Mr. Neil Kaplan

CBE QC SBS, President of the MARC Court

Mr. Neil Kaplan CBE QC SBS has been a full-time practising arbitrator since 1995.During this period he has been involved in several hundred arbitrations as coarbitrator,sole arbitrator or chairman. These arbitrations have included a wide rangeof commercial, infrastructure and investment disputes. Called to the Bar of Englandand Wales in 1965, Mr. Kaplan has practiced as a barrister, Principal Crown Counsel at the Hong Kong Attorney General’s Chambers, and served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in charge of the Construction and Arbitration List.
From 1991 to 2004, he was Chairman of the HKIAC, and in 1999 - 2000, he was President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Since 1995, he has been a Council Member and now Governing Board Member of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration. Between 2012 and 2016 Mr. Kaplan was also a Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He is a panelist of several other arbitral institutions including CIETAC. Since 2017 he has been the President of the Court of the Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry Arbitration and Mediation Centre (MARC).

Ms. Aisha Abdallah

Member of the MARC Advisory Board and Head of the Litigation Department at Anjarwalla & Khanna

Aisha Abdallah is the Head of the Litigation Department at Anjarwalla & Khanna and is based at the head office in Nairobi. She is dual qualified in Kenya and England and Wales and has over 16 years of experience in dispute resolution. Aisha’s practice focuses on domestic and international arbitration, commercial litigation, anti corruption, insolvency and disputes over land, the environment and natural resources. Much of her work involves cross border disputes. Aisha regularly writes and speaks on a wide range of contentious issues, including arbitration and anti-corruption. She is the co-author of the Kenyan chapter of the 6th, 7th and 8th editions of the International Arbitration Review

Ms. Sarah Grimmer

Chair of the MARC Advisory Board and Secretary-General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC)

Sarah Grimmer is Secretary-General of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. She was formerly Senior Legal Counsel at the PCA where she served as tribunal secretary in multiple investor-State arbitrations and was appointed registrar in several inter-State arbitrations. Prior to joining the PCA, Sarah served for three years as Assistant Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris. She was also a member of the international arbitration group at Shearman & Sterling LLP in Paris, prior to which she worked in private practice in Auckland. In 2015, Sarah was appointed to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Disciplinary Board. She is a member of the ICCA-ASIL Task Force on Damages (2016), ICCA Publications Committee (2015), the IBA Investment Arbitration Subcommittee (2014), New Zealand ICC Arbitration Committee (2014), and the IBA Arb40 Steering Committee (2013). She has an LLM from Cambridge University and an LLB/BA (Criminology) from Victoria University of Wellington. She is admitted to practice law in New Zealand.

Sami Houerbi

ICC Director for the Mediterranean, Middle East & Africa Partner, Houerbi law Firm, Abu Dhabi/ Tunis

Sami Houerbi is the Director of the ICC Eastern Mediterranean, Middle-East and Africa ICC Dispute Resolution Services, where he is in charge of raising awareness about Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms throughout the region and promoting ICC Arbitration and ADR Rules.
Prior to that, he was member of the Secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration in Paris, where he was directly involved in the administration and managing ICC arbitration proceedings.
Mr Houerbi is a registered lawyer of the Tunis Bar Association and the Managing Partner of Houerbi Law firm, which areas of practice include mainly: Corporate Law, Arbitration and Litigation.
Sami Houerbi acts regularly as arbitrator under ad hoc and various international arbitration institutions.
He holds a post-graduate degree in international law from the University of Paris II and an LL.M in German Law from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.
His working languages are Arabic, English, French and German.

Ms. Cheng-Yee Khong

Member of the MARC Court and Associate Investment Manager at IMF Bentham, Hong Kong

Cheng-Yee specialises in international arbitration, having represented parties in international arbitrations at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris and administered over 800 arbitrations as director and counsel of the ICC International Court of Arbitration Secretariat in Hong Kong. She is qualified to practise in England and Wales as well as Malaysia. Her career to date spans London, Paris, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong.
Cheng-Yee recently joined IMF Bentham, an arbitration and litigation funder with offices worldwide. She is based in Hong Kong.

Mr. Roger Wakefield

Member of the MARC Court and Director in Werksmans Attorneys Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department, South Africa

Roger Wakefield has been a director in Werksmans Attorneys Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department since 1996. Roger specialises in major commercial litigation with a focus on health, pharmaceutical & life sciences and technology. He has in depth expertise in cross-border disputes, enforcements of foreign judgments, private international law and commercial litigation in the United States. He is also skilled in arbitration, mediation and alternative dispute resolution; IT litigation; administrative law; intellectual property law, trade marks & copyright law; healthcare and health funding; mining law; and corporate fraud. Roger has been involved in a number of foreign judgment cases that are now leading authorities in South African law. He is named as a leading commercial litigator in The International Who's Who of Commercial Litigators and in Best Lawyers.

Dr. Nicolas Wiegand

Managing Partner, CMS Hong Kong LLP

Nicolas Wiegand, Managing Partner at CMS Hong Kong, is specialised in commercial, construction and investment arbitration. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in over a 100 large-scale disputes under all major institutional rules and in ad hoc disputes. He has also advised on and participated in a number of disputes involving states and state-owned enterprises, in particular in Asia and in South East Europe. Nicolas is, inter alia, recognized as one of the "Best Lawyers" for 'Arbitration/Mediation' (in the international publication "Best Lawyers"), and features in "Who's Who Legal in Arbitration". He is an author and frequent speaker on international arbitration matters and on the panel of arbitrators of the most important arbitral institutions.

