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Donny
Last Name
Surtani
Overview
Donny Surtani is a commercial arbitrator and mediator based in Toronto, Canada, and practising internationally with particular focus on North America, the United Kingdom, India and South East Asia. He is a dual-qualified barrister (England and Ontario), and has over 20 years of legal and business experience. He maintains his neutral practice through Crown Office Chambers in London. He was formerly a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, having spent 15 years in their London office. His legal practice focuses on complex commercial arbitration and litigation in the financial services, private equity, energy and telecommunications sectors, and has included an in-house secondment to a large conglomerate business based in Mumbai, India, with interests in energy, power, shipping and construction. Prior to his legal career, Donny was a Chartered Management Accountant and worked in the energy industry in finance and treasury. As such, his legal practice has often involved M&A and shareholder claims, banking disputes, accounting fraud issues and disputes with complex quantum or valuation aspects. Donny has experience of living and working in Canada, England, India and Sri Lanka, and is a graduate of the London School of Economics, and a solicitor-advocate and barrister in England & Wales. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a mediator accredited by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution in London, and a member of the ICC Canada arbitration committee. He serves on the ICC's Task Force on Arbitration and ADR, and is empanelled on the List of Arbitrators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, and the Mediation and Expedited Arbitration Panels of the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre.
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Birk
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Twell
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krishan
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kakkar
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Michael
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Masinde
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Sofie van
Last Name
Londen
Phone Number
31640563952
Overview

Sofie is legal specialist in commercial transactions particularly in the tech and hightech sectors. She advises data driven businesses, accelerators, social ventures, start-ups, scale-ups and mature business, joint research and exploitation projects.

After more than 30 years in large corporate law firms in the US, Australia and The Netherlands, she set up a niche practice in 2011 focussing on innovation solving climate change and data use issues and growing that practice engaging specialists on ad hoc basis. That keeps the practice nimble while matching the client’s needs with the best fitting team.

As for governance, Sofie advises and holds executive, non-executive/supervisory and advisory board positions. She chairs the Supervisory Board Directors members of the Dutch Association of Directors and Supervisory Board Directors in the greater Amsterdam region.

Sofie teaches IT law, negotiation skills, negotiates and mediates to foster peace in private and public space. She holds a leadership role in Rotary International Peace Building Programs. She is commitment to having safe and sound online presence possibilities, especially for the vulnerable and started the icaretoshare project (www.icaretoshare.org).

She spent time as a US attorney focusing on commercial transactions in New York City, with Paul Weiss, and later moved to Australia, where she specialised in commercial transactions in tech and became partner with HWL Ebsworth and later General Counsel of a listed telecommunications company. Sofie returned to The Netherlands in 2004 and returned to NautaDutilh, where she started in 1986.

Sofie grew up in The Hague and completed grammar school there. She studied and graduated law school with a masters in Leiden and went to New York City for an additional masters at Columbia Law School, on a full-tuition waiver based on her results in Leiden.

Sofie van Londen is registered in the Netherlands Bar’s Legal Practice Register as specialist corporate commercial law. She is thus required to obtain ten training credits from Netherlands Bar accredited courses per calendar year in that principal legal practice area. She is member of the NL Privacy Law Association.

