JANIS H. BRENNAN, Partner, Foley Hoag LLP, Washington
