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CONTENTS

Foreword

PART I.  THE THIRD-PARTY FUNDING LANDSCAPE

Approaches to Defining Third-Party Funding
Maximilian Albert Müller

The Use of Funding Brokers and Advisors to Navigate Third-Party Funding
Charles M. Agee and Wendie Childress

The Regulation of Third-Party Funding in the EU
Ben Steinbrueck and Stefan Zeyher

Cost of Third-Party Funding- Selected Perspectives on Treatment and Recoverability
Colin Ong
 

PART II.  THE ACTORS’ PERSPECTIVES

Potential Conflict of Interest between Arbitrators and Funders
Catherine A. Rodgers 

Disclosure Obligations in Commercial and Investment Arbitration
Nikolaus Pitkowitz and Maximilian Albert Müller

Sources of Counsel's Duties to Non-clients in the Third-Party Context 
Anthony Sebok

Third-Party Funding in Investment Arbitration
Victoria Shannon Sahani
 

PART III.  THE FUNDER’S PERSPECTIVE

Case Selection and Commercial Terms of Funding Agreements
Mick Smith and Jeffery Commission

Funder's Case Evaluation and Legal Due Diligence
Ania Farren and Sonia Morton

Legal Finance – Different Types of Third-Party Funding and Alternatives
Andreas Jevtic and Alice Fremuth-Wolf

From Concept to Capital: A Guide to Third-Party Funding Agreements
Nikolaus Pitkowitz and Maximilian Albert Müller
 

PART IV.   COUNTRY REPORTS

Albania
Alban Caushi

Austria
Nikolaus Pitkowitz and Maximilian Albert Müller

Belgium
Hakim Boularbah and Olivier van der Haegen

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lejla Ademovic and Lejla Bošnjak

Brazil
Newton Lins de Noronha and Caio Cielo Nitz

Canada
 James Plotkin and Thomas Yates

China
Wei Sun

Croatia
Dora Horvat and Petra Marijanović

Egypt
Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab

England & Wales
James Freeman and Pranay Lekhi

France
Jalal El Ahdab and Pierre Pic

Germany
Wolf von Bernuth

Hong Kong
Sherlin Hsie-lien Tung

Hungary
Sára Darnót, Péter Lakatos, and Balázs Fazakas

India
Arush Khanna and Rishika Jain

Ireland
Paula Gibbs

Japan
Aoi Inoue

Montenegro
Milan Lazić and Milica Volarev

The Netherlands
Thomas Stouten and Hans Biezenaar

North Macedonia
Bojana Paneva

Poland
Paweł Pietkiewicz and Krzysztof Popławski

Portugal
Duarte G. Henriques

Scotland
Brandon Malone and Frances Sim

Serbia
Milan Lazić and Milica Volarev

Singapore
Chen Siyuan and Louis Lau Yi Hang

Slovakia
Martin Magal and Beáta Ramljaková

Slovenia
Minu Anamaria Gvardjancic

South Korea
Robert Wachter and Hyunyang Koo

Spain
Guillermo Ruiz Medrano and Joan Braun Arañó 

Sweden
Christoffer Monell

Switzerland
Simon Vorburger and Simon Weber

Turkiye
Simel Sarıalioğlu

Ukraine
Andriy Kulko and Irina Paliashvili 

United Arab Emirates
Stuart Paterson, Janine Mallis, and Samuel Hunt          

United States

State of California
Amy Roebuck Frey and Lorna Maupilé Nicolson

District of Columbia
Kenneth B. Reisenfeld, Paul M. Levine, and Stephen Benz

State of Florida
C. Ryan Reetz

State of Georgia
Glenn P. Hendrix

State of Illinois
Lawrence Schaner

State of New York
Ina C. Popova and Christel Y. Tham

EDITOR (AND CONTRIBUTOR)

Nikolaus Pitkowitz is founding partner and head of dispute resolution at Pitkowitz & Partners, and President of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC).  He is regarded as one of the leading Austrian arbitration practitioners. He has acted as party counsel and arbitrator in over 130 international disputes, in cases ranging from smaller to multibillion cases, located in Europe, the United States and Asia. Most notable is his role as counsel in the largest ever pending arbitration in Austria, as well as in arbitrations seated across Europe, in the Americas and in Asia. Dr. Pitkowitz has also acted as party counsel in a variety of complex litigation proceedings and has handled cases of great public interest, including before the European Court of Justice (ECJ). He is experienced in a variety of industries, including energy, automotive, telecommunications, arts, (post-)M&A, real estate, and construction.

Dr. Pitkowitz  holds law degrees from the Universities of Vienna (JD and PhD) and Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (MBL) and is also qualified and certified as a mediator.  He is an arbitrator and panel member of all the leading arbitration institutions, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). He also acts as Court Member of the Casablanca International Arbitration and Mediation Centre (CIMAC) and as Vice-chair of the International Arbitration Committee of the Section of International Law of the American Bar Association (ABA). Dr. Pitkowitz frequently lectures and is author of over 50 publications, including a monograph on setting aside arbitral awards and the Handbook on Third Party Funding in International Arbitration. He is also co-editor of the Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration and co-organizer of the Vienna Arbitration Days.

CONTRIBUTORS

Lejla Ademović is an independent attorney at Law practicing in Sarajevo in cooperation with Karanovic & Partners. She is a senior member of the Employment, Dispute Resolution and Corporate & Commercial practice group, and has extensive experience in advising clients on all types of transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations and restructurings, and project financing. She also regularly provides day-to-day corporate advisory to companies, helping them with matters of governance, compliance, and the regulatory aspects of their business, and represents clients before courts and other authorities.

Charles M. Agee is the founder and CEO of Westfleet Advisors, a legal finance advisory firm. Westfleet advises lawyers and their clients, helping them to navigate the complex and opaque world of legal finance. Mr. Agee has led Westfleet since 2013, and prior to that, managed one of the first legal finance funds in the United States.  He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in Economics from Rhodes College.

Stephen Benz is an Associate in the International Arbitration & Litigation Practice group of Baker & Hostetler LLP.  He also is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Law Center where he teaches international commercial arbitration.  He has published articles on international arbitration and litigation in the Georgetown Journal of International Law and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.

Hans Biezenaar is a lawyer specialized in international arbitration and litigation. In the field of arbitration, he focuses on post-arbitration disputes regarding the enforcement or annulment of arbitral awards. He is also involved in commercial court litigation and class actions, particularly in relation to insurance law. He regularly publishes on these topics and was a co-author of one of the first books that was published on the new Dutch law on collective redress.

Lejla Bošnjak is a Member of Corporate & Commercial and Banking & Finance practice groups. She primarily advises clients on all aspects of corporate matters, commercial law, pharmaceutical law and healthcare, data protection, compliance, regulatory matters and consumer protection. In addition, Ms. Bošnjak advises clients on financial regulatory topics.

