Attend this webinar if you want to hear from leading experts about what is involved in an arbitration, when to use it, getting started, how to prepare and run an arbitration hearing and issues to consider in enforcing an arbitral decision.

Presenters

Bronwyn Lincoln, Partner, Thomson Geer
Bronwyn is a Partner in the Disputes team with extensive experience in commercial litigation and international arbitration.She also regularly advises on conflicts of laws, international treaty rights and obligations (including the CISG) and on the enforcement of foreign judgments and foreign arbitral awards in the Australian courts. Bronwyn’s practice covers a range of industry sectors, including international trade, insurance, building and construction, energy and resources, pharmaceuticals, technology and renewables. She has a particular interest in the resolution of joint venture and shareholder disputes and a specialist practice in cross border and multi-jurisdictional matters. Bronwyn has acted for national and international clients in high value disputes in most of the superior courts in Australia and has experience in the conduct of arbitration under the rules of many of the world’s leading arbitral institutions, including the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the International Chamber of Commerce, and under the UNCITAL Arbitration Rules. Bronwyn also sits as an international arbitrator, both as sole arbitrator and presiding arbitrator. Amongst other roles, she is a director of ACICA and the Australian Disputes Centre, vice-chair of the Federal Litigation and Dispute Resolution Exec of the LCA, a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and one of Australia’s four designated conciliators for ICSID (World Bank).


Dr Vicky Priskich, Barrister, Howell’s List
Vicky Priskich is a commercial barrister. She acts across a broad range of complex commercial disputes. Her work has been principally in general commercial law, equity, trusts, energy, banking and finance, commercial fraud, company law and director’s duties and insolvency. She has also published and lectured in these fields. Vicky is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and Convenor of the Victorian Chapter of CIArb. In 2001 Vicky completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Melbourne on the liability of companies, directors and lenders of an insolvent corporate group. She has lectured at the University of Melbourne in Corporate Banking and Finance and lectures in Trusts and Equity at Monash University.Vicky is a co-author with Professor James O’Donovan of the text “Lender Liability (Thomson Reuters, 2016).


Lucy Martinez, Independent Counsel and Arbitrator, Martinez Arbitration
Lucy has extensive experience advising and representing private and sovereign clients in international disputes relating to investment treaties and contracts, including in AAA, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL, and ad hoc arbitrations; reviewing draft dispute resolution clauses in contracts; sitting as arbitrator (sole, co- and presiding) in ACICA, HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, and SIAC disputes; and advising on various international pro bono projects. She is a Senior Lecturer (part-time) at TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia in international arbitration, contract law and public international law.


Edwina Kwan, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
Edwina is a Partner in our Sydney dispute resolution practice, specialising in China related cross-border disputes. She represents clients in all forms of dispute resolution including international arbitrations, mediations, intellectual property disputes and commercial litigation. Edwina has extensive expertise covering commercial strategy & negotiations and risk mitigation and advises clients on trade, shareholder, joint venture and IP disputes in the retail, e‑commerce, private equity, telecommunications, construction, energy & resources and international trade sectors.


Sam Luttrell, Partner, Clifford Chance
Dr Sam Luttrell is a Partner in the International Arbitration Group at Clifford Chance, based in Perth. His practice is focused dispute resolution in the natural resources sector. Sam is a professional advocate ranked Band 1 in Chambers Global and recognised in all legal industry guides. In addition to his case work, Sam publishes widely on dispute resolution and international law topics and teaches at universities and arbitral institutions across the Asia-Pacific.