Dr. Jalal El Ahdab

Dr. Jalal El Ahdab, based in Paris and partner with GMPV, specializes in international arbitration and advises on foreign investments. Member of the MARC Advisory Board, he has been practicing for 20 years in various fields (investments, commodities, corporate and complex contractual disputes) and industries (construction, bank, ports, retails, sports). He is well acquainted with various international arbitration rules (ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, CAS/TAS, DIAC, VIAC…) and works both as counsel and arbitrator. He is a member of the ICC Court, Lebanon’s Representative at UNCITRAL, Chair of the CIArb’s Paris Chapter, and has authored numerous articles and books on ADR’s. Jil is qualified to practice in Beirut, Paris and New York

Dr. Jamsheed Peeroo

Dr. Jamsheed Peeroo is a dual-qualified barrister (UK & Mauritius) and holds a PhD in international arbitration law from the Sorbonne. He has worked on many arbitrations at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris, at 3VB in London and at Peeroo Chambers in Mauritius. He has taught arbitration law and was closely involved in preparing draft procedural rules governing arbitration-related claims before Mauritian Courts. He currently splits his time between London and Mauritius.

Neeti Sachdeva

Prior to joining MCIA, Neeti has extensively worked in the field of International Commercial Arbitration, both as a private practitioner representing clients and as an administrator, facilitating the dispute resolution procedure. Neeti’s past professional experience includes working with some of the top Indian Law Firms like Trilegal and Economic Laws Practice. She has also worked at the International Arbitration Department of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Paris Office, besides being judicial clerk for Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Muralidhar of Delhi High Court.
Neeti has also worked with LCIA India as its First Deputy Registrar. She is also active in the academic circle and is an academic advisor at KIIT Law School, Orissa. Neeti is also a guest faculty at National Law University and at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi. She was the Asia Pacific & Australasia Representative of YIAG, LCIA and a member of the steering committee of the Young ICCA Asia Pacific Desk. Ms Sachdeva has obtained a Masters in International Commercial Arbitration from Stockholm University, and has also undertaken a course in Private International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague. She is regularly invited as a speaker at various conferences and conducts workshops in the field of arbitration. She also acts as arbitrator in commercial matters.

Dr. Nicolas Wiegand

Managing Partner, CMS Hong Kong LLP

Nicolas Wiegand, Managing Partner at CMS Hong Kong, is specialised in commercial, construction and investment arbitration. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in over a 100 large-scale disputes under all major institutional rules and in ad hoc disputes. He has also advised on and participated in a number of disputes involving states and state-owned enterprises, in particular in Asia and in South East Europe. Nicolas is, inter alia, recognized as one of the "Best Lawyers" for 'Arbitration/Mediation' (in the international publication "Best Lawyers"), and features in "Who's Who Legal in Arbitration". He is an author and frequent speaker on international arbitration matters and on the panel of arbitrators of the most important arbitral institutions.

Dr.Rajesh Sharma

Senior Lecturer, Justice and Legal Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Rajesh Sharma is currently teaching at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Before that he was Assistant Professor at School of Law, City University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Sharma has taught courses on arbitration, mediation, negotiation, foreign investment arbitration, WTO Law, international trade, banking law, foreign investment in Hong Kong, Macao, India, Australia, China and Africa (where he is associated with the Institute for Legal Excellence in Uganda). He has served as the Legal Advisor to the Macau University of Science and Technology. He has advised transnational companies on trade and investment policy in China and has done training courses with and for the WTO and UNITAR.

Ms Anne-Sophie Jullienne

Barrister, Afralaw Chambers

Anne-Sophie is a practising barrister at the English and Mauritius Bar and a non-practising barrister at the Paris Bar. She has 15 years’ experience in international arbitration having worked in this field as an associate in London for 9 years as part of the Dispute Resolution Department of American law firms Skadden Arps and Weil Gotshal and thereafter in Mauritius as a self-employed practitioner.
Anne-Sophie is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator and sits on the Management Committee of its Mauritius Branch. She has been actively involved in the promotion of international arbitration in Mauritius and of Mauritius as an international arbitration centre abroad, speaking at numerous conferences and having had various committee roles within arbitration institutions (ICC YAF, CIArb and the LCIA-MIAC). Anne-Sophie has acted as Counsel in ad hoc as well as institutional international arbitrations (PCA, ICC, LCIA, FOSFA and MARC) relating to disputes governed principally by English, French or Mauritian law and has acted in or advised on several investment treaty arbitrations involving African States )ICSID, UNCITRAL, SADC Investment Protocol). Anne-Sophie teaches international arbitration at the University of Mauritius as part of Panthéon Assas’ LLM in International Business Law in Mauritius and is a former lecturer on the subject at the University of Mauritius.

MR. ANAND JUDDOO

, Chartered Arbitrator & Chairman of CIArb Mauritius Branch

Anand is a Chartered Arbitrator, a Professional Quantity Surveyor (local regulating council), a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and a Registered Adjudicator with over 30+ years of professional experience in Arbitration, Quantity Surveying, Claims & Dispute Management, Project & Programme Management in UK, Mauritius, Dubai, Malaysia, India, Congo, Cameroon and Gabon. He has also a good legal background and holds a Master’s degree in Law as well as a Bachelor in Law.
Anand has extensive knowledge in Construction & Engineering Law and has drawn up many claims for extension of time (including defence thereof), loss and expense as well as negotiated settlement on both sides of the industry on various forms of contract.
Anand is well versed in the Mauritian Napoleon Code, French Construction Law and English Construction Law. He works confidently in an English / French speaking contractual environments.

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