Hakim Boularbah is a Partner at Loyens & Loeff Brussels office where he heads the Litigation & Risk Management practice group. He is an expert in complex and international dispute resolution. His practice covers civil and corporate litigation (class actions, shareholders’ disputes, post-acquisition claims, etc.), asset recovery, and international arbitration, including proceedings related to arbitration, such as enforcement, setting aside and interim measures. He also has an extensive practice in enforcement of foreign judgments or arbitral awards (especially against sovereign states) as well as in obtaining interim relief and protective measures or resisting them. His expertise has been internationally recognised (The Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, Leaders League, WWL: Litigation, WWL: Arbitration and WWL: Asset Recovery). He is also one of the most renowned specialists in the field of collective redress. Mr. Boularbah has broad experience as sole, chair and co-arbitrator, and as counsel, in national and international commercial arbitrations (CEPANI, ICC, OHADA, ad hoc, etc), especially in contract and corporate disputes. He is frequently appointed as arbitrator by the ICC, CEPANI and the Belgian Courts of First Instance. He is a professor at the University of Liège (ULg), where he teaches civil procedure law. He is the author of numerous books and publications on civil procedure, private international law and arbitration law.

Joan Braun Arañó is a Spanish attorney-at-law registered in the Barcelona Bar Association. He specializes in dispute resolution and distressed matters involving multiple jurisdictions, with a focus on restructuring, refinancing, pre-insolvency, and litigation funding. He advises investment funds, banks and other financing entities on distress scenarios involving restructuring and liquidity injection, defensive postpetition, and loan-to-own financing, as well as on insolvency proceedings in the common phase and in the framework of liquidation plans. He also assists investors and brokers in the negotiation, execution, and enforcement of litigation funding agreements. Additionally, he has experience advising insurers on various court-related matters, such as liability claims, coverage disputes, and subrogation actions.

Alban Caushi has more than 27 years of professional experience as an attorney in private commercial practice, focusing his expertise on banking, dispute resolution and real estate. He is ranked by Chambers Europe (2022/2023) as a leading lawyer in Litigations involved in most significant cases, and notable in the fields of corporate/commercial projects.

Wendie Childress is a seasoned commercial trial lawyer, with almost twenty years of litigation experience, and an expert in legal finance. As Managing Director and Counsel in the Westfleet Advisors Houston office, she works directly with clients and their counsel on their side of a deal to evaluate opportunities for legal finance transactions and advise through all stages of the process to ensure that they get the best experience and terms. Ms. Childress graduated with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin, where she received an undergraduate and law degree.

Jeffery Commission is a Director, based in Washington, DC, with Burford Capital.  He has 20+ years of experience representing and funding claimants in investment treaty disputes and international commercial arbitrations.  He previously practiced at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, New York, and Washington, DC. He is co-author of Procedural Issues in International Investment Arbitration (Oxford University Press, 2018) and the forthcoming Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration: Law and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Sára Darnót LL.M. is a distinguished attorney specializing in civil litigation and commercial arbitration, with an impressive academic pursuit as a PhD candidate in civil procedure and a lecturer at ELTE Faculty of Law. Her career is marked by a significant role at Lakatos Köves and Partners, reflecting a robust legal practice combined with academic contributions. Her expertise encompasses international arbitration, university teaching, and insolvency law, supported by her proficiency in German and English. Her achievements include several honors and awards, showcasing her legal acumen and commitment to excellence. With publications in various legal topics, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the field of arbitration financing.

Jalal El Ahdab (Jil Ahdab) is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Group at Bird & Bird in Paris, the head of its Arbitration Department in France and a member of its Dispute Resolution practice in the UAE, where he offers clients longstanding and cross-border expertise in managing international disputes and arbitrations. His practice area is international business law, with a focus on international disputes and foreign investments, notably in Europe, Africa and the MENA region. Having acted as a counsel, arbitrator and expert in over 150 cases, he has in-depth experience in managing complex disputes including shareholders' rights, suits against States, class actions, breach of negotiations and bank guarantees. He is a former UNCITRAL representative (2013/2018) and member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC (2015/2021), and also vice-chair (Chair from 2017 to 2021) of the European Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and am the co-chair of the IBA Arab Regional Forum. Last, he is a member of the Advisory Board of VIAC (the Vienna International Arbitration Centre) and a member of the Board of the Association Française d’Arbitrage (AFA).

Ania Farren is a Partner at Fieldfisher. She is a highly experienced practitioner who advises and represents States and corporate entities in a wide variety of international dispute resolution and public international law matters, including commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. She has over 20 years of experience as counsel; She has acted as counsel in disputes conducted under all of the major arbitration rules including ICC, ICSID, ICSID Additional Facility, LCIA and SCC. She is Chair of the ICC UK Committee for Arbitration and ADR and Co-Chair of the International Arbitration Charity Ball.  She also sits as an Arbitrator and is a member of Arbitra. She previously worked at a leading third party funder.

Balázs Fazakas stands out as a forward-thinking lawyer with over ten years of experience, leading the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group while playing a significant role in the Corporate and M&A Groups. His expertise is recognized globally, with acknowledgments from both Hungarian and international courts and arbitration tribunals. Mr. Fazakas is a skilled ICC Arbitrator, actively contributes to the legal community as an organizer and judge of the Budapest Willem C. Vis Pre-Moot, and trains upcoming lawyers in litigation. His contributions have earned him high rankings by prestigious legal directories like Chambers Europe and The Legal 500.

James Freeman is a Partner in, and head of, the International Arbitration Group in the London office of Allen & Overy. He has conducted arbitrations under all major institutional rules and at all the main seats, in a wide range of industry sectors. He acts in both commercial and investor-state cases. He is a Solicitor Advocate and routinely appears as an advocate at substantive hearings. Legal 500 and Chambers UK have described him as an “excellent advocate,” “a class act” and “particularly impressive.”

Alice Fremuth-Wolf is Market Head of Austria and the CEE region at Nivalion. Before joining Nivalion, Alice Ms. Fremuth-Wolf was Secretary General of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) for 10 years. She is a lecturer for arbitration at the Institute of Civil Procedure Law at the Law Faculty of Vienna University, and frequently acts as guest lecturer. She has authored numerous articles and books on arbitration and ADR. In addition to her academic career, she worked as an associate for the leading law firms Wolf Theiss and Baker McKenzie in Vienna where she passed the Austrian bar exam, acting as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitration and mediation cases. Alice Ms. Fremuth-Wolf graduated in law from Vienna University (Mag. iur.), holds a PhD in law (Dr. iur.) and an LL.M. degree (London School of Economics). She is also a trained mediator and mediation advocate. She speaks German and English.

Amy Frey focuses on all types of cross-border disputes, including investment treaty and commercial arbitration, as well as public international law and human rights law. A Partner in King & Spalding’s International Arbitration practice, Ms. Frey’s experience ranges from representing corporates and investors from all over the world with claims against foreign states arising from bilateral investment treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty to contract and licensing disputes. She counsels clients in arbitration under the ICSID, ICC, SCC and UNCITRAL arbitration rules. She also advises clients on foreign investment structuring and planning, on domestic litigation proceedings involving challenges to and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, and on EU disputes involving state aid and intra-EU arbitration. Although not admitted to practice in California, she has nearly a decade of experience advising on TPF agreements. Ms. Frey is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Texas, and Paris, France.

Paula Gibbs is an Irish solicitor specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration. She studied law at University College Dublin and The University of Melbourne. She is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales, New Zealand, the British Virgin Islands and Ireland. She trained at Allen & Overy LLP in London and Singapore and worked in Auckland, Melbourne, Hong Kong and the BVI before returning to Ireland. She has acted on cases funded by third party funders in New Zealand and Hong Kong. She is currently Group Litigation Lead Counsel at Kerry Group plc.

