Warsaw Arbitration Workshops is a series of practical training events on international arbitration organized by ICC Poland – one of the country’s leading commercial and arbitration institutions.
The WAW program is based on a mock case and covers all essential stages of arbitration proceedings in order to provide professional and comprehensive training for the next generation of lawyers – arbitration practitioners and users. WAW strongly focuses on practical aspects of arbitration and skills required to succeed in the fast-changing market.
WAW is run by leading international arbitration practitioners and held in English.
WAW is designed as a series of six coordinated two-to-three day workshops, although it may, on a limited basis, be possible to attend single events.
Warsaw Arbitration Workshops is intended for everyone interested in developing their knowledge and skills in international dispute resolution, including:
The WAW program is designed as a series of six coordinated two-to-three day workshops, although it may, on a limited basis, be possible to attend single events.
The WAW program is intended to be taken as a series of workshops, although it may, on a limited
Registration fees – full programme
Registration fee – single workshop (excluding Workshop 5 on oral advocacy)
Registration fee – Workshop 5 on oral advocacy
The accepted candidates will be required to remit tuition by mid-December 2019.
In order to apply for admission to the 2020 WAW program, please register here and fill out the application form available upon registration.
The application process for the 2020 WAW program is open through mid of November 2019.
Assessment of candidates for the program will be completed by end of November 2019. The candidates will be informed of the outcome via e-email, to the address given by them during the registration process.
The accepted candidates will be required to remit tuition by mid-December 2019.
Warsaw Arbitration Workshops events take place at facilities of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw.
University of Warsaw
Building Collegium Iuridicum II
Room no. 2.3/2.4
Lipowa 4 St.
Warsaw
University of Warsaw
Building Collegium Iuridicum I
Room no. 319/416
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
Warsaw
Workshop I will include following topics and assessments:
Workshop II will include following topics and assessments:
Workshop III will include following topics and assessments:
Workshop IV will include following topics and assessments:
Workshop V will include following topics and assessments:
Workshop VI will include following topics and assessments:
Piotr Bytnerowicz, FCIArb, is counsel in the White & Case International Arbitration Practice. He is a Polish-qualified advocate based in Warsaw with significant experience in cross-border disputes (including working at the W&C London office during a half-year secondment). For 14 years, Piotr has represented clients in a variety of disputes in the energy, construction, telecommunications, media, insurance, IT and industrial sectors. His experience includes acting as counsel in post-M&A and other transaction-related disputes, as well as serving as arbitrator in commercial and construction cases.
Piotr is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Society of Construction Law. He is listed as an arbitrator at the “Lewiatan” Court of Arbitration in Warsaw and a mediator at the International Mediation Centre (IMC). Piotr is also a member of the Working Group for Trainings of the Arbitration Commission of ICC Poland and of the ICC CEE Arbitration Group, as well as an alumnus of the ICC Advance Arbitration Academy for CEE.
Chambers Global and Chambers Europe list Piotr as “Up and Coming” in the Dispute Resolution category. Piotr has also been recognized by the latest edition of the Legal 500 EMEA ranking in the Dispute Resolution category. Who’s Who Legal listed Piotr in the 2019 Arbitration Future Leaders – Non-partners ranking. In 2014 he was also honored as a „Rising Star” in the legal professionals rankings published by WoltersKluwer and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. Chambers praised Piotr for „the clarity and aptness of his conclusions and arguments,” as well as „his creativity in solving problems.”
Piotr is the author of a number of articles relating to dispute resolution and international arbitration in particular. He also frequently speaks at conferences and seminars and conducts trainings relating to international arbitration.
Piotr graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Warsaw and the British Centre for English and European Legal Studies (University of Warsaw, in association with the Centre for European Legal Studies of the Law Faculty at the University of Cambridge).
Alicja Zielińska-Eisen, LL.M. is a Polish qualified lawyer (adwokat) and managing associate at the Warsaw dispute resolution practice of Linklaters. She is combining her attorney’s practise with an academic career as Program Coordinator for the International Dispute Resolution (IDR) LL.M. at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Her practice covers, among other areas, advising and representing clients in court and arbitration proceedings and developing strategies for resolving disputes at every stage, including settlement negotiations. Alicja acts also as administrative secretary in international cases.
