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2 May 2012
Jonathan Taylor and Liz Riley from the London Sports Group successfully represented the World Anti-Doping Agency in a high profile arbitration before CAS in the British Olympic Association bye-law case concerning the validity of the BOA’s bye-law rendering certain athletes previously convicted of a doping violation ‘ineligible for selection’ for the Olympic Games, the central issue being the compatibility of the bye-law with the overarching World Anti-Doping Code (Code). |
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20 April 2012
Annet van Hooft has co-authored an Introductory Users guide to Arbitrating Under the 2012 ICC Rules which is due to be published by Kluwer Law in May 2012. More details to follow. |
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7 April 2012
Richard Keady will shortly be joining the firm as a partner in our Hong Kong team from Clyde & Co. Richard is highly experienced in dispute resolution including arbitration and regulatory matters. He will work alongside Catherine Mun, another of our recent recruits, to build our international dispute resolution practice in the China region. |
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7 March 2012
We continue to strengthen our capability in Asia with the arrival last week of partner Catherine Mun in our Dispute Resolution team in Hong Kong.
Catherine has extensive experience advising on complex domestic and international commercial, construction and engineering disputes and arbitrations, and related advisory work. As one of the few Hong-Kong-based lawyers with China-related international arbitration experience, Catherine has particularly focused on arbitration proceedings on behalf of major international corporations based in Europe, the US and the wider Asian region. |
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1 March 2012
Senior Associate Bartłomiej Niewczas joined our office in Warsaw to head up our Polish Dispute Resolution team. Bartłomiej has significant experience in handling large disputes and arbitrations for corporate clients with particular expertise in un-fair competition acts, cross-border insolvency, construction disputes, intellectual property and securities. He joins from Skanska Poland SA where he was head of the litigation team. |
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10 January 2012
We are delighted to announce the arrival of partner Steven Baker who joins the team in London this week. Steven will play a key role in developing Bird & Bird's International Dispute Resolution Practice Group and in strengthening our reputation for providing clients with market-leading expertise in both transactional and contentious matters across core industry sectors, in all of our jurisdictions.
Renowned for his success in large, complex disputes and arbitrations within the technology, communications, financial services and energy sectors, Steven joins us from Olswang, where as head of commercial disputes, he was responsible for the growth of a highly-regarded team and for helping drive their expansion in Asia. |
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5 January 2012
Richard Eordogh has taken on the role of managing and developing our Budapest office, now registered locally as Eördögh Bird & Bird.
Richard has over 18 years experience of international corporate, transactional and commercial work, including related financial, real estate and arbitration matters. His management skills, combined with a deep knowledge of the local and regional market and ability to place this within an international context, make him well placed to build develop the Hungarian team while supporting the global Bird & Bird network. |
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1 January 2012
A Singapore team led by Susan de Silva (Employment), with support from Boey Swee Siang (Dispute Resolution), Denning Tan, Jonathan Kao (both Corporate) and, on competition law, Sandra Seah and Morten Nissen (Belgium), has successfully advised an international aviation group client in two cases before the Industrial Arbitration Court (IAC). In the first case, the three-member panel led by IAC president, Justice Chan Seng Onn, ruled in favour of our client, stating that the case presented by the other side was “flawed in principle”. |
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1 December 2011
An Arbitration team in Helsinki has won a long-awaited successful verdict for a market leading chemical producer in Finland, in a proceeding against one of Finland's largest insurance companies. The dispute related to a significant insurance compensation payment following a halt in production at the plant.
The Bird & Bird team was led by partner Tom Vapaavuori together with senior associate Jarno Sulasalmi and the arbitration panel consisted of three high profile members. The verdict was reached in mid-November, following proceedings lasting almost two years. |
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23 September 2011
The Global Arbitration Review has covered Manuel Conthe's appointment to the arbitral tribunal which will hear an expropriation claim by UK power company Rurelec against Bolivia. |
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5 September 2011
Annet van Hooft joined Bird & Bird as “Senior European Counsel” to develop its international arbitration practice both in Paris and internationally.
Annet specializes in international commercial arbitration. She represents clients in arbitrations under the rules of various international arbitral institutions, including the International Court of Arbitration (ICC), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). She also acts as counsel in ad hoc proceedings. She is experienced in several different legal systems and a wide variety of sectors, such as energy, pharmaceuticals, distribution and licensing, and mergers and acquisitions.
Annet regularly sits as arbitrator in international disputes. |
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20 January 2011
Sarah Walker and Peter Brownlow spoke and Trevor Cook moderated at the conference "Dispute Prevention and Resolution in the Film and Media Industry", held on Thursday 20 January 2011 at Bird & Bird's. The event is sponsored by Bird & Bird and organized by the London Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Centre. Click here to view more. |
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1 January 2010
In Germany, the International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS) has reappointed Düsseldorf Senior European Consultant Martin Schimke as a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) until 2014. The CAS has 270 arbitrators, from 87 countries - chosen for their specialist knowledge of arbitration and sports law. Martin has been on the list of CAS arbitrators since 1999 and during this time has been involved as either Chairman or Co-Arbitrator in almost 70 cases from all fields of individual and team sport. |
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19 November 2010
Jane Player and Naresh Mahtani of ATMD Bird & Bird LLP Singapore, were invited by Crawford Bayley & Co to talk to a selected invited audience of leading Indian companies on Arbitration Rules in Mumbai. They invited Ajay Thomas, Registrar of LCIA India, to share their platform. Jane Player, Naresh Mahtani and Ajay Thomas dedicated a joint session to (i) the difference between arbitration, litigation and mediation, (ii) new ADR methods and (iii) the choice of substantive law, procedural law and seat of arbitration. They also carried out a comparative analysis of the ICC, LCIA and SIAC Arbitration Rules as well as a presentation of the LCIA-India Arbitration Rules entered in force in April 2010. The very successful event took place on 19 November 2010. |
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16 November 2010
Sarah Walker spoke by invitation as part of the Programme for the HKIAC/AICC/CIArb conference programme celebrating the 25th Anniversary of HKIAC in Hong Kong on 16 November 2010. |
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10 March 2010
Sarah Walker was asked to moderate a panel session at the LCIA European Users' Council Symposium held at The Grove. 135 delegates enjoyed the quality of the debate at the two day symposium. |
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18 March 2010
Bird & Bird hosted an Arbitration Club (Finance Branch) Luncheon. Sarah Walker and John Wright introduced two topics upon which the attendees shared their views and experience: CFAs in International Arbitration and the Jackson Report on CFAs. Other members of the Bird & Bird Arbitration Group attended. |
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4 March 2010
Claire Morel de Westgaver represented Bird & Bird at the annual Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG) Symposium held in London on 4 March 2010. |
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1 February 2010
Sarah Walker took part in a mock arbitration staged as part of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)’s conference to celebrate the opening of Maxwell Chambers in January 2010. As part of the Programme of celebration, Christopher Lau QC and Bird & Bird hosted a dinner for conference delegates and friends of the firm. Alban Kang, Naresh Mahtani, Boey Swee Siang and Sarah Walker hosted the event for Bird & Bird. An article covering the opening of Maxwell Chambers prepared by Boey Swee Siang is attached. |