Minu Anamaria Gvardjančič, LL.M is a Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution and Employment department in the Law firm Ketler & Partners, member of Karanovic. Dr. Gvardjančič has vast experience in representing domestic and foreign clients in complex commercial and civil disputes and in domestic and international arbitrations. She is a certified mediator and has also specialized in the field of resolution of labour disputes. She is the author of numerous articles and a lecturer at conferences in the field of arbitration. Since 2023 Dr. Gvardjančič also has been the VIAC CAN Ambassador for Slovenia.

Glenn Hendrix is the Chair Emeritus of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, an AmLaw 200 law firm with offices in Atlanta and Washington D.C.  Mr. Hendrix has served as an arbitrator or counsel in cases administered by the ICDR, MKAS, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the ICC, JAMS International, the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) Dispute Resolution Service, and other institutions, as well as numerous ad hoc proceedings. He also has considerable experience in litigation ancillary to arbitration, such as actions for emergency relief, petitions to obtain evidence under 28 U.S.C. § 1782, and proceedings to enforce arbitral agreements and awards.  Mr. Hendrix is consistently listed each year in The International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration, and as a leading practitioner by Chambers. He was recognized by Best Lawyers as “International Arbitration Lawyer of the Year” for Atlanta in 2021 and 2023. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a former Chair of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section. He co-chaired the ABA’s annual business dispute resolution conference in Moscow, Russia each year from 2009 to 2021. He is the Founding President of the Atlanta International Arbitration Society (AtlAS). He chairs the Dispute Resolution Service Review Board for the AHLA Dispute Resolution Service, which rules on petitions to remove arbitrators. He is a dual US-British citizen.

Duarte Henriques is an international arbitrator with over three decades of experience. He has sat as arbitrator and counsel in a number of high-value and complex cases related to investment disputes, banking & finance, corporate, commercial, distribution, copyrights and construction disputes. Mr. Henriques has been involved in matters involving major banking and finance institutions, insurance companies, companies in the energy sector, bio-pharmaceutical companies, and technology / software solution providers in litigation and arbitration disputes. He has sat as chair, sole and co-arbitrator in disputes seated in jurisdictions across the globe including Austria, China, Russia, Canada, France, and Portugal and that have been administered by internationally recognized institutions such as the ICDR and HKIAC, as well as AdHoc.

Dora Horvat focuses her practice on dispute resolution and commercial litigation matters, where she represents clients in a broad spectrum of complex disputes before national courts and arbitration tribunals. She is also in charge of employment and labour law matters, giving advice to both domestic and international clients. Ms. Horvat regularly advises clients in different fields of commercial and corporate law matters, and she has been actively involved in important projects in competition law cases. She is also in charge of advising German-speaking clients.

Samuel Hunt is an Australian-qualified associate in the Dubai disputes practice with a focus on complex, large scale construction and engineering disputes. Prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills, he worked out of Brisbane Australia, where he assisted clients with disputes concerning major infrastructure and mining projects, in particular disputes concerning road and rail. In the Middle East, Mr. Hunt has acted on a mix of general commercial and construction disputes, both through arbitration and actions in the DIFC Courts.

Aoi Inoue is a Partner and the Head of the International Arbitration Practice at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. He specializes in international arbitration and litigation. He represents clients in a wide range of business disputes, including joint venture, construction projects, licensing, distributorship, franchising, complex financial products, labor & employment and product liability. He has acted as counsel in a number of international arbitrations under various rules including the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, AAA-ICDR, JCAA, CIETAC and UNCITRAL. He also serves as arbitrator and has been appointed to the panel of arbitrators of the JCAA, KCAB INTERNATIONAL and Japan Sports Arbitration Agency (JSAA). He currently serves as an executive director of the Japan International Dispute Resolution Center (JIDRC) and a director of the Japan Association of Arbitrators (JAA). He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC). He has been recognized as a leading arbitration lawyer in Chambers & Partners, Who's Who Legal: Thought Leaders, The Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation and Best Lawyers.  Mr. Inoue received his LL.B. from the University of Tokyo and holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School. He is admitted to practice in Japan and New York. He worked for Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, a New York law firm as a visiting attorney (2010 to 2011) before he resumed his position at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. He co-authored Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration (Maruzen-Yushodo, 2016).

Rishika Jain is currently employed as a corporate legal asistant within the Legal Team at LAScan Beverage Company AB (AB InBev Group) located in Stockholm, Sweden. She is an Advocate & Legal Consultant enrolled with the Bar Council of India. She had worked as an Associate with the Dispute Resolution Team of a multi-disciplinary law firm, named Numen Law Offices in Delhi, India. Additionally, she is actively involved with academia and has also authored, presented and got  published various research papers at reputed universities and organisations involving issues of dispute resolution, international commercial arbitration, insolvency laws, etc. She is also pursuing her master's degree from Stockholm University in the International Commercial Arbitration Law (ICAL) programme.

Andreas Jevtic is Senior Case Manager at Nivalion. Before joining Nivalion, he gained years of experience in international arbitration in law firms in Vienna and Frankfurt and as a senior counsel at a Fortune 500 company in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Mr. Jevtic is an Austrian-qualified attorney and graduated from the University of Vienna, Austria with an exchange at Lund University, Sweden. He speaks German, English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.

Arush Khanna (FCIArb) is a Co-Founder and Partner at Numen Law Offices, a multi-disciplinary firm based in New Delhi and Mumbai. He specializes in Commercial Disputes with a key focus on Arbitration, Insolvency & Bankruptcy and Real Estate. After having enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Coucnil of Dellhi in 2012, he went on to do his Masters (Business Laws) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Young Members Group (CIArb India). He was appointed as the Vice-Chair of the IBA India Working Group and is an Officer with the Young Lawyers Committee. In 2021, he was named as one India’s "Rising Stars" by Asian Legal Business  and a ‘Future Legal Leader’ by the India Business Law Journal. Mr. Khanna is also a columnist with the Indian Express and has several publications to his credit across various international journals.

Hyunyang Koo, as a Partner at Lee & Ko’s International Arbitration Team, handles a broad range of international arbitration and cross-border litigation matters involving international construction, software license agreements, military projects, international sports-related disputes, distributorship agreements and etc.  Prior to joining Lee & Ko in 2016, she worked at Samsung C&T legal team (international construction), where she handled legal affairs and advice regarding various offshore construction contracts in Australia, North America, South-East Asia, and Middle East.  In Lee & Ko, her main area of practice includes international arbitration cases at leading arbitral institutions such as ICC, KCAB, SIAC, LCIA, SHIAC, CAS as well as ad hoc arbitrations and cross-border litigations. Ms. Koo has participated in many international arbitration conferences as a speaker.  She is an active member of the international arbitration society and has been appointed as a Regional Ambassador for HK45 and a member of the Steering Committee for Young MCIA. 

