Manish Aggarwal Partner, ThreeCrowns LLP.
Mr. Manish Aggarwal is a partner at Three Crowns LLP in the London office, and a dual-qualified English solicitor and Indian advocate. He has represented and conducted advocacy for corporations and States in complex, high-value commercial and investment treaty arbitrations in a broad range of sectors, including telecommunications, technology, pharmaceuticals, energy, infrastructure, and renewables, under all major arbitration rules
Sheila Ahuja Partner, Allen & Overy.
Ms. Sheila Ahuja is a Partner in Allen & Overy's Global Arbitration group based in Singapore. She has advised on a wide range of arbitration matters and arbitration related court matters involving various jurisdictions such as Myanmar, Hong Kong, Singapore, England and Wales, the Philippines, the PRC and India.
Professor Stavros Brekoulakis Professor, Queen Mary University of London
Mr. Stavros Brekoulakis is a Professor and the Director of the School of International Arbitration atQueen Mary University of London, and an arbitrator at 3 Verulam Buildings (Gray’s Inn).He has been involved in international arbitration for more than 20 years as counsel, academic andexpert, and currently serves as arbitrator.
Premjit Dass Managing Director, Ankura
Mr. Premjit Dass is a Managing Director at Ankura, based in Singapore. He is a forensic accountant with close to 20 years’ experience. Premjit has acted as an expert witness in SIAC and ICSID arbitrations. Premjit’s experience includes accounting investigations, anti-bribery, and corruption investigations, commercial disputes, quantum of loss assessments, transaction related disputes, and breach of warranty claims and accounting manipulation claims.
Ziva Filipic Managing Counsel, ICC Court.
Prior to joining ICC, Ms. Ziva Filipic worked as a clerk at the Ljubljana district court, as legal assistant to Professor Martin Hunter at Essex Court Chambers in London, as an associate in the Banking and Finance team at Schoenherr Rechtsanwälte Attorneys at Law in Vienna, and as legal counsel at the Bank of Slovenia.
Timothy Foden Partner, LALIVE.
Mr. Timothy Foden is a partner of LALIVE (LONDON) LLP. He has acted in proceedings under the ICSID, ICC, SCAI, UNCITRAL, LCIA and ICDR arbitration rules and has extensive experience in the enforcement of commercial and ICSID arbitration awards in the courts of the United States, England and Belize.
Alain Grec Director and Head of Quantum Analysis, Profile Investment.
Alain Grec is a director and co-founder of Profile Investment and heads our quantum analysis division. Prior to founding PI in 2018 with Iain McKenny, Alain founded and led with Guy Lepage La Française International Claims Collection from 2009 to 2018, a third party funder with a core specialism in International arbitration and enforcement of investment treaty awards.
Steve Harris Senior Managing Director Economic & Financial Consulting
Mr. Steve Harris is a Senior Managing Director in the Economic Consulting segment at FTI Consulting. He is based in Dubai and founded the segment’s Expert Witness practice in the United Arab Emirates in 2013. He has over 14 years of experience as a forensic accountant, focusing on identifying and quantifying economic loss in the context of commercial disputes across a range of industries. He is listed in the Who’s Who Legal 2018 survey of leading International Arbitration Expert Witnesses and has been instructed as an expert in ICC, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC, CAS, Swiss Federal Court and Hong Kong court proceedings.
Mohanadass Kanagasabai Managing Partner, Mohanadass Partnership.
Mr. Mohanadass Kanagasabai has two decades of dispute resolution experience. He is rated by the Asia Pacific Legal 500 as a leading individual for dispute resolution in Malaysia. Described as an “arbitration specialist” with a “giant reputation”, Mohanadass is a former President of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators and former Chair of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee of the Inter Pacific Bar Association.
Vivek Kapoor Senior Associate, Stephenson Hardwood.
Mr. Vivek acts as counsel and advocate in international arbitrations conducted under the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, and UNCITRAL rules and ad-hoc arrangements, and arising from diverse industry sectors, particularly energy, mining and natural resources, infrastructure, construction and engineering, defence, manufacturing, telecom and technology sectors. He is recognised in Legal 500 UK (2019) as a “Next Generation Lawyer” for International Arbitration and ranked in Legal 500 for Public International Law and International Arbitration (2018, 2019).
Sumit Khosla Partner, Accuracy.
Sumit Khosla is a Partner with Accuracy, siting across Europe and India. He has over 20 years’ experience in the Transaction and Arbitration space and specialises in cross border transaction advisory and post transaction valuations in international arbitration cases. Sumit has acted as an independent expert appointed in the context of shareholders’ agreements to determine the value of shares or in the context of Share Purchase Agreements to determine price adjustments. He has provided evidence before LCIA, SIAC and New Delhi Company Law Board.
