Anibal Sabater to Participate in 2024 AAA Higginbotham Fellows Program

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Anibal Sabater to Participate in 2024 AAA Higginbotham Fellows Program

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May 2024—Chaffetz Lindsey’s Anibal Sabater will participate in an industry roundtable discussion at the American Arbitration Association’s Higginbotham Fellows Program on Wednesday, May 8th.

Anibal will join Dana MacGrath (Independent Arbitrator), Robin Abramowitz (Bond Schoeneck & King), Al Feliu (Feliu Neutral Services) and Angela Foster (Law Office of Angela Foster). Participants will hear from arbitrators in commercial, international, employment and construction about their experiences and caseloads.

Learn more about the event here.

About the AAA Higginbotham Fellows Program

The American Arbitration Association® (AAA®) created the AAA A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Fellows Program in 2009 to provide training, mentorship, and networking opportunities to up-and-coming alternative dispute resolution professionals who historically have been excluded from meaningful participation in the field.

Judge Aloysius Leon Higginbotham Jr. was an African American civil rights advocate, presidential adviser, educator, humanitarian, and jurist dedicated to supporting diverse talent in the legal profession. The AAA Higginbotham Program offers the full breadth of AAA resources to participants who have successfully demonstrated their commitment to ADR.

James Hosking and Silvia Marroquin Speak at 2024 ARIAS Spring Conference

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May 2024— Chaffetz Lindsey’s James Hosking and Silvia Marroquin are set to speak at the upcoming 2024 ARIAS Spring Conference taking place May 1st-May 3rd in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Chaffetz Lindsey’s Cia Moss is co-chair of the event.

Silvia Marroquin will join the panel “How Should Arbitrators Address Potential For Settlement With the Parties? Opportunities, Limits and Ethics” on Thursday, May 3rd.  The panel will address and interact with participants on what tools may or may not be appropriate toward fostering settlement and the appropriate times for such actions, including scheduling a “mediation window”, bifurcation of liability and quantum, inquiring whether the parties have discussed settlement, presenting panel questions meant to highlight the risks on both sides, “ArbMed” or “Med-Arb”, other party-agreed arbitrator participation in settlement efforts, ethical limits and approaches of the various arbitral institutions and rules. Additional panelists include David W. Ichel, (X-Dispute LLP), Elaine A. Caprio (Caprio Consulting) and Carlos A. Romero (Post & Romero LLP).

James Hosking will join Carolyn Thomas (AON) for “Hot Spots and Hot Policies: Political Risk Insurance in Today’s Volatile World” on Thursday, May 3rd. The panel will discuss the types of political risk insurance (PRI) available and interaction with other insurance lines, coverage and exclusion issues, and the application to “gray” areas like economic blockades. Speakers will also consider how the existence of PRI coverage may interact with claims brought under investment treaties for governmental expropriation and unlawful interference, as well as with other forms of risk mitigation. In addition, the panel will assess how PRI coverage may affect country risk for purposes of financial reporting and damages calculations.

Learn more about the event here.

Chaffetz Lindsey is a proud sponsor of the event.

Priscilla Villa Nova Speaks on Swiss Rules – State of the Art Arbitration made in Switzerland

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April 2024—Chaffetz Lindsey’s Priscilla Villa Nova will speak at the upcoming “Swiss Rules – State of the Art Arbitration made in Switzerland” virtual event hosted by Veirano Advogados on April 25th. Speakers of the event will discuss “Swiss Rules” and what sets them apart from other institutions.

Participants will gain valuable insights from Swiss colleagues, who remain close to the Swiss Arbitration Centre.

Priscilla will give closing remarks.

For more information and to register, click here.

Gretta Walters Featured on Jus Mundi: Global Arbitration Intelligence Panel

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April 2024—Gretta Walters joined the panel “Jus Mundi: Global Arbitration Intelligence at Your Fingertips” on April 9th as part of a webinar series hosted by the American Arbitration Association and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution. Gretta joined Annie Lespérance, FCIArb (Head of Americas, Jus Mundi) and Luis M. Martinez, Esq. (Vice President, International Centre for Dispute Resolution) for the discussion.