Andriy Kulko received a master’s degree in international law and a master's in translation with high honors from National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, School of International Relations.  In 2009, he earned a Ph.D. in international law and in 2019 Dr. Sc. in international law. He has successfully combined an academic career with practicing law.  He has authored many important academic works, has served as a senior specialist with the Legislation Institute of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine, and has practiced law with leading Ukrainian law firms, working on major international assignments. Mr. Kulko’s areas of expertise include public international law, private international law, constitutional law, civil, business and corporate law, white collar crime, antitrust, labor law and land/real estate law. He is the author of two individual monographs on public international law and has over 70 publications in scientific journals in Ukraine and abroad. He is fluent in Ukrainian, English, Russian, and has a working knowledge of German.

Péter Lakatos, an esteemed Managing Partner at Lakatos, Köves and Partners, is renowned for his extensive legal expertise, especially in the Hungarian telecommunication, media, and technology sectors. With a career spanning several decades, including a pivotal role as Managing Partner at Clifford Chance Budapest, he has significantly contributed to the regulatory frameworks in telecommunications across Hungary and Southeast Europe. His advisory roles in Hungary’s EU accession and the digitalisation of Hungarian TV underline his influence in legal reforms. Recognized for his dedication to the legal profession, Dr. Lakatos was honored with the “Excellent Lawyer” award by the Hungarian Bar in November 2021. His unique blend of legal insight and cultural contributions, notably as a pianist at legal events, highlights his multifaceted impact on the legal community.

Louis Lau Yi Hang (LL.B, Summa cum Laude) is currently serving as a Justices' Law Clerk in the Supreme Court of Singapore. In this capacity, he assists the Chief Justice and Justices of the Supreme Court in all manners of litigation before the High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Singapore International Commercial Court. He holds a concurrent position as Adjunct Faculty at Singapore Management University and teaches Business Law and Ethics and Social Responsibility. He has published in leading international journals, including Tort Law Review, Arbitration International, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, and Civil Justice Quarterly, as well as contributed to textbook chapters on topics such as the Law of Evidence and Civil Procedure.

Milan Lazić is a Senior Partner and the head of regional Arbitration and Litigation Practice at Karanović & Partners. With over 20 years of professional experience, he has represented clients in a number of high-profile international court cases as well as in a number of major international arbitration cases before the ICSID, ICC, PCA, Permanent Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia and other local arbitral institutions. He advises clients across many industries and is highly experienced in international and domestic corporate and commercial litigation. He advises large corporations and international and domestic public institutions as well. Mr. Lazić is recognized as the top law practitioner by prominent international legal directories on a regular basis. He has also acted as an arbitrator in multiple arbitral proceedings before the ICC, Permanent Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia and Belgrade Arbitration Centre.

Pranay Lekhi is an associate in the International Arbitration Group in the London office of Allen & Overy. He is a dual-qualified lawyer, having qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, as well as an advocate in India. His areas of practice include public international law, international investment arbitration and international commercial arbitration.

Paul M. Levine  is an international disputes Partner at Baker & Hostetler, LLP, who has participated in arbitrations before ICSID, the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and the Permanent Court for of Arbitration, including disputes where funding has been provided. He has also served as an expert witness regarding arbitration enforcement procedures and litigated international disputes and has represented a group of international scholars before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarding the applicability of the ICSID Convention to intra-European Union investor-state disputes. Prior to working at Baker & Hostetler, Mr. Levine worked for the United States Department of Justice and served as a law clerk for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.  

Newton Lins de Noronha is an entrepreneur, with considerable experience in the energy sector and distressed investing with sole focus on special situations projects and litigation finance. Mr. Noronha started his career at Delba, an oil & gas services company, where he headed the legal department and was a key member in the project finance team responsible for structuring the financing, building and chartering of Drillships and Semi-Submersible rigs. After coordinating complex litigations within the Delba group, Mr. Noronha launched Columbus Capital to structure the funding of legal claims in Brazil. He later  joined Algarve Capital, a Brazilian litigation fund as VP of Sales & Origination. He holds a Bachelor in Law degree from Universidade Candido Mendes (2012) and an MBA from Imperial College London (2016).

Martin Magál heads Allen & Overy’s Litigation and Arbitration practice in Slovakia, and co-ordinates the Dispute Resolution practice in Allen & Overy’s CEE offices. He represents clients before arbitral tribunals and general courts, including the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic. Mr. Magal is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an arbitrator at the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC).  He has acted as party representative in numerous arbitrations conducted under the arbitration rules of the ICC, SCCI (Court of Arbitration of the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry) and PAC SBA (Permanent Arbitration Court of the Slovak Banking Association). He has also acted as an arbitrator in arbitrations conducted under the VIAC rules.

Janine Mallis is a Senior Associate and solicitor advocate in the Dubai dispute resolution practice of Herbert Smith Freehills. Her areas of focus include shareholder and joint venture disputes, disputes in the hospitality and financial services sectors and employment-related claims.  Her experience includes dispute resolution through litigation in the English, DIFC and regional courts and international arbitration in LCIA, ICC, DIAC and ad hoc arbitrations.

Brandon Malone is a Scottish advocate now practising as an independent arbitrator with Arbitra International.  He has over thirty years’ experience in commercial dispute resolution. As well as his Scottish qualifications, he is called to the bar of England and Wales and has rights of audience before the courts of the DIFC, Dubai.  He is member of the FIDIC President’s List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators, an RICS, IMI and CMC registered Mediator, and is listed on the arbitral rosters of many of the world’s leading arbitral institutions, including AAA/ICDR, SIAC, HKIAC, and DIAC.  He has particular expertise in construction, engineering and energy disputes, and significant experience of arbitrating cryptocurrency and blockchain disputes. Mr. Malone is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an Eminent Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.  He designed and established the Scottish Arbitration Centre, and chaired its Board from its inception in 2011 until 2022.  He currently chairs the Scottish Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and the ICCA – New York City Bar – CPR Institute Working Group on Cybersecurity in International Arbitration, and is a member of the ICC UK Arbitration Committee.

Petra Marijanović focuses her practice on dispute resolution and assists both national and international clients in disputes arising out of complex contractual relationships before arbitral tribunals and national courts. In particular, her practice focuses on the construction, energy, and major projects sector as well as commercial law matters and post M&A disputes. Her experience covers a variety of disputes related to, among others, major projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Ms. Marijanović has conducted arbitral proceedings under the most relevant arbitration rules, among them the ICC Rules, the Vienna Rules, and UNCITRAL Rules. She also regularly advises clients on various commercial, contract, corporate, and labor law matters.

Lorna Maupilé Nicolson is an associate in King & Spalding’s International Arbitration Group. Her practice focuses on international commercial and investment disputes. She counsels clients in arbitration under various procedural rules, including the ICC, ICSID, LCIA and UNCITRAL arbitration rules. Lorna Ms. Maupilé has represented and advised clients in a variety of sectors, including energy and power, infrastructure, mining, and natural resources. Her engagements include acting as Administrative Secretary to arbitral tribunals. She also has experience in international criminal and international human rights law. She is admitted to practice in California and in Paris, France.

Christoffer Monell is a member of Mannheimer Swartling’s Dispute Resolution practice group and based in Gothenburg. He is qualified as Swedish Advokat and focuses on cross-border and insolvency-related disputes. He represents clients in domestic and international litigation and arbitration proceedings, including disputes under delivery, manufacturing and construction contracts as well as post-M&A disputes. Mr. Monell has been involved in a large number of international arbitrations under the SCC and ICC Rules and serves as arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional proceedings.