Alicja is involved in numerous initiatives for legal professionals, including speaking engagements at seminars and conferences in Warsaw, Berlin, Vienna and Hong Kong and lectures on arbitration and ADR subjects. In recent years she was a faculty member during the Berlin Summer School on Intercultural Negotiation and Mediation organised by Tulane University Law School and Humboldt University of Berlin. She also acts as a mock-arbitrator and coach preparing students for moot court competitions.
Alicja graduated from the University of Silesia (Katowice, Poland) and holds an LL.M. in International Dispute Resolution from the Humboldt University of Berlin as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Negotiation, Mediation and other ADR awarded by Warsaw University, Centre for Dispute and Conflict Resolution.
Alicja was named as one of the “Rising Stars – Lawyers Future Leaders 2016” under 35, which is a ranking prepared by Wolters Kluwer and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna in Poland.
Bartosz Krużewski is the head of Clifford Chance Continental Europe Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. He also heads the Warsaw Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Department and is a member of the Clifford Chance International Commercial Arbitration Practice.
For the past six years, Bartosz has been the President of the Arbitration Committee at ICC Poland and a member of the Board of ICC Poland. Bartosz is a member of the ICC and the ICC Commission and a sought-after arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. He specializes in construction, commercial and treaty based investment arbitration.
Paweł Pietkiewicz is a member of the ICC Polish Arbitration Committee and the Arbitral Council of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration. He advises domestic and international clients on a wide range of complex litigation and arbitration cases.
Advocate, partner and head of dispute resolution practice group at Łaszczuk & Partners.
For more than 15 years she has been advising and representing Polish and international clients in commercial disputes in litigation and in domestic and international arbitration disputes, especially regarding M&A, real estate, construction contracts, investment projects, commercial law and commercial contracts.
She has been involved as a counsel in a number of high-profile arbitrations under the rules of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, Lewiatan Arbitration Court, ICC and UNCITRAL as well as post-arbitration litigations. Her experience includes also advising and representing clients in investment arbitrations.
She advises also on construction law, infrastructure projects, mergers & acquisitions, real estate transactions, commercial real estate tenancy and lease.
Justyna is a listed arbitrator for the largest in Poland, the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Lewiatan Court of Arbitration. Her experience includes being an arbitrator or presiding arbitrator in several dozen proceedings under the rules of permanent courts of arbitration as well as ad hoc arbitrations.
She has been recommended by Chambers Europe and Chambers Global in the field of dispute resolution and among the Most in Demand Arbitrators. She has been recommended by The Legal 500 EMEA among five leading individuals in the field of dispute resolution. She has been also recommended by the Best Lawyers in Poland ranking in the field of arbitration and mediation and in the field of litigation and by the Expert Guides to Commercial Arbitration since 2015. She is recommended by Who's Who Legal Arbitration: Future Leaders – Partners. In 2012, she was placed in the top position in Rising Stars, a ranking of young Polish lawyers organised by the largest Polish legal daily, Gazeta Prawna, and LexisNexis publishers.
Her social involvement includes serving as board member of the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA); currently she has been appointed the Honorary Member. She was a member of the Board of the Polish Arbitration Association. As of 2018, Justyna has been the Vice-President of the Polish National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Poland).
She is the author or co-author of numerous publications on arbitration, as well as a lecturer on arbitration-related topics.
Natalia Jodłowska is a managing associate in the GESSEL Arbitration Practice.
Her practice encompasses arbitration and litigation in the fields of commercial law and civil law in a broad range of subject areas, in particular M&A, construction and energy disputes.
She represented Polish and foreign Clients in domestic and international arbitration proceedings before, among other bodies, the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Arbitration Association (IAA), the Federation Of Cocoa Commerce (FCC), the Polish National Chamber of Commerce, the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration, and in ad hoc arbitration. In a number of cases, served as administrative secretary to arbitration tribunals in Polish and international arbitration proceedings before the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Polish National Chamber of Commerce, the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration, and in ad hoc arbitration. She represented Clients in several dozen proceedings before Polish general and administrative courts.
