Aníbal Sabater to Present on “Economic Sanctions and International Arbitration” at UIA’s 60th Congress in Budapest

October 2016 – James Hosking will be a speaker at the fourth annual 2016 Dublin International Arbitration Day, which is taking place on Friday, November 18th at the Dublin Dispute Resolution Centre.  Session topics will include:

• Choice of Law in International Arbitration
• Third Party Funding: The Challenges for Tribunals
• Arbitration in Financial Services, Banking and Reinsurance
• Diversity in International Arbitration
• Debate: Ireland v. New Zealand (as a prelude to the rugby international at Aviva Stadium, Dublin on Saturday 19th November 2016)

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July 2016 – Aníbal Sabater recently moderated the New York Arbitration Center’s Grand Central Forum and interviewed Gary Born, who is president of SIAC and head of international arbitration at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Claudia Salomon of Latham & Watkins also participated in the discussion. Global Arbitration Review has summarized that interview in an article called “Game of Tribunals,” a clever play on Born’s references to Game of Thrones.

Born addressed a range of topics from the continuing importance of the seat of arbitration to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales’s recent comments proposing more judicial review of cases and the criticisms that face investor-state dispute settlement. He contends that international arbitration has enjoyed “a long golden summer when everything went right” but “winter is coming,” and as such the community needs to defend it more vigorously.

A subscription to GAR may be required to view the article in its entirety.

July 2016 – Chaffetz Lindsey partner Aníbal Sabater will be speaking in a roundtable discussion being hosted by the ABA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and the Arbitration Subcommittee on Monday, July 18, 2016 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Eastern.  Aníbal will be joined by other experienced arbitration practitioners Lawrence S. Schaner (Jenner & Block LLP) and Charlene C. Sun (King & Spalding LLP) to discuss how parties and their counsel can help to structure and manage arbitrations in ways that are more efficient and more responsive to the clients’ needs, including through the use of a number of recommended guidelines and recently revised arbitration rules.  C. Ryan Reetz (Bryan Cave LLP) will serve as the moderator.

Aníbal is an international arbitration specialist with over 18 years of experience, representing clients from around the world and industries as diverse as construction, energy, mining, shipping, technology, and telecommunications, in arbitrations under all major international arbitration rules, including AAA/ICDR, ICC, LCIA, and UNCITRAL. He has also acted in several investment arbitration cases under the UNCITRAL Rules and the ICSID Convention/Rules, as well as in commercial disputes involving states and state-owned entities. Licensed in several US jurisdictions, England and Wales (solicitor), and Spain, Aníbal has represented clients in disputes governed by the laws of more than 20 nations across Latin America, North America, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Committee Roundtables are a free ABA member benefit that allow you to call in from anywhere to hear live audio programs on a host of topics.  To register for this roundtable, please click here.

May 2016 – Gretta Walters will be moderating a panel at the Co-Chairs’ Circle Second Global Conference in Helsinki on May 27th.  The panel will discuss to what extent parties and counsel involved in an arbitration can have an obligation to disclose hidden information relevant to the outcome.

This year’s conference, Controversy in International Arbitration, is hosted by Young Arbitration Club Finland and jointly organized by 19 young arbitration practitioners’ organizations.

May 2016 – The New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC) will be hosting its Second Annual Grand Central Forum on May 18th, 2016 from 5pm to 9pm.  The NYIAC Board of Directors has established the Judith S. Kaye Arbitration Lecture, to be given annually in conjunction with the Grand Central Forum, in memory of the Hon. Judith S. Kaye, a visionary leader in New York’s legal community who passed away in January.  In addition to her 25 years of service on the New York Court of Appeals, Judge Kaye was the Founding Chair of NYIAC, to which she brought her characteristic dedication and verve.  This year, the Judith S. Kaye Arbitration Lecture will feature Gary Born, Chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at Wilmer Hale, in the format of a conversation with Chaffetz Lindsey partner Aníbal Sabater (NYIAC’s Program Committee Chair) and Claudia Salomon (Latham & Watkins LLP).  The conversation will cover topics such as: When (if ever) should annulled awards be enforced?; Is “manifest disregard of the law” a viable ground for annulment? Should calls from the English judiciary for enhanced review of arbitration be heeded?  Are criticisms of investor-state arbitration well founded?

The Lecture will be preceded by a panel of experts from around the world who will debate the question, “Is There a U.S. Culture of International Arbitration”? The panel, moderated by Caline Mouawad (King & Spalding LLP), will include Jalal El Ahdab (Ginestie Magellan Paley-Vincent), Claudia Frutos-Peterson (Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP), Gregory Litt (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP), and Eloïse Obadia (Derains & Gharavi).

Chaffetz Lindsey is proud to be a founding member of NYIAC.

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