Sonia Morton is a senior associate in the Dispute Resolution team at Fieldfisher. Her practice focuses on international arbitration, in particular, Investor-State disputes. She has experience advising both States and investors before the LCIA, ICC, SCC, and other rules. She has acted in disputes concerning a variety of sectors including energy, finance, and TMT, and across a variety of regions, in particular, Russia and the CIS, and MENA.

Maximilian Albert Müller, LL.M. is an attorney-at-law in the Dispute Resolution Team of Pitkowitz & Partners. He specializes in advising and representing international clients in commercial litigation and arbitration as well as out-of-court dispute resolution. He has particular expertise in the efficient handling of trade disputes, the defense against investor and insurance claims, IP protection, shareholder disputes as well as post-M&A disputes. In doing so, he looks back on many years of successfully working with clients from a broad range of sectors and industries, including financial services, manufacturing and technology.  In addition, he has broad expertise in contract law, having advised on numerous (financing) transactions. Maximilian also regularly advises on corporate law and KYC/AML compliance. Prior to joining Pitkowitz & Partners, he worked as an associate in renowned law firms in Vienna and, among others, as a volunteer at the Austrian Trade Commission in Hong Kong.
     Mag. Müller holds law degrees from the University of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne (LL.M. with distinction cum laude) and the University of Vienna (Mag.iur.) and has passed the Austrian Bar Exam with distinction. He has authored many publications relating to his legal practice and has been recognized by the German business newspaper Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers for his expertise in international arbitration.

Caio Cielo Nitz is a lawyer with specific expertise in litigation and is a member of the legal team at Lumina Capital Management, where he focuses on investments in legal claims and litigation financing. Prior to joining Lumina, Caio was part of the legal teams at Lucon Advogados and BMA Advogados, consistently engaging in strategic litigation and domestic and international arbitrations. Mr. Nitz holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of São Paulo and is currently pursuing an MBA in Economics and Corporate Finance at the São Paulo School of Economics and Business Administration (FGV/SP).

Colin Ong's experience as arbitrator and as counsel cuts across a wide range of commercial law areas, including banking, construction, energy disputes, insurance, mining, intellectual property, post-M&A; shipping and commercial-related matters. He has acted as counsel or presiding arbitrator or party-appointed arbitrator in over 390 international commercial and investment arbitrations. He is the first ASEAN-practising lawyer appointed Queen’s Counsel (now KC) and elected as Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple. He has been listed by Who’s Who Legal as a Thought Leader in Arbitration, Construction and Litigation (since 2017) and a top-30 elite arbitration practitioner by Expert Guides:Best-of-the-Best. He is a member of China’s Supreme People’s Court International Commercial Expert Committee; a Vice Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee; Chairman of the International Advisory Boards of both THAC (Thailand) and JIIART (Japan); a board member of VIAC (Austria). He is also the author of arbitration and legal texts including chapters in leading books on the subject of advocacy and cross-examination. Dr. Ong was a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration (Task Force, New York Convention) and the ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force (Costs and Third-Party Funding). He has been a visiting law professor at many distinguished civil law and common law universities since 1997 and is ranked as a leader in all practice areas of Legal500 English Bar Silks (Asia-Pacific) and in other directories as a leading English commercial silk and arbitrator.

Irina Paliashvili began her private practice by co-founding one of the first private law firms in Ukraine and expanded by founding the Washington-based RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A., where she serves as the President and Senior Counsel. She graduated with highest honors from Kyiv State University School of International Law and earned a Ph.D. in private international law from the same school.  Dr. Paliashvili  also holds an LL.M. in international and comparative law from George Washington University.  She is licensed to practice Ukrainian law as a Special Legal Consultant in the District of Columbia and is a member of the Kyiv Bar.  Dr. Paliashvili serves as the Chair of the Legal Committee of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, the International Rule of Law Officer of the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Rule of Law Forum, a member of the International Advisory Board, Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) and a member of the Advisory Board of Best Lawyers®.  In addition to general corporate and transactional expertise, she has special experience in commercial dispute resolution and mediation and is a member of the Energy Community Dispute and Negotiation Centre Panel of Mediators in Vienna.  She has extensive experience in providing independent expert witness reports and testimony on the matters of Ukrainian law in international arbitrations and in the US, UK, the Netherlands, Cypriot and Swedish courts proceedings.She is included in the arbitrator panels of the Riga International Commercial Arbitration Court (RICAC) in Riga, the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) in Vienna, Georgian International Arbitration Centre (GIAC) in Tbilisi, Lewiatan Court of Arbitration in Warsaw, Caspian Arbitration Society in Geneva and Kazakhstani International Arbitrage (KIA) in Almaty.  She is included in the Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist: CIS and Caucasus.

Bojana Paneva is an attorney at law at the law office Veton Qoku in cooperation with Karanovic & Partners. With over a decade of legal expertise, her focus primarily lies in dispute resolution. Her extensive experience encompasses diverse facets of litigation and arbitration, with a particular emphasis on cases within the construction domain and infrastructure projects. Additionally, she is actively involved in M&A and provides counsel to clients across diverse sectors, including public-private partnerships, real estate, and public procurement.

Stuart Paterson is the Managing Partner of Herbert Smith Freehills Middle East, based in Dubai. He is an experienced dispute resolution specialist and heads the Middle East dispute resolution practice, offering expertise in litigation, arbitration and investigations. He specializes in financial services and energy sector disputes. In addition to his specialist areas of practice, he has substantial general commercial disputes experience, including shareholder and joint venture disputes, agency/distributorship disputes, professional negligence, employment and real estate matters. Mr. Paterson is a qualified solicitor advocate and has over 14 years of experience in the Middle East.

Pierre Pic is a member of the Paris Bar and has been a practicing French court litigation and international arbitration attorney since 1996. He also is an associated professor (International Arbitration) at Paris X-Nanterre University. He has been in charge of the Paris Bar Committee on International Arbitration and, as such, co-authored a Report on Third Party Funding in International Arbitration, which led the Paris Bar Association to adopt a Resolution on the matter on 22 February 2017.

Paweł Pietkiewicz is the head of the Litigation and Arbitration department at Greenberg Traurig Warsaw. He advises domestic and international clients across a wide range of litigation and arbitration cases. He has extensive experience as an arbitrator in proceedings conducted on the basis of the rules of Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw, the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration, and the Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Mr. Pietkiewicz is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Polish Arbitration Committee, and the ICC Task Force on Decisions as to Costs. He was also the Chairman of the Appointing Committee of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration and is entered on the list of arbitrators of that court.

James Plotkin is a litigation and disputes lawyer with Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP based in Ottawa, Ontario. His practice focuses on international and domestic commercial arbitration, commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation and administrative law. James has argued before all levels of court (including the Supreme Court of Canada) and before various arbitral tribunals. He is certified as a Qualified Arbitrator (Q.Arb) by the ADR Institute of Canada and acts as arbitrator in commercial and intellectual property matters in both ad hoc and institutional settings. He also acts as counsel and adjudicator in domain name dispute resolution proceedings.  Mr. Plotkin has been published broadly on international and domestic commercial arbitration, copyright, trademarks, and domain name disputes. He co-authors a commentary on Ontario's arbitration legislation as well as a commentary on British Columbia's international arbitration legislation. Additionally, he has contributed commentary on copyright and related issues on television, radio, podcasts and various national and regional English and French print media.

