Luísa Quintão to Speak at the Brazilian Arbitration Committee’s (CBAr) 21st International Arbitration Conference

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September 2022— Luísa Quintão is set to speak in the upcoming Brazilian Arbitration Committee’s (CBAr) 21st International Arbitration Conference, taking place between September 28th-30th in Rio de Janeiro. On the morning of September 29th, Luísa will take part in the breakfast event “The Different Diversities in Practice: Current Initiatives and Challenges in the Arbitration Market.” The event will look to promote debate among different professionals engaged in recent initiatives aimed at promoting gender, race, age and ethnicity diversity in arbitration.

Luísa will be joined by panelists Danilo Brum de Magalhães Júnior, Jorge Cesa Ferreira da Silva and Patrícia Shiguemi Kobayashi. The group will be moderated by Mariana Martins-Costa.

The in-person conference hosting over 700 participants aims to promote debate among professionals about “Arbitration and Corporate Law”. This will be one of the first major arbitration conferences in Brazil to be held in person since 2019.

About CBAr

The Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem (CBAr) is the leading association of arbitration practitioners in Brazil and publisher of the Brazilian Arbitration Review–Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem (Wolters Kluwer).

James Hosking and Yasmine Lahlou Celebrate Launch of ICCA Report at 2022 Edinburgh Conference

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September 2022— Attendees of the ICCA 2022 Edinburgh conference will celebrate the launch of the ICCA Report “Does a Right to a Physical Hearing Exist in Arbitration?” co-edited by Chaffetz Lindsey’s James Hosking and Yasmine Lahlou and D|R Arbitration & Litigation’s Giacomo Rojas Elgueta. On Wednesday, September 21st the co-editors will present the Report, summarizing key takeaways from the 78 national reports collated from around the globe and including eight essays on cutting-edge issues around remote arbitration hearings.

To close out the event, a moderated panel of thought leaders in the space will debate how remote hearings can be used in a post-pandemic world. Speakers include Kingshuk Banerjee, Valentine Chessa, Hussein Haeri, Yoshimi Ohara, and Franz Schwarz.

The ICCA 2022 conference is taking place September 18th-September 21st in Edinburgh, Scotland. The event titled ‘Arbitration’s Age of Enlightenment?’, explores ideas to adapt to a fast-changing environment, and shape the future of international arbitration. Learn more about the conference here.

About ICCA

The International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) is a global non-governmental organization devoted to promoting the use and improving the processes of arbitration, conciliation and other forms of international dispute resolution.

Chaffetz Lindsey to Sponsor DIS Autumn Conference Thursday, September 15th

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September 2022— Chaffetz Lindsey will be sponsoring the upcoming German Arbitration Institute (DIS) Autumn Conference taking place Thursday, September 15th, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. The conference titled “Disputes in an Age of Uncertainty – Managing the Energy Transition” will examine the many issues associated with the inherent uncertainty faced by energy companies due to a combination of energy transition, the war in Ukraine and the pandemic. Chaffetz Lindsey partners James Hosking and Andreas Frischknecht will be in attendance in Berlin.

The conference is part of the “Berlin Dispute Resolution Days” taking place this year for the first time from September 13th-September 16th.

For more information and the full program, visit the conference website.

About German Arbitration Institute:

The German Arbitration Institute (DIS) is the leading institution in Germany for the administration of arbitrations and alternative dispute resolution proceedings for national and international commercial disputes.

International Litigation: Inbound Cross-Border Discovery Review in the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section Newsletter

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August 2022— The 2022 summer edition of the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section newsletter highlighted the “International Litigation: Inbound Cross-Border Discovery” online event which took place May 3rd, 2022. The event was organized by the NYSBA International Litigation Committee, which is co-chaired by Clara Felbus and Chaffetz Lindsey’s Charles Scibetta.

The talk was the first of a multi-part CLE series aimed at increasing familiarity with procedural mechanisms to obtain evidence from individuals or entities located in jurisdictions different from where a proceeding is, or will be, pending. The dynamic panel, including Chaffetz Lindsey’s Alan Lipkin, Charlene Sun (DLA Piper) and Chris Paparella (Steptoe & Johnson), was moderated by Chaffetz Lindsey’s Gretta Walters. Alan led a discussion on Chapter 15 discovery mechanisms available to gather evidence in aid of, or in connection with, foreign insolvency, liquidation, or debt restructuring proceedings.

The program can be found on-demand on the NYSBA website here.

Read the full article and summary of the event here.

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