In 2019 Natalia was entered on the List of Recommended Arbitrators of the Lewiatan Arbitration Court.
In 2019 she was also appointed for as the ICC YAF (International Chambers of Commerce Young Arbitrators Forum) Regional Representative for Europe and Russia.
Before joining GESSEL in 2012, spent almost two years with the tax and judicial-administrative proceedings practice of PwC.
Founder and Senior Partner at GESSEL.
Beata Gessel is an author of the concept and a chair of the Dispute Resolution in M&A Transactions conference.
She is an expert practitioner in arbitration, M&A, private equity and commercial law. She has acted as an arbitrator or counsel in cases under rules of ICC, FCC, IAA, SCAI, UNCITRAL, Lewiatan, KIG and National Depository for Securities. Member of the ICC International Arbitration Court. Between 2011 and 2017, served as President of the Lewiatan Arbitration Court; upon leaving this position, she was appointed Honorary President. She chairs the Audit Committee of the Polish Private Equity Association. Beata Gessel is an adjunct professor in international commercial arbitration and commercial law at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University.
For many years, distinguished in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe in the most in-demand arbitrators category. She has been praised for her inquisitive style, effectiveness, and strong business sense as well as for the strength which she brings to bear in promoting Polish arbitration: “Beata Gessel has put Poland on the international arbitration scene”. 2017 Chambers Global commentary named her the “first lady of arbitration in Poland”. In 2017 Beata has been recognised as a Leading Individual in Dispute Resolution in the Legal 500 ranking. According to Clients, she has “exceptional business acumen and second-to-none legal knowledge” and is a “strong leader”.
In 2015 – 2018 she run comparative law research on breach of M&A transactions, as a visiting academic at Oxford University Law Department and at Cambridge University Law Department within the Herbert Smith Freehills Visiting Professors Scheme, and finally – visiting scholar at Wolfson College (Oxford University).
Dr. Rafal Morek is a partner responsible for dispute resolution and construction law practices in DWF Poland law firm.
In both practices he is individually recommended by several legal rankings, including Chambers, Legal500 and Best Lawyers. In 2019 he has been named a "market leader in the field of international disputes" by the Polish daily newspaper "Rzeczpospolita". As an arbitrator or a counsel, he took part in over seventy arbitrations in accordance with the rules of ICC, ICSID, SCC, UNCITRAL, CAS, PCC, Lewiatan Court of Arbitration or SIDIR.
He is also an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw, and an author of several publications on dispute resolution and private law.
Wojciech Sadowski, PhD is a partner at K&L Gates. He is a Polish qualified adwokat, in the process of registrating in the UK as a Registered European Lawyer. He has over 15 years professional experience with international dispute settlement, with a particular focus on international arbitration, EU law and judicial co-operation in civil and commercial matters. His credentials include acting as counsel and sitting as arbitrator in M&A related disputes.
Since 2008, he has constantly been ranked by leading legal directories, including Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers and Who’s Who International Arbitration, as one of the recommended practitioners in the area of dispute resolution and international arbitration.
He has acted as counsel in numerous cases before Polish courts, international and domestic arbitral tribunals, European Court of Human Rights, General Court of the EU and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Until 2013 he was a researcher and following this, assistant professor at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Science, where in 2009 he defended the PhD thesis on the application of the res iudicata principle in investment treaty arbitration.
He is an author of many books, papers and articles, on various topics related to international arbitration, investment treaty law, EU law and international commercial disputes.
Małgorzata is a Polish-qualified advocate and Head of Dispute Resolution at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang in Poland. She has 22 years of experience in resolving disputes in the construction, energy, telecommunications, banking and insurance sectors. She also handles antitrust, intellectual property and corporate disputes.
Małgorzata is a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Her other arbitration affiliations include the membership of: the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, the Arbitration Commission at ICC Poland and the Arbitration Commission of the Polish Bar Council. She acts as counsel in international and domestic commercial arbitrations and international investment arbitrations under bilateral investment treaties. She also acts as an arbitrator in arbitrations administered by the ICC, SAKIG, SA Lewiatan and in ad hoc (UNCITRAL) arbitrations. She speaks fluent Polish, English and French.