Krzysztof Popławski is an associate in the IP and Commercial Litigation Department at Allen & Overy Warsaw. He advises on commercial law, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions and arbitration. As part of his practice, he has advised clients on transactions as well as court and arbitration disputes, in particular regarding mergers and acquisitions, real estate, construction and intellectual property. Prior to joining Allen & Overy he gained experience by working in the litigation department at Greenberg Traurig.

Ina C. Popova is a Partner in the International Dispute Resolution Group at Debevoise & Plimpton.  Dual-qualified in civil and common law, her practice focuses on international arbitration, international litigation and public international law.  Ms. Popova leads matters in English, Spanish and French and regularly handles complex disputes arising out of Latin America and Africa.  She sits as arbitrator and serves as counsel in a broad range of international matters and has particular experience in the energy, mining, and technology, media and telecommunications sectors.  Ms. Popova also holds a variety of leadership positions, including as a Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, a member of the Court of the Casablanca International Mediation and Arbitration Center (CIMAC), and Chair of the Corporate Counsel Task Force of the Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center (SVAMC). Ms. Popova speaks Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Bulgarian and is admitted to practice in New York and Paris.

Beáta Ramljaková is part of the litigation department at A & O Shearman’s Bratislava office, where she primarily handles international arbitration, administrative and commercial litigation as well as pro bono cases. She studied law at Comenius University in Bratislava and has participated in the Erasmus program at the University of Lisbon in Portugal with the main focus of her studies on European Law, Comparative Law, International Law, and Human Rights. In addition to litigation matters, she has experience with competition law, also supporting the Banking & Finance and Corporate teams on various transactions and advisory and regulatory matters.

C. Ryan Reetz is the office managing Partner of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s Miami, Florida office. He acts as counsel in a wide range of international and domestic disputes, as well as in investor-state disputes. He also serves as an arbitrator. Mr. Reetz is a board-certified specialist in international litigation and arbitration, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a former chair of the Florida Bar's International Law Section, the Miami International Arbitration Society, and the Florida Bar's Board Certification Committee for International Litigation and Arbitration.  He has taught international dispute resolution courses as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law (2014-present) and the University of Miami School of Law (2003-2010). He also serves as a visiting professor at the University of Navarra School of Law and was a 2015 Scholar-in-Residence at NYU School of Law. His publications include Public Purpose in International Law: Rethinking Regulatory Sovereignty in the Global Era, published by Cambridge University Press (co-authored with Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga).

Kenneth B. Reisenfeld   is the global leader of BakerHostetler’s Investor-State Arbitration team. A Chambers and Legal 500-ranked lawyer and Judge Learned Hand Award recipient (2023), he is among the world’s leading advocates and arbitrators in cross-border contract, commercial, licensing and investment treaty disputes. Over the past 40 years, Mr. Reisenfeld has successfully represented global companies or sovereign-controlled entities before the most prominent international and regional arbitration centers around the world (e.g., ICSID, LCIA, ICC, ICDR, CPR, DIS, HKIAC, SIAC, QICCA, NAI) and in significant ad hoc tribunals (e.g., UNCITRAL and PCA), including in investor-state and state-to-state arbitrations. He also regularly serves as an advocate or an arbitrator in complex commercial disputes with an emphasis on technology, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, IP licensing, M&A, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, international distribution and construction/infrastructure disputes. A former Chair of the ABA International Law Section and Councilor of the IBA, Mr. Reisenfeld has participated in the development of practice standards for the international arbitration bar, including the ABA/AAA Code of Ethics for Arbitrators, the IBA International Principles on Conduct for the Legal Profession, IBA Guidelines on Party Representation in International Arbitration and the CPR Rules for Administered Arbitration of International Disputes (2019) and Fast Track Rules (2020).   

Catherine Rodgers is a Professor of Law at Bocconi University, and an Affiliated Research Professor at the University of California, College of Law at San Francisco. Her scholarship focuses on ethics in international arbitration and the intersection of markets and regulation in guiding professional conduct. Among other appointments, Ms. Rogers is a Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration, a co-chair of the ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force on Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration, and a member of the task force that drafted the IBA Guidelines for Party Representatives in International Arbitration. She teaches and lectures around the world and regularly engages in international arbitration-related capacity-building.

Guillermo Ruiz Medrano advises investment funds, banks and other financing entities on national and cross-border restructuring transactions and refinancing, as well as on insolvency and pre-insolvency matters. He has also participated in other financing transactions, including bridge and distressed financing options, and direct lending. He also has expertise in litigation funding, regularly advising on the enforcement of financing agreements and guarantees subject to Spanish law, as well as in pre-litigation matters. He has worked at the firm’s offices in New York, London, Madrid and Barcelona. He is the author and co-author of several law review articles and national and international publications covering restructuring, insolvency and the enforcement of financing agreements. He lectures at several universities and business schools, including ESADE, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and ISDE Law Business School. He is a member of both the Madrid Bar Association and the New York Bar Association.

Victoria Shannon Sahani is the Associate Provost for Community and Inclusion at Boston University and a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. She is an internationally recognized legal scholar in arbitration law and third-party litigation funding law and an award-winning teacher. She has 15 years of experience in international arbitration and more than a decade of expertise in third-party funding. She also serves as an independent arbitrator, consultant, and expert witness. She is the Chair of the Academic Council for the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), a Counsellor of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), an Elected Member of the American Law Institute (ALI), an American Bar Foundation (ABF) Fellow, and Secretary of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on International Law.  Before teaching law, Professor Sahani served as Deputy Director of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in North America for the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) International Court of Arbitration and Deputy Director of the Arbitration and ADR Committee of the US Council for International Business (USCIB). Before joining the ICC and USCIB, she practiced law.  Professor Sahani received her law degree from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree in psychology from Harvard College. She remains an active member of the bar in New York and the District of Columbia.

Simel Sarıalioğlu is a Partner at Paksoy’s dispute resolution team, specializing in commercial arbitration, arbitration-related court proceedings and commercial litigation. She sits as an arbitrator; and has represented clients as counsel in various arbitrations under the ICC, ICSID, ISTAC, LCIA, SMA, VIAC Rules as well as in ad hoc arbitrations and complex commercial litigation proceedings. Ms. Sarıalioğlu is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (FCIArb). She regularly gives lectures on international arbitration as a visiting speaker at the law faculties of various universities in Istanbul. She acted as the ICC YAAF Turkey, Middle East & Africa Chapter Representative for the 2017-2019 mandate. She is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration & ADR, representing Türkiye and was a member of the Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center (SVAMC) YP Steering Committee for the 2021-2023 mandate.

Lawrence Schaner is an independent arbitrator with over three decades of experience in the resolution of cross-border and domestic business disputes. He is ranked in Band 1 for international arbitrators by Chambers USA and among the world’s “Most in Demand Arbitrators” by Chambers Global. His experience includes administered and ad hoc cases under many rules, including the AAA, CPR, ICC, ICDR, JAMS, KCAB, LCIA, SCC, SIAC and UNCITRAL. He is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration. He has taught a seminar on international arbitration as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law since 2010. Until April 2017, he was a partner at Jenner & Block, in Chicago, where he co-founded and co-chaired the firm’s international arbitration practice. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School (JD) and Duke University (BA). He is a member of the bars of the States of California, Illinois, and New York.