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First Name
Leslie E.
Last Name
Maerov
Phone Number
+1-604-716-5244
Overview
Leslie E. Maerov is an independent commercial arbitrator in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and the University of Alberta, he is a barrister and solicitor in British Columbia, and a solicitor of England & Wales. He was in private practice in Vancouver for 22 years, initially as a commercial litigator and then as a corporate and commercial solicitor, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of the U.K. His practice is focused on being an independent neutral arbitrator in commercial disputes, both as sole arbitrator and as panel member, in domestic Canadian and international disputes. Between 2001 and 2014, Mr. Maerov was Chief Executive Officer and President of a public-listed telecom company. Between 2014-2018 he was Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel of the company, until the business was sold. As CEO he leveraged his commercial law expertise to develop and implement the company’s strategic growth plans, and was responsible for financing the company’s operations, mergers and acquisitions, all contractual negotiations and regulatory compliance. As CFO for several years, he was responsible for all financial reporting and public disclosure of management strategy and financial analysis. Mr. Maerov is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Qualified Arbitrator of ADR Institute of Canada, and maintains a dedicated continuing professional development interest. Mr. Maerov has been named to the rosters of ADRBC (ADR Institute of BC), the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, VanIAC (Vancouver International Arbitration Centre), ICDR (International Centre for Dispute Resolution), FINRA (U.S. Financial Industry Regulation Authority) and NFA (U.S. National Futures Association), and is the immediate past Chair and long time director of VanIAC. He has been a presenter at numerous arbitration symposia on topics ranging from institutional rules to arbitration ethics. Leslie Maerov has a reputation for fairness, respect for party autonomy while controlling the arbitration process to achieve a just, speedy, and economical determination of a dispute on its merits. Going beyond understanding the principles of contract remedies and calculation of damages, Mr. Maerov has a deep understanding of organizational principles, objectives of parties entering into contractual relationships and their motivations to resolve disputes quickly and cost-effectively, and brings that understanding to the dispute resolution process. He possesses the formal credentials of major domestic and international accrediting bodies and applies case driven procedural management.
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Experience
Experience in ad hoc and institutional domestic and international arbitrations as sole arbitrator and panelist, executive and director of public companies, corporate and commercial solicitor and commercial litigator
Education and Qualifications
LL.B.-Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada B.A. - University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Affiliations & Memberships
ICC Canada Arbitration Committee Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society ADR British Columbia Vancouver International Arbitration Centre FINRA - US Financial Industry Regulator
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George
Last Name
Bermann
First Name
Mitchell
Last Name
Lathrop
Experience
Mr. Lathrop has served as a mediator, sole arbitrator, party arbitrator or counsel in over 300 mediations and arbitrations in the United States and abroad over the past 45 years, including commercial, consumer and “representative cases” in mass arbitrations. Due to the confidential nature of mediations and arbitral proceedings, further information cannot be provided except as required by disclosure rules of the particular jurisdiction or by the mediation/arbitral provider in a specific proceeding; however, for Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) Publicly Available Awards for Cases Involving Public Customers in which he was a Panel member are available at https://www.finra.org/arbitration-mediation/arbitration-awards-online?aao_radios=all&field_case_id_text=&search=Mitchell%20Lee%20Lathrop&field_forum_tax=All&field_special_case_type_tax=All&field_core_official_dt%5Bmin%5D=2010-01-01&field_core_official_dt%5Bmax%5D=2021-01-01
Education and Qualifications
Admitted to practice law in the following jurisdictions and courts: California; New York; the District of Columbia; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, District of Columbia and Federal Circuits; U.S. Tax Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; U.S. Court of International Trade; U.S. Court of Federal Claims; U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Affairs; former Presiding Referee, California State Bar Court
Affiliations & Memberships
Martindale-Hubbell “A” rated in both California and New York; Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2006-present); Listed in Super Lawyers (2005-present); Lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, 2011-2014; Best Lawyers’ 2012 San Diego Insurance Law Lawyer of the Year; Certified Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy, 1982-2011; A.M. Best Recommended Insurance Expert; Member, Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society, U.S. (“ARIAS•US”); Member, Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage; Member, Association for International Arbitration (“AIA”); Member, International Council for Commercial Arbitration (“ICCA”); Member, Association for Conflict Resolution (“ACR”)
