Gretta Walters to Speak at 2017 ICDR Y&I Coffee House in Vienna

March 2017 – Chaffetz Lindsey will be sponsoring the 13th Annual ICDR Y&I Coffee House Debate at which associate Gretta Walters will be speaking.  The ICDR Y&I event takes place annually on the event of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria.

The event will take place on April 9, 2017 at the Palais Daun-Kinsky, located at Freyung 4, Vienna, Austria.  Registration will begin at 12:00 with the debate taking place from 12:30-14:30.  The two debate propositions are:

• You spilled my coffee – I’m not paying for you!  Debate proposition:  A party allegedly harmed by another’s conduct shouldn’t have to advance the other’s costs just to get justice.
• Waiter, just bring our coffees and stay out of it!  Debate proposition: The increased power of arbitral institutions has come at the expense of party autonomy.

For more information or to RSVP, please email ICDRYI@adr.org.

Gretta was recently chosen to serve on the Global Advisory Board of the ICDR Y&I.  She also co-coaches the Foreign Direct Investment and Vis International Commercial Arbitration moot court teams at New York University Law School.  For more information on Gretta, please click here.

February 2017 – James Hosking, partner and co-founder at Chaffetz Lindsey, will present at iLaw2017, the ILS Global Forum on International Law, newly rebranded from the former “ILAT,” being held on February 17, 2017 at the Conrad Hotel in Miami.

James’s panel, titled “International Construction Arbitration Trends and Best Practices,” will discuss how the practice area continues to grow, leading the ICDR’s caseload five of the last six years. This panel — which includes John Fellas (Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York), Mauricio Gomm Santos (GST LLP, Miami), Alvin F. Lindsay III (Hogan Lovells, Miami), and Shelly L. Ewald (Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald, McLean, VA) — will focus on international arbitration as a conflict-management tool increasingly being utilized to resolve disputes in this growing and evolving industry. The experts will discuss the unique aspects of issues that may arise during the course of an international arbitration of a dispute stemming from a construction or infrastructure project.

The panel moderator will be Mariela Malfeld, Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald (Miami).

For more information about iLaw2017, click here.

February 2017 – Gretta Walters will be a panelist at the February 2017 VIII International Congress of Arbitration of ICC Costa Rica taking place at the Hotel Marriott Costa Rica.  The Congress, this year titled “Arbitration in Ibero-America: Have We Innovated?” will cover topics such as recent developments in investment arbitration in Ibero-America and will review the cases that have marked the agenda. In addition, discussions will be included on the calculation of compensation and ethical dilemmas.

Gretta’s panel, taking place from 2:30pm to 4pm on Thursday, Feb. 23rd, is titled “Innovation in arbitration” and will focus on topics such as technology use, training, costs, openness in referee lists, gender issues, and more. José Astigarraga (Astigarraga Davis, Miami) is leading the discussion.

Gretta has experience representing individual and corporate clients in arbitration in international and cross-border disputes and in complex litigation matters in state and federal court.

September 2016 – David Lindsey, partner and co-founder of Chaffetz Lindsey, will speak tonight at the New York City Bar’s “Hot Practice Areas: Privacy/Cybersecurity, Investment Funds, International Arbitration, Securities Litigation” event taking place at 42 West 44th Street in New York, NY.

David will discuss the legal specialty of International Arbitration; the path that led him to this specialty; the types of matters to expect in this area; determining whether this area might be of interest; the skills he has used/developed; the advantages/disadvantages of specializing; long-term possibilities, including firm, in-house, and public sector options; and how to enter or transition into this area.

Additional panelists will address these same topics as they relate to Securities Litigation (Joseph De Simone of Mayer Brown); Investment Funds (David Moody of Purrington Moody Weil LLP); and Privacy/Cybersecurity (Ryan Logan of Hunton & Williams LLP).

Andrew Gurman of Michael Lord & Company, LLC will serve as the moderator.  For more information or to attend this event, please click here.

September 2016 – Aníbal Sabater, Chaffetz Lindsey partner and  international arbitration specialist, will be a speaker at the Latin Lawyer Private Equity Conference taking place in New York on Monday, September 26th.  His panel, titled “Beauty and the Beast: From populism to orthodoxy,” will discuss what has been the experience for investors in various Latin American jurisdictions with expropriations or rule changes.  More specifically:

• Argentina: what has been the balance of Argentina’s populist adventure? The Macri Era – a feasible, new beginning?
• Venezuela: experience in nationalization and investment treaty arbitration
• Functioning of investment treaties to hedge sovereign risk
• SEC listing as hedge of sovereign risk?

Janet Whittaker (Clifford Chance, Washington DC) will serve as moderator.  Other panelists include Carlos Albarracín (Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York), Marcelo Etchebarne (Cabanellas, Etchebarne, Kelly, Buenos Aires) and Christina Hioureas (Foley Hoag, New York).

For more information about this event, or to register to attend, please click here.

September 2016 – Yasmine Lahlou will serve as a Faculty Member at the upcoming Certificate on International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, a program organized by the University of Roma III, being held in Rome from September 26th through September 30th.

Yasmine will be speaking on “Complex privity: Extension of arbitration obligations in multiparty transactions.”

This is the third edition of the Certificate Program, which is led by prominent academics, in-house counsel and practitioners aimed at providing theoretical and practical insights, including interactive workshops, about investment and commercial arbitration. The program is hosted by the University, the International Chamber of Commerce, the Associazione Italiana Per L’Arbitrato, and the Camera Arbitrale Milano.

For more information about this program, please click here.

June 2016 – Chaffetz Lindsey partners James Hosking and Steven Reisberg served as Program Faculty for the 2016 Commercial Arbitration Training for Arbitrators and Counsel hosted by the New York State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.  This comprehensive training program was conducted by seasoned arbitrators, counsel, arbitration administrators, and academics, focusing on Best Practices, from the perspectives of arbitrators and counsel.

James instructed alongside other experts in two different sessions: “Advocates’ Best Practices in Selecting Arbitrators and Representing Clients in Arbitration” and “Award Writing.”  Steven Reisberg spoke on the topic of “Pre-Preliminary Hearing Issues – Ethical and Other Issues.”

James has 20 years of international dispute resolution experience. He is a recognized expert in international arbitration, having handled disputes under the rules of all the leading institutions, including ICC, AAA/ICDR, SIAC, LCIA, WIPO, CRCICA and ICSID, as well as the UNCITRAL Rules. His recent cases have involved international commercial contracts, corporate acquisitions, construction/engineering, licensing/distribution, energy/power projects, JV/shareholder disputes, mining, and investment treaty claims. James also sits as an arbitrator, having acted as chairman, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and emergency arbitrator. In addition, he represents clients in US commercial litigation in state and federal courts.

Steven has been helping clients for more than 30 years to resolve complicated business disputes.  Steven is a highly skilled trial lawyer, representing clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial litigation, arbitrations, and intellectual property disputes.  He has represented companies and individuals in cases before U.S. federal district, appellate and bankruptcy courts, state courts, national and international arbitration tribunals, and administrative agencies, including the ITC and the SEC. Steven serves as an arbitrator in both international and domestic cases.
For more information about this program, please click here.