The webinar series “Arbitration Tech Toolbox: Mastering Digital Tools for Enhancing Your Arbitration Practice” highlights technology tools selected to help in arbitration practice. The webinar features Jus Mundi, the leading search engine in international and arbitration powered by Artificial Intelligence. The webinar highlighted:

  • Jus AI Assistant: The first international legal assistant based on generative AI for time efficient and cost-effective legal research, legal translation, summarization and document review.
  • Jus Mundi Database for Legal Research: The most comprehensive database of non-confidential awards and case documents in commercial and investor-state arbitration, thanks to partnerships concluded with over 45 arbitration institutions and associations, including the AAA-ICDR.
  • Jus Connect Database for Business Development: Data-backed arbitrator profiles allowing users to find suitable and conflict-free arbitrator candidates for their disputes.

Learn more about the event here.

Chaffetz Lindsey is a proud early adapter of the Jus AI Assistant, the first international legal assistant based on generative AI.

Caline Mouawad to Speak at “Investment Arbitration and Climate Change” Virtual Book Launch

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April 2024—Chaffetz Lindsey’s Caline Mouawad will take part in the upcoming virtual book launch of “Investment Arbitration and Climate Change” on Monday, April 8th from 12pm-1:30pm EDT. In this webinar, contributors to the recently published volume Investment Arbitration and Climate Change will discuss issues at the intersection between a State’s climate change initiatives and their potential impact on foreign investors.

Caline will examine how climate science may come into play at various stages of an investor-State arbitration relating to climate change issues.

Other speakers include Anja Ipp and Annette Magnusson, co-founders of Stockholm-based think tank Climate Change Counsel and the book’s editors as well as Oliver Hailes, assistant professor of law at the London School of Economics.

Register for the event here. Learn more about the book Investment Arbitration and Climate Change here.

 

Caline Mouawad to Speak on ISDS Reform: Financing of a Standing Mechanism and an Advisory Center

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April 2024—Caline Mouawad is set to speak at a side event of the 48th Session of UNCITRAL Working Group III on Tuesday, April 2nd. Caline will join the panel “ISDS Reform: Financing of a Standing Mechanism and an Advisory Center” with Colin Brown (Directorate General for Trade, European Commission), Ayse Lowe (Bench Walk Advisors LLC), Viren Mascarenhas (Milbank LLP), Ladan Mehranvar (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment), and Giovanny Vega (National Defense Agency of the Colombian Government).

The group will discuss the creation of an advisory center and a standing multilateral mechanism for the resolution of international investment disputes. Panelists will debate the pros and cons behind these reforms, with the goal of understanding their true impact if implemented.

The event will take place at Milbank LLP at 55 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001. Registration is required.

For more information and to register, click here.

Gretta Walters to Join 19th Annual ICDR Y&I Coffee House Debate

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March 2024— Chaffetz Lindsey’s Gretta Walters will speak at the 19th Annual ICDR Y&I Coffee House Debate in Vienna, Austria on Sunday, March 24th. Gretta and accompanying panelists Angela Bergman Evans (Mannheimer Swartling), José Antonio Casas Chavana (Galicia Abogados), Emily Brait (Baker McKenzie), Marc Krestin (Fieldfisher) and Pilar Álvarez (GBS Disputes) will debate the following propositions: i) Parties should not be allowed to add to or amend their claims after the first procedural order; and ii) Parties can agree to deviate from any provision in the arbitral rules.

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, March 24th| 12:30pm-2:30pm CEST

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

Click here for more information.

Anibal Sabater Teaches Harvard Oil & Gas Arbitration Masterclass

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March 2024—Anibal Sabater will join the Harvard International Arbitration Law Students Association Masterclass Workshop Series on Tuesday, March 19th.

Anibal will teach a session titled “International Arbitration in the Oil & Gas Sector,” covering disputes in the historically most relevant sector – oil and gas – and discuss the current trends and challenges in the field.

The Masterclass Workshop offers Harvard Law School students an in-depth introduction to the practice of international arbitration by delving into specific challenges and risks for international arbitration in key economic sectors.

Learn more here.