The international legal directories Legal 500 and Chambers Global/Europe recommend Małgorzata as a leading specialist in the field of dispute resolution and insurance. International publishing houses Legal 500 and Chambers Global/Europe recommend Małgorzata as a leading specialist in the field of dispute resolution. According to Chambers, clients are impressed with „the way she leads the case and her team, as well as the way she formulates her argumentation”. They admire the fact that „she focused on the right things and devised a strong strategy for the hearings”, praise her as „perfect in negotiations”, and commend her „business-oriented attitude”.
Michał Subocz is a partner and head of the White & Case Dispute Resolution practice in Poland. His experience includes representing international and Polish contractors, investors and advisors in construction disputes before common courts and in arbitration proceedings in accordance with the rules of UNICTRAL, ICC, as well as of the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce.
He is a member of the Polish National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Poland), as well as an arbitrator in the Court of Arbitration at the Confederation Lewiatan. Michał is a member of the Arbitral Council at the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce. Last several editions of prestigious international reports Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and Legal 500 EMEA recommend Michał in the Dispute Resolution category.
Violetta Wysok is legal counsel and partner at Wysok i Wysok Radcowie Prawni Spółka Partnerska. She graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University in 1999. She had been working for one of the leading international law firms for 9 years, including one-year secondment to its International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Department in the London office.
Violetta Wysok is an experienced arbitrator. She seated as an arbitrator in cases conducted according to the ICC Arbitration Rules, the Rules of LEWIATAN Arbitration Court, Arbitration Court at the Warsaw Bar of Legal Counsel, Rules of Arbitration of the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, as well as in an ad hoc arbitration. She also participated in numerous arbitration cases as an attorney. She has been a lecturer at many conferences and wrote numerous publications regarding ADR. As a mediator, she conducted hundreds of mediations in commercial cases.
Violetta Wysok is a member of the Arbitration Commission at the Polish National Committee of ICC. She used to be a member of the Arbitration Committee at the LEWIATAN Court of Arbitration. She was the President of the Arbitration Court at the Warsaw Bar of Legal Counsel in 2008-2010. She also headed the Mediation Centre at the Warsaw Bar of Legal Counsel in 2005-2010.
Kirsten Odynski is a partner in White & Case's International Arbitration Practice, based in the Paris office. She transferred to the Paris office in 2012 after having spent her first three years with the firm in the New York office.
Kirsten has experience in commercial and investment treaty arbitration, having acted as counsel in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. Currently, she is advising on large arbitrations in the construction and energy industries.
Some of her recent experience includes:
Kirsten has also been active in White & Case's pro bono work in the area of public international law and legal education service programs. She has been involved with projects for the Open Society Justice Initiative and White & Case's global sponsorship of the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition.
Jörn Hombeck, LL.M., acts as counsel in state court proceedings, arbitration and adjudication as well as arbitrator and secretary to arbitral tribunals. His professional focus is in post-M&A, corporate, real estate and construction law.
Jörn earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Before joining Hanefeld Rechtsanwälte, he worked as a lawyer at a large international law firm in Hamburg in the area of real estate law. In addition, Jörn has dealt extensively with litigation in corporate law as a research assistant at a large international law firm. He speaks German and English.
Maria Hauser-Morel is Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration, where she is in charge of the case management team that handles matters involving parties mainly from Central and Eastern Europe.
Prior to joining the ICC as a counsel, she was an associate in the Arbitration Group at Salans (now Dentons) in Paris and deputy counsel at the ICC Secretariat. She had also worked for a Polish law firm Soltysinski, Kawecki & Szlezak as well as for Allen & Overy in Paris.
Mrs Hauser-Morel is a Polish qualified lawyer, holds a doctorate of law from the Wroclaw University (Poland) and a Master of European and International Business Law at the University of Saint Gallen.
Alina Leoveanu has recently joined the International Arbitration practice of the Paris office of Mayer Brown as Senior Legal Consultant.
Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Alina was the Manager of the ICC International Centre for ADR (“Centre”) and was responsible for the ICC’s ADR services, which include mediation, expertise and dispute board proceedings in addition to banking related disputes. Alina also served as Global Co-Chair of the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum from September 2016 to July 2019. She regularly represented the ICC at conferences and speaking engagements across Europe and Russia. Alina is also a CEDR Accredited Mediator since 2016.
Prior to being the Manager of the Centre, Alina was a part of the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration as a Deputy Counsel for the Eastern European Team. At any given moment Alina administered over 80 arbitrations, assisted the ICC Court and acted as a liaison between parties, counsel and arbitral tribunals.
Before joining the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Alina worked as a case processing Lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. Alina holds a Master’s degree in European Union Law from the University of Paris I Panthéon– Sorbonne (2006) and a Law degree from the University of Craiova, Romania (2004). In addition to her native Romanian, Alina is fluent in English and French and has good knowledge of Spanish.
Katarzyna Kucharczyk is an attorney-at-law and a Counsel in the Dispute Resolution Department at CMS.
Katarzyna is experienced in representing clients from the construction, real estate, financial and TMT sectors, as well as private equity funds and public entities.
In her professional experience she has advised on disputes before Polish civil courts as well as Polish and international arbitration courts (acting as a counsel and as an arbitrator). The disputes concerned matters such as construction investment projects, including projects conducted under FIDIC General Conditions, claims related to payments under bank guarantees, M&A transactions, representation in matters concerning competition and consumer protection law, representing financial institutions in disputes related to financial transactions, patent disputes as well as copyright-related disputes.
She has also dealt with matters before the patent office, and business and settlement negotiations.
International publishing houses Legal 500 and Chambers Global and Chambers Europe recommend Katarzyna as a specialist in the field of dispute resolution and insurance. She was among the winners of the Rising Stars ranking organized by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. She is also a speaker at Polish and international arbitration conferences and an author of publications on arbitration.
Ania joined Vannin from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BLP), where she was a partner in BCLP’s International Arbitration group. She previously worked in several leading arbitration practices in London, and Paris. She has over 15 years’ experience as counsel specialising in international arbitration, both commercial and investment treaty, with a particular focus on energy related disputes.
She has been ranked in Chambers & Partners UK since 2012. In 2018, Ania was ranked 5th most highly regarded lawyer under 45 in Europe in Who’s Who Future Leaders.
In addition to her legal work, Ania was the ICC YAF representative in the UK between 2012 and 2017, appointed to the ICC UK Committee for Arbitration and ADR in 2015 and has been Vice Chair of the committee since 2017.
She is regularly invited to speak at conferences. She was a member of the ICCA/Queen Mary Taskforce on Third Party Funding and Chaired the Sub-Committee on privilege. She is also Co-Chair of the International Arbitration Charity Ball Committee and on the organising committee for London Disputes Week.
Ania still sits as arbitrator and has been appointed by both institutions and parties.
Tomas Vail is the Founder and Principal of Vail Dispute Resolution. He is recognised as a leading practitioner of investor-state arbitration (Legal 500 UK Dispute Resolution 2019), with a decade of experience. He regularly represents both states and investors in investment treaty arbitration proceedings under the ICSID and UNCITRAL rules, applicable treaties and public international law. He also represents clients in commercial arbitration proceedings, including under the LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL rules. Tomas has particular experience of the natural resources and financial services industries. Tomas has further experience of arbitration in the telecommunications, commodities, consumer goods and manufacturing sectors.
Following initial experiences at the ICC International Court of Arbitration and with the in-house legal team of GE Commercial Finance, between 2010 and 2016, Tomas worked in the international arbitration group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, in its London office. From 2016 to 2019, he was a member of the international arbitration team at White & Case in London. At all of these times, each team was respectively ranked “Number 1” in the Global Arbitration Review’s list of the world’s top international arbitration practices.
Tomas is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is listed on the arbitrator databases of the LCIA, VIAC and the Russian Arbitration Center. He regularly publishes and speaks on issues relevant to international arbitration. His recent writing includes a book chapter on tribunal-appointed experts, to be published in 2019 by Cambridge University Press in a commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. He also serves as part of the leadership of several prominent arbitration organisations and initiatives, including as an Advisory Board member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. Tomas also serves as a legal specialist in investment treaty arbitration to the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative, and in this capacity presented to the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan on matters of investment treaty arbitration.