Anthony Sebok is Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. Mr. Sebok has written extensively on litigation finance and legal ethics in the United States, as well as on comparative private law. His textbook on third-party litigation finance, the first in the United States market, was published by Aspen in 2024.  He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Frances Sim WS is the general counsel for Restitution Ltd., a specialist provider of commercial litigation and dispute resolution funding, and is a member of the Society of Writers to HM Signet.

Chen Siyuan (LLB, Harvard) is an Associate Professor of Law at Singapore Management University. Previously a Justices’ Law Clerk and Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court of Singapore, his research and teaching interests lie broadly in procedural and evidence law. His works have been cited by the Singapore International Commercial Court, Singapore Court of Appeal, Indian Supreme Court, and UK Law Commission. His works include books such as The Law of Evidence in Singapore and articles in journals such as Civil Justice Quarterly and The International Journal of Evidence & Proof. Since 2010 he has directed the university’s international moots programme, with his teams reaching multiple championship finals of major competitions including the Jessup and Vis.

Mick Smith is a Principal with responsibility for leading Burford Captital’s investment activity and operations in Europe, focusing on companies, funds, investors and law firms engaged in ommercial litigation and arbitration. He co-founded Calunius Capital. Mr. Smith previously practiced law at Freshfields in both London and Madrid and then worked as an investment banker at JPMorgan Chase, Credit Agricole Lazard, and Dresdner Kleinwort.

Ben Steinbrück is a Partner at Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz in Frankfurt am Main and Mannheim, Germany. He acts for parties in complex disputes in domestic and international arbitration proceedings and before state courts and sits as an arbitrator (chairman, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator). Prof. Dr. Steinbrück has particular experience in DIS, ICC, VIAC and ad hoc arbitration in commercial disputes and focuses on post-M&A, shareholder and other corporate disputes. He also advises clients on issues of conflicts of laws and civil procedure. He is an honorary professor at the University of Trier, Germany, where he teaches courses on international arbitration and international commercial law. Prof. Dr. Steinbrück has authored numerous publications on international arbitration, litigation, conflicts of laws and corporate law.

Thomas Stouten specializes in international arbitration under the auspices of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIAC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, UNUM, and NAI and also court litigation, including post-arbitration litigation (both in the Netherlands and on the Dutch Carribbean). He has extensive experience in complex disputes, often with multi-jurisdictional aspects, covering a broad range of issues arising from both commercial and corporate transactions. Because of his international law practice, he also worked in both the New York and London offices of Houthoff from where he coordinated multi-jurisdictional disputes. Mr. Stouten is a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris. He is also a member of the ICC Task Force on Addressing Issues of Corruption in International Arbitration. He is an officer of the IBA Arbitration Committee in which he is a Co-chair of the Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Subcommittee. He also sits as an arbitrator. He gives lectures regarding arbitration and frequently speaks at arbitration conferences.

Christel Y. Tham is a senior associate in the International Dispute Resolution Group at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.  Her practice focuses on public international law, international arbitration, and international litigation. Ms. Tham has represented clients in international commercial and investment arbitrations administered by major arbitral institutions, including the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, in addition to ad hoc arbitrations governed by the UNCITRAL Rules.  Ms. Tham first joined Debevoise in 2014. From 2018 to 2021, she was Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.  Ms. Tham serves as a rapporteur to the ICCA Panel of Experts to Develop a Paris Agreement Conciliation Annex as well as the ICCA-ASIL Task Force on Damages in International Arbitration and participated in the UNCITRAL Working Group III sessions on ISDS reform. Ms. Tham is a member of the Bar of New York. She is fluent in Mandarin and conversational in French.

Sherlin Hsie-lien Tung is a Partner in the international arbitration and litigation team at Withers, based in Hong Kong. She is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and English, has working proficiency in Spanish, and has basic German skills (A2). She is a specialist in cross-border corporate and commercial disputes with a particular focus on international commercial arbitration, international contracts, international trade law (notably the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods “CISG”), and multi-jurisdiction disputes (inclusive of litigations, negotiations, and mediations). She acts as counsel, sits as an arbitrator, and has also acted as an expert on international arbitration procedures. Ms. Tung has advised clients worldwide from the APAC region to the Americas (North and South), and Europe, on all phases and aspects of international arbitration and cross-border litigations disputes. Prior to joining Withers, she worked with a leading international law firm in its Hong Kong office where she was a member of the international disputes practice group. She started her international disputes career in Switzerland with leading independent arbitrator, Dr. Pierre A. Karrer. Thereafter, she worked for the ICC International Court of Arbitration (in Hong Kong and New York). She also worked in-house with Semperit AG Holding, a publicly listed international conglomerate. Ms. Tung is ranked in Chambers, Benchmark Litigation, and Who's Who legal, and regularly speaks and lectures worldwide on international arbitration. She is a Registered Foreign Lawyer in Hong Kong and qualified as an attorney-at-law in New York and California.

Olivier van der Haegen is Partner at Loyens & Loeff’s Brussels office where he co-heads the Litigation & Risk Management practice group. Mr. van der Haegen is an expert in international commercial arbitration and Litigation. He regularly acts as counsel in international commercial arbitration proceedings, either ad hoc or under various institutional rules (mostly ICC, LCIA and Cepani). He also assists clients in court proceedings relating to setting aside, recognition and enforcement of international arbitral awards or foreign judgments (including in investment treaty cases and against Sovereigns). He has been appointed as sole arbitrator and party-appointed co-arbitrator- under the ICC Rules and the Cepani Rules.  Aside from his extensive arbitration practice, he also handles litigations (including white-collar crime defence) before Belgian courts mostly in the real estate, aviation, construction, energy and media industries. He is recognized as a “Global Leader” in arbitration by Who’s Who Legal Arbitration and is ranked in the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 legal directories.

Milica Volarev is an attorney in cooperation with Karanović & Partners specializing in dispute resolution, with a focus on arbitration. She has broad experience in representing clients in both commercial and investment arbitration, as well as in proceedings for annulment of ICSID awards. Her area of expertise covers various commercial, construction, IP, and other disputes. For over six years of her professional experience, she advised and represented clients in arbitration proceedings held before the ICC, SCC, VIAC, Swiss Arbitration Centre, PCA, ICSID and Permanent Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia and others. Ms. Volarev also acted as secretary to arbitral tribunals in multiple arbitral proceedings before the ICC and Permanent Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia. In addition, she regularly represents clients in complex, high-value commercial litigation cases before the courts in Serbia and the region.

Wolf H. von Bernuth, Dr., is a Partner in Hausfeld's Berlin office, specializes in national and international litigation and arbitration. His litigation experience includes banking, financial and capital markets disputes, model proceedings under KapMuG, corporate and post-M&A disputes, joint venture disputes, directors' and officers' liability as well as disputes arising from complex contracts, e.g., in the automotive and energy industries. He was an expert for the legal committee of the German Bundestag during the KapMuG reform in 2012 and is a lecturer in the Master's programme International Dispute Resolution at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has many years of experience in arbitration proceedings under ad hoc rules and various procedural rules (including ICC, DIS) and also acts as an arbitrator.