Sumit speaks French, English and Hindi.
Akshay Kishore Counsel, CMS.
Akshay is a Counsel in CMS Singapore’s Dispute Resolution practice. He is an experienced international dispute resolution lawyer, specialising in advising clients in commercial arbitrations
Michelle Sunita Kummar Deputy Head of Legal, AIAC
Michelle is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and a Barrister at Law from the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn (UK). She has also been called to the High Court of Malaya (Malaysia) and the Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia) and is accordingly, qualified to practice in the United Kingdom, Australia and Malaysia. Michelle read law at Cardiff University in Wales and graduated with an LL.B (First Class) Honours degree. She is presently the Deputy Head of Legal at AIAC.
Mr. Eurof Lloyd-Lewis Partner, Clyde & Co.
Mr. Eurof Lloyd-Lewis specialises in dry shipping, commodities, international trade, offshore and commercial litigation. He regularly advises shipowners, charterers, cargo interests, ship managers, brokers, banks and trading houses with regard to issues arising out of charterparties, bills of lading, sale contracts including derivatives, documentary credits, insurance and trade finance.
He has considerable experience in handling LMAA, GAFTA. FOSFA, LCIA, etc., arbitrations in London and overseas.
Kevin Nash Deputy Registrar, SIAC.
Mr. Kevin Nash is the Deputy Registrar and the Centre Director at SIAC. He assists the Registrar in the administration of all cases filed with SIAC, and the supervision of SIAC's multinational Secretariat.
Prof. Steve K. Ngo
Mr. Professor Steve Ngo MCIArb is a practitioner of international arbitration and dispute resolution. He has advised public and private entities not only on post-dispute matters but negotiation, mediation and dispute management. Over the past decade, he has focused on Indonesia and China, the two key growth economies of Asia and South East Asia
Lomesh Nidumuri Partner, Indus Law.
Mr. Lomesh Nidumuri is a Partner at Indus Law, Bangaore. He has been appointed to the Committee of Young Singapore International Arbitration Centre (YSIAC) as one of only four committee members from Indian Law Firms. He is a member of the Users Council of SIAC and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Mohan Pillay Joint Head of Singapore Joint Law Venture, Pinsent Masons
He is a Singapore and UK qualified lawyer with nearly 30 years of experience in commercial litigation and regional arbitration work, particularly in construction and engineering projects. He has appeared as lead Counsel before the High Court and Court of Appeal in Singapore. Mohan is a Chartered Arbitrator & accredited Adjudicator, and on Panels of SIAC, SIArb and KL Regional Centre for Arbitration.
Gaganpreet Puri Partner and Leader, Forensic Services, PwC.
Mr. Gaganpreet Puri leads the Forensic practice of PwC in India. Gagan’s career spans 20 years of Forensic engagements in over 30 countries. His extensive experience involves matter in Arbitration both Indian and International.
Professor Catherine Rogers Penn State Law.
Ms. Catherine A. Rogers is a scholar of international arbitration and professional ethics at Penn State Law, with a dual appointment as Professor of Ethics, Regulation, and the Rule of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is also Co-Director of the Institute for Ethics and Regulation. is a Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration. Among other appointments, she sits on the Board of Directors of the Lagos Court of Arbitration, the International Advisory Board of the Vienna International Arbitration Centre, the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS) Academic Forum on ISDS, and Oxford University Press’ Investment Claims Advisory Board.
Thomas Snider Partner, Head of Arbitration, Al Tamimi & Co
Mr. Thomas Snider is a Partner and the firm’s Head of Arbitration at Al Tamimi & Co. based in the Dubai office. He is experienced in international commercial arbitration, international investment disputes, state-to-state arbitration, and foreign sovereign immunity issues. Tom has been recognised multiple times in Who’s Who Legal’s Future Leaders – Arbitration, a listing of the world’s leading international arbitration practitioners under the age of 45.
Thomas P. Valenti
Mr. Thomas Valenti is a Chicago based conflict resolution specialist offering mediation, arbitration, and facilitation services and training, globally. Tom is a member of several Bar Associations, including the American, Chicago, Illinois and Indian Bar, and is a co-founder and former Board Member of Mediation Beyond Borders.
Felipe Sperandio Counsel, Clyde and Co.
Felipe is a counsel in Clyde & Co’s international arbitration group in London.He has extensive experience in complex commercial arbitrations involving a variety of jurisdictions with a focus in Latin America and the Sub-Saharan Africa region.He frequently speaks at arbitration conferences in multiple jurisdictions, has published a number of articles in Brazil and has been quoted by the São Paulo Court of Appeal.