Publications / Papers
(1) “Mediating Reinsurance Insolvency Disputes,” American Bar Association Section of Business Law, June, 1996; (2) “Insolvency and Reinsurance: The Search for Assets and the Battle for the Funds,” New York State Bar Reinsurance Litigation and Arbitration Program, November, 1996; (3) “Trigger of Coverage and Allocation of Losses Between Reinsurers and Cedents,” Reinsurance Association of America, Environmental Conference, January, 1997; (4) “Insurance Implications of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards,” Zurich Reinsurance Centre, Inc., Conference on Emerging Issues in the Professional Liability Arena, January, 1997; (5) “Insurance Implications of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards,” 1 Jour. Ins. Coverage 30 (1998); (6)“The Changing Face of Expert Evidence,” 52 F.D.C.C. Quarterly 409 (2002); (7) “Interim Awards and Freezing Assets,” International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (January 2007); (8) “A Comparative Look at International Arbitral Rules and Statutes,” Center for International Legal Studies (February 2007); (9) “Subtle Differences: A Look at Some Widely Used Arbitral Rules,” International Institute for the Prevention and Resolution of Disputes (May 2007); (10) “Court-ordered Interim Measures in Aid of the Enforceability of Pending Foreign Arbitration,” Journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (July 2007); (11) “Widely Used Rules in International Arbitration,” International Dispute Resolution, Kluwer Law International, 2010; (12) “Responsive Pleadings and Arbitration,” Alternatives to Litigation, 2012; (13) “Jurisdiction Issues in International Arbitration,” 2 Global Bus. L. Rev. 29 (2011); (14) “Arbitrator Bias in the United States: A Patchwork of Deciusions,” 80 Defense Counsel Journal 146 (2013); (15) “Class Arbitration”, Insurance Counsel Journal (2018); (16) "Brokers' Dilemma", Insurance Journal (2019); (17) "The Arbitration Legacy of Sandra Day O'Connor," Vienna International Arbitration Center (2020), with Daniela Karollus-Bruner and Kevin F. Truxillo; (18) “Carve-outs and Injunctive Relief in Arbitration Cases,” Defense Counsel Journal (2021); (19) “Unconscionable Arbitration Provisions,” AAA Webinar (2022); Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims, LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 1992, currently in the 30th edition.
First Name
Nicholas
Last Name
Tam
Phone Number
+85298654165
Overview
Nicholas Tam has almost a decade's experience litigating and arbitrating complex commercial and financial cases across in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom. He is admitted to practise in Australia, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, and New Zealand, and currently devotes much of his time to offshore financial litigation before the courts of the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, including on appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. His areas of expertise span banking, insolvency and restructuring, shareholder disputes, trusts, and general commercial matters. He has a strong track record managing multi-jurisdictional teams to obtain judgments or awards and thereafter achieving their enforcement, including in 'difficult to enforce' jurisdictions such as Bangladesh and China. Nicholas has been instructed as arbitration counsel in multi-million-dollar cases in all the major international arbitration centres including Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, and Singapore. He also accepts appointments to act as arbitrator and is currently a panellist for the Centre for International Alternative Dispute Resolution, Thailand Arbitration Centre and the Pacific International Arbitration Centre.
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Legal Manager at Ogier, Hong Kong Associate at Ince & Co, Hong Kong Trainee Solicitor at Ince & Co, Hong Kong Paralegal at Ashurst, Melbourne Winter Associate at Latham & Watkins, Hong Kong Winter Associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Hong Kong Winter Clerk, Hogan Lovells, Hong Kong Summer Clerk, Norton Rose, Singapore Research Fellow, Office of US Sen. Mike Crapo, Washington D.C.
Education and Qualifications
BCom (Eco, Fin), The University of Melbourne LLB (Hons), The University of Melbourne PCLL, The University of Hong Kong GDLP, Australian National University MStIR, University of Cambridge (pending)
Affiliations & Memberships
Linda Fisher Bursary (2021) Winner, CIArb YMG Global Essay Competition (2020) Sir P.S. Woo Gold Medal in Law (2014) Jarvis & Kensington Prize for Trial Advocacy (2014) John Griffiths QC Prize in Advocacy (2014) National Champion, Sir Harry Gibbs Australian Constitutional Law Moot (2011) Champion, Melbourne Law School Senior Moot (2011) Winner, Melbourne Law School Paper & Oral Competition (2011) Deputy Dean's Mooting Bursary (2010, 2011) Dean's Foreign Legal Research Scholarship (2009) Vice-Chancellor's Congressional Scholarship (2009) Sir Douglas Little Memorial Scholarship (2003-2006)
Publications / Papers
Aircraft Finance: Regulation, Security and Enforcement (Sweet & Maxwell) Aircraft Liens and Detention Rights (Sweet & Maxwell) Atkin's Court Forms: Hong Kong (LexisNexis) 'Infrastructure Procurement After the Credit Crunch: A Guaranteed Future for PPPs in Australia?' [2012] 7(1) EPPPL 30 Lexis Practical Guidance HK: Carriage of Goods Lexis Practical Guidance HK: Cross-Border Trading

            

            

                        
            
            
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