Gretta Walters to Speak at the 2024 IBA M&A Latin America Conference

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March 2024—Gretta Walters is set to speak at the 2024 International Bar Association’s Mergers & Acquisitions in Latin America Conference on March 14th. Gretta will join Gabriel Mesa (Covington & Burling), Andrea Saffie (Cariola Diez Perez-Cotapos), Laura Sinisterra (Debevoise & Plimpton) and Jose Felix Zaldivar de la Rica (Uria Menendez) for the panel titled “Closing Litigation Issues: Controversies Related to the Use of Escrow Agreements, Representations and Guarantees, and Price Adjustment”.

The panel will:

  1. Explore how the overcrowding of justice systems in countries around Latin America plays a role in the lack of M&A related litigation;
  2. Discuss the preference by parties to M&A deals for arbitration, rather than domestic courts or alternative dispute resolution procedures;
  3. Discuss problems between parties where claims are more commonplace and frequently contested or challenged, including: post-closing indemnification, purchase price adjustments, concerns about escrow agreements and possible sums that may be retained;
  4. Explore mechanisms used for funding and securing an indemnity (ie, escrow agreements) and other mechanisms such as set-offs against future payments (particularly earn-out payments) and a partial holdback of the purchase price;
  5. Discuss and explore how tribunals have handled such situations.

Session co-chairs are Tomas Araya (Bomchil) and Carlos del Rio (Creel Garcia-Cuellar Aiza y Enriquez).

The IBA M&A Latin America Conference will take place from March 13th-March 15th in Miami, Florida. For more information about the event, click here.

Gretta Walters Gives Keynote Address at 17th Annual International Centre for Dispute Resolution® (ICDR) Practice Moot and Lecture Series

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March 2024—Gretta Walters gave the keynote address at the 17th Annual International Centre for Dispute Resolution® (ICDR) Practice Moot and Lecture Series that took place on Friday, February 16th.

Gretta’s speech, “When Arbitrators’ and Institutions’ Authority Clash”, took a practical examination of one of the issues of this year’s Vis moot problem.

Each year, the program brings together preeminent arbitrators and practitioners in the field of international commercial arbitration with the aim of helping law students from around the world sharpen their advocacy skills in anticipation of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competitions held in Vienna and Hong Kong.

Learn more here.

Andy Frischknecht to Speak on 2024 Transatlantic Legal Conference Panel “Attorney Client Privilege Reloaded” in Frankfurt

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February 2024 — Chaffetz Lindsey’s Andy Frischknecht will speak as a panelist at the upcoming Transatlantic Legal Conference at the Institute for Law and Finance in Frankfurt on March 1st, 2024. At the conference, organized by the German-American Lawyers’ Association (DAJV), experts from Germany and the US in working groups including Arbitration, Litigation, Mediation (ALM), and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), will tackle current topics and cases of transatlantic relevance.

Andy will be speaking on the panel “Attorney Client Privilege Reloaded,” moderated by Dr. Anke Meier (Noerr), with Max D. Stein (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom). The panel will address a range of issues, including choice of law and waiver, and explore how to avoid common privilege pitfalls in cross-border litigation.

The panel will be followed by a reception and dinner with a welcome address delivered by U.S. Consul General Norman Thatcher Sharpf. Learn more and register for the event here.

May Khoury to Speak on ICC YAAF Panel in Dubai

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February 2024—Chaffetz Lindsey’s May Khoury will join the upcoming the ICC Young Arbitration & ADR Forum (YAAF) event taking place in Dubai on February 28th. The event “Wrestling the Leviathan – Illegality and Corruption in Arbitration” takes place parallel to the 12th ICC MENA Conference on International Arbitration and will feature an interactive discussion on illegality and corruption issues in international arbitration.

Practitioners from diverse jurisdictions will address questions on the subject, such as the difference between illegality and corruption, the arbitrability of corruption allegations, the burden and standard to prove corruption in arbitral proceedings, public policy considerations, sua sponte investigation of corruption issues by arbitral tribunals, the sanctions available to arbitrators, and how practitioners can best address these issues in practice.

May will join the panel composed of Yacine Francis (Allen & Overy), Rami Chahine (Meltem Avocats), Salma Abdelaziz (Meysan Partners) and Fakhruddin Valika (ICC International Court of Arbitration).

The panel discussion will be followed by a networking reception to continue the dialogue. Learn more and register for the event here.

Chaffetz Lindsey is pleased to sponsor the event.

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