Simon Vorburger is a Partner based in Quinn Emanuel’s Zurich office. Mr. Vorburger’s practice focuses on both international commercial and investment treaty arbitration. He also represents parties in domestic and international litigation and advises clients in cross-border, multi-jurisdictional disputes as well as in pre-litigation strategy. Moreover, he sits as an arbitrator. He is admitted to practice in both Switzerland and the United States and holds a law degree and Ph.D. from Zurich University Law School and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law. He was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and a Visiting Scholar at the Columbia University Law School Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, where he also contributed to the drafting of the American Law Institute’s U.S. Restatement on International Commercial Arbitration. He is a lecturer at Zurich University Law School and regularly publishes and speaks on topics related to arbitration.

Robert Wachter FCIArb is Co-head of the International Arbitration & Cross-Border Litigation Group at Lee & Ko in Seoul, Korea.  He practices international arbitration exclusively and has acted as counsel or arbitrator in cases brought under all of the major arbitration rules, including the ICC, KCAB, VIAC, Swiss Chambers, SIAC, LCIA, SCC, JCAA and UNCITRAL rules.  Mr. Wachter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is on the panel or list of arbitrators at KCAB, SIAC, VIAC and HKIAC. He is a member of KCAB International’s International Arbitration Committee. He is the current Chair Elect of the Lex Mundi LADR practice group. He is one of the co-founders of KCAB Next. He has lectured as an adjunct professor at Seoul National University School of Law, the Supreme Court of Korea (Judicial Research and Training Institute), and Ewha Womans University. He also regularly participates in conferences and seminars on international arbitration. He has published various academic articles about international arbitration and Korean law. Mr. Wachter has been recognized as a leading practitioner in the field of international arbitration by Chambers and Partners (Band 1), Legal 500, Asialaw, Benchmark Litigation, Asia Business Law Journal, Who’s Who Legal (Arbitration), and Who’s Who Thought Leaders (Arbitration).

Mohamed Abdel Wahab is a Professor of Dispute Resolution, Private International Law and English Contract Law at Cairo University; Founding Partner and Head of International Arbitration, Construction and Energy Groups at Zulficar&Partners Law Firm (Egypt); among many other distinguished positions. He  has served as Arbitrator, Legal Expert and Counsel in more than 255 cases, involving parties from the Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. He received the LAW Magazine 2017 Best Legal Practitioner Award and the 2022 Most Influential Legal Academic Award, the 2018 ASA International Arbitration Advocacy Prize, the 2019 AYA Hall-of-Fame African Arbitrator Award, the 2020 Client Choice International Award. He is listed in Who’s Who Global Elite Thought Leaders: International Arbitration (2021, 2022 and 2023); selected among the Legal500 Africa Powerlist (2021) and the AYA’s Africa's Top 30 Powerlist (2021).  He is the coeditor (with Prof Maxi Scherer and Ms. Niuscha Bassiri) of “International Arbitration and the COVID-19 Revolution” (2020); co-editor (with Prof Ethan Katsh and Mr. Daniel Rainey) of the leading treatise “Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice” (2012 & 2021); and is the author of the Abdel Wahab Pandemic Pathway to Virtual/Remote Hearings.

Simon Weber is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Zurich office. Dr. Weber’s practice focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes as well as commercial and investment arbitration. His areas of specialisation include disputes regarding energy and infrastructure projects, long-term delivery and sales contracts, disputes involving the financial industry, investment disputes, and trust law. In addition to performing counsel work, he also acts as tribunal secretary. Dr. Weber regularly represents UHNWIs. He is a member of the International Arbitration Group and has experience in arbitrations under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, PCA, and LCIA Rules, and has also been involved in ECT arbitrations. Trained as a German and French lawyer, he is an admitted solicitor of England & Wales and registered in Switzerland (Art. 28 Lawyers Act). He holds a Doctorate (Ph.D.) from King’s College London.

Sun Wei is a Partner at Zhong Lun Law Firm. He is qualified to practice law in PRC and New York State. He has extensive experience in international dispute resolution relating to construction and infrastructure, energy, finance, corporate equity, and real estate. For his profound professional expertise and prominent advocating performance, Mr. Wei was listed as a Who’s Who Legal 2023 Arbitration “Global Leader,” 2022 Arbitration “National Leader” and 2021 Arbitration “Future Leader”; awarded “2020 ALB China Top 15 Chinese Litigators” by Asian Legal Business; awarded “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation for the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023; and has been recommended by Chambers Global and the Legal 500 since 2020. Mr. Wei was nominated by GAR for “Best Development of 2019” for his role as the first emergency arbitrator in the Chinese Mainland.

Thomas Yates is a foreign legal consultant (English law) authorized by the Law Society of Ontario and an English-qualified solicitor-advocate. He works in Gowling WLG’s Ottawa office and is a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration practice groups. Mr. Yates has over 15 years’ experience in large-scale, high-value, multi-jurisdictional commercial dispute resolution, and is experienced in all forms of litigation and ADR, including mediation, adjudication and expert determination, with particular interest and expertise in domestic and international arbitration. He has written numerous articles and contributed to several textbooks on arbitration and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He also accepts appointments as an arbitrator. Prior to joining Gowling WLG, he worked in the London dispute resolution department at one of the world’s largest law firms, where he also spent time practicing in Sydney and Dubai as well as being seconded to a major US investment bank.

Stefan Zeyher is a Partner at Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz in Munich and Mannheim, Germany. He advises and represents companies, their management and supervisory bodies as well as shareholders and investors in contentious and non-contentious matters. Dr. Zeyher focuses on advising and representing his clients in contentious matters before state courts and arbitral tribunals, including DIS, ICC and ad hoc arbitrations, and acts as chairman and co-arbitrator. He also regularly advises clients on corporate governance issues, corporate transactions and a wide range of commercial matters. He is a lecturer at the University of Mannheim on “Introduction to German Private Law” and publishes on corporate and procedural law issues.

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:

"Third-party-funding in arbitration raises in each case a number of difficult questions. A first answer to nearly all of them and for many jurisdictions can be found in the Handbook on Third-Party Funding edited by Nikolaus Pitkowitz making it an indispensable part of the library of any serious arbitration practitioner."
 
---Prof. Dr. Stefan Kröll, LL.M., Independent Arbitrator/ Director of the Vis Moot and Director of the Center for International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law School 

"Third-Party Funding is a phenomenon whose interest for arbitration practitioners and academics continues to grow.  What the arbitration community needs is a clear, straightforward and highly readable analysis of the problems associated with the practice.  That is precisely what this new Handbook offers.  However, it goes further.  Generalities do not suffice, since practices and policies vary greatly across borders. The book's second part accordingly addresses closely the prevailing practices and policies regarding third-party funding in a series of commercially important jurisdictions.  The Handbook is bound to become at once an indispensable resource for those engaged in or touched by third-party funding."

---George A Bermann ,Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, and the Director for the Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration (CICIA) at Columbia Law School

An excellent contribution to the subject, which combines practical analysis for all key topics on TPF, and very useful reports from a wide range of jurisdictions. An indispensable Handbook on TPF.

 ---Stavros Brekoulakis, Professor in International Arbitration and Commercial Law 
Director of Research Centre for Commercial Law Studies Queen Mary University of London; Co-Chair of the ICCA/QMUL Working Group on Third-Party Funding