Tomas obtained a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington College of Law, and completed his undergraduate studies in political science at Macalester College. As part of his legal education, Tomas completed graduate studies in international arbitration at Université Paris X – Nanterre, Tomas is a member of the bar in New York and is a Solicitor of England and Wales. He is a native speaker of Russian and English and is fluent in French.
Johanna Henschel is a senior associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team. She advises in dispute resolution matters and represents parties in international arbitrations, before state courts and authorities as well as in enforcement and legal assistance matters.
Johanna Henschel studied law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany (MLaw, 2012). During her studies she worked as a research assistant with Prof. Dr. Pierre Tercier in the field of international arbitration and as a research assistant at the Civil Law Department II (Property rights) as well as the Department for Civil and Commercial Law. Before joining Walder Wyss, she gained work experience as a legal trainee in a major business law firm in Zurich and served as a law clerk at the district court in Meilen. She was admitted to the bar in 2016. She is currently pursuing a MSc (Master of Science) in Construction and Dispute Resolution at King’s College in London on a part-time basis
Johanna Henschel's professional languages are German and English. She also speaks French. She is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.
Dr. Stephen Terrett (advocate) is the director and senior lecturer at the British Law Centre, based at the University of Warsaw and taught by lecturers from the University of Cambridge and Juris Angliae Scientia. He has also taught vocational subjects at the Polish National School for Judges and Prosecutors, inter alia by giving lectures on the English legal system, commercial law and bankruptcy law for judges and prosecutors.
Prior to joining the SSW team, he advised a number of international law firms in Warsaw on various aspects of English and EU law. He also worked at the Polish Constitutional Tribunal.
He is the founder and CEO of an educational foundation which has organised and delivered advocacy training sessions throughout the entire CEE region (including programs co-funded by the EU) involving members of the Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA), the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple and the Australian Advocacy Institute (including the world-renowned George Hampel, who pioneered the ‘Hampel method’ of advocacy training).
Ulrich Kopetzki is an associate at DORDA in Vienna, where he is a member of the firm’s dispute resolution team. Ulrich regularly acts as party counsel in international arbitrations and as administrative secretary to arbitral tribunals.
Before joining DORDA, Ulrich worked at the International Court of Arbitration in Paris, where he headed first the case management team responsible for arbitrations seated in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Benelux, and the Nordic countries and then the case management team responsible for arbitrations seated in Central and Eastern Europe. At the ICC Secretariat, Ulrich gained extensive experience in particular in post-M&A disputes, licensing and distribution agreements as well as in engineering and construction disputes, including especially FIDIC disputes. He supervised over 500 arbitrations and was involved in the scrutiny of some 100 awards.
Ulrich publishes and speaks regularly on arbitration and is a member of the Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners' advisory board. In addition, Ulrich focuses on other forms of ADR. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he researched negotiation and mediation at Kellogg's Dispute Resolution Research Center. Ulrich teaches negotiation and mediation among others at the University of Vienna and at Saarland University.
Martin Magál is managing partner and head of Allen & Overy's Litigation and Arbitration practice in Slovakia. He also co-ordinates the Dispute Resolution practice in Allen & Overy's CEE offices. Martin holds law degrees from Comenius University in Bratislava (Mgr.) and Cambridge University (LL.M.).
Martin has been practicing law since 1999. He advises clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions including acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and privatisations. Martin frequently acts as party representative in numerous arbitrations conducted under the arbitration rules of the ICC, VIAC, DIS, SCAI, SCCI (Court of Arbitration of the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry). He has also acted as an arbitrator in arbitrations conducted under International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), German Institution for Arbitration (DIS), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and Vienna International Arbitral Center (VIAC) rules. He is currently serving as a member of the board at the Arbitration Court of the Slovak Bar Association and has been one of the key people behind the plan to develop it into one of Slovakia’s most trusted domestic arbitration institutions. Martin is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He has contributed articles and summaries to several domestic legal journals and international arbitration handbooks. Martin was the principal drafter of new Slovak legislation on commercial arbitration in effect since 2015 and is Slovakia’s national correspondent to UNCITRAL on commercial arbitration.
Dually qualified in Paris and Latvia, Dr. Galina Zukova is a leading arbitration practitioner with almost 20 years of legal experience. She has served as an arbitrator (president, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and emergency arbitrator alike) in cases conducted under the most major institutional rules, including the ICC, LCIA, DIS, VIAC, SCC and Milan Chamber of Arbitration. She also regularly represents clients (individuals, corporate and state entities), and acts as expert in international arbitration proceedings.
Before founding her own firm in 2019, Dr. Zukova was a Partner with a boutique law firm and a lawyer in the top International Arbitration Practice Group of a major international law firm based in Paris. Prior to this, she worked as Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration, where she was in charge of the case management team handling matters involving parties from Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and Greece. In that role, she oversaw hundreds of arbitration proceedings and scrutinized hundreds of arbitral awards. Her previous work experience also includes the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, a leading Baltic law firm and the Latvian European Integration Bureau (Latvian Government), where she was in charge of the legal aspects of Latvia’s accession to the European Union.
Dr. Zukova is a Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, a Board Member of the Finland Arbitration Institute (FAI), and a Member of the Arbitration Council of the Georgian International Arbitration Centre (GIAC). She is a Member of the Organizing Committee of the ICCA Congress 2020. She is also an Associate Professor at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (Paris-Saclay) and the Riga Graduate School of Law.
A Latvian lawyer by training (LLB, University of Latvia), Galina has a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and an LLM from the University of Exeter (UK). She was also a Visiting Scholar at the Yale University (US).
Dr. Zukova is fluent in English, French, Italian, Latvian, Russian and Spanish. She has a working knowledge of German.
Dr. Peter Wende, LL.M. is a partner at CMS based in Stuttgart/Germany. With a focus on complex corporate and post M&A disputes, Peter represents German and international clients in domestic and international arbitration proceedings as well as before German state courts. Peter has a thorough understanding for his clients' concerns and the legal peculiarities in post M&A disputes, as he started his career as an M&A lawyer and thus has vast experience advising on German and international M&A transactions. Furthermore, he regularly advises and represents clients in large commercial disputes.
Peter joined CMS in 2010 and became a partner in 2019. In 2015, he was seconded to the arbitration department of CMS von Erlach Poncet in Geneva.
He writes and presents frequently on a wide range of matters relating to arbitration and corporate law practice.
Peter studied at the Universities of Tübingen, Lausanne/Switzerland, Münster (first state exam), the College of Europe in Bruges/Belgium (LL.M.) and the University of Cologne (Dr. iur.). He is a member of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS40), the Association Suisse de l'Arbitrage (ASAbelow40) and the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA). He is fluent in German, English and French.
Wendy J. Miles, QC is a partner in the firm’s London office and a member of the International Dispute Resolution Group. Her practice focuses on international arbitration and public international law.
Ms. Miles is recognised as one of the market’s foremost lawyers in the fields of arbitration and public international law. With over twenty years of experience, Ms. Miles has conducted arbitrations under all the major institutions, as well as conducting ad hoc arbitrations and undertaking significant public international law cases. She has advised a wide range of multinationals, sovereign states and state entities.
Ms. Miles represents clients across numerous sectors, including energy, natural resources, gaming, manufacturing, financial services, pharmaceutical, licensing, telecommunications, insurance and construction.
Ms. Miles is a Vice President of the ICC Court of Arbitration and the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. She co-chaired the Task Force on Costs Allocation in Arbitration and currently co-chairs the ICC Task Force on Climate Change Related Disputes. She also remains active on various other professional bodies including the IBA, Stockholm Arbitration Association and FIAA. She is also Co-Chair of the gender diversity initiative Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge (www.arbitrationpledge.com).
Vladimir heads the firm’s CIS Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Vladimir has wide experience participating in litigation in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine, as well as in international arbitration cases under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, arbitration rules of the ICC, SCC, LCIA, ICAC and other arbitration institutions, both as a party counsel and arbitrator.
Vladimir is included on the lists of arbitrators of arbitration institutions in Russia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, UAE, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, US and Israel. Mr. Khvalei is included on the list of tutors, examiners and assessors of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).
Vilija Vaitkute Pavan is a partner at Ellex Valiunas and specializing in the field of arbitration as well as international commercial litigation for more than 20 years. She was an ICC Arbitration Court member for 12 years.
Vilija participates as a party appointed arbitrator or chair and counsel in numerous arbitration proceedings under various arbitration rules including of the ICC, SCC, LCIA, VIAC, Finland Chamber of Commerce, Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration, UNCITRAL. Matters involved a wide range of legal issues arising out of general contract law, joint ventures, M&A, shareholders disputes, privatization, FIDIC contracts, distribution, financing within broad range of industries, such as retail, chemicals, oil and gas, financial institutions, infrastructure & transport. She has also represented clients in several investment arbitration cases under the arbitration rules of UNCITRAL, ICC and ICISD involving investments in energy, beverage and banking sectors.
Vilija has represented clients in several landmark cases involving recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, professional liability, property expropriation, shareholders and M&A disputes.
The international legal directories such as The Legal 500, Chambers Europe, Chambers Global name Vilija as a lading arbitration and litigation lawyer in jurisdiction. According to Chambers Vilija “is one of the first people you’d go to in terms of disputes here in Lithuania”, because she is “regarded for her expertise in high-profile litigation and arbitration, with notable expertise in significant cross-border mandates”, adding that she has a “good sense of humor”.
She regularly gives lectures at conferences and is the author of several articles and papers on arbitration. Vilija is fluent in Lithuanian, English, Russian and has a speaking knowledge of Italian.
Dr. Jasmin Schmeidler is an Avocate à la Cour admitted to the Munich & Paris bar and Academic focusing on international arbitration & dispute resolution and international law. She advises clients before and during international business relationships. She also accepts appointments as an arbitrator/expert and speaks, teaches & publishes in her fields of expertise/interests.
Dr. Schmeidler has over fifteen years of teaching/academic experience and has worked as a lawyer in several European countries and specifically in the top international arbitration practice groups of major international law firms based in Paris, with arbitration boutiques and sole practitioners (counsel and arbitrator) and as an independent practitioner (founder of a boutique law firm) with both civil- and/or common- law trained lawyers. In these positions, she has been involved in low- and high-stake complex international business projects and disputes in international investment- and commercial arbitration proceedings (ad-hoc and institutional) in various industries.
Jasmin’s current or past academic appointments include positions as a full-time doctoral research fellow and Assistant- Guest- and Lecturer at the Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), Paris-Descartes (Paris 5) and Humboldt (Berlin) Universities.
Jasmin is a member of the DIS (German Arbitration Institute), the Association française des docteurs en droit, Avocats sans frontières France and the Wirtschaftsjunioren Frankreich. As a merit scholar, Jasmin studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilian (Munich) and Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2) universities. She holds a double degree in French & German law (2002), a Maîtrise (Master’s degree) in International Law (2002), a Post-graduate degree in International Law (2003) and drafted a doctoral thesis (Ph.D.) in International & Comparative Law (Panthéon-Assas University, 2011) in French language. She also attended lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law (Netherlands) and the Arbitration Academy (Paris). Since school, Jasmin has always been involved in extra-curriculum and pro bono activities in various fields (e.g. (high level ) sports, arts, education).
Jasmin is fluent in English, French & German, has limited working proficiency in Italian and speaks some Farsi.
Maria Kierska is an advocate, member of the Dispute Resolution Team and Innovative Energy Team at DWF Poland. Maria holds a PhD title from Jagiellonian University, where she defended a PhD thesis on interim measures of protection in commercial arbitration.
She focuses on dispute resolution before common courts and arbitration tribunals concerning commercial and construction contracts (including FIDIC contracts), liability for damages, energy law disputes, interim measures and enforcement proceedings, as well as contracts negotiations and commercial mediation. Maria's experience also includes permitting and real estate aspects of renewable energy sector in Poland.
Maria in an author of numerous publications on private international law issues, civil procedure, commercial and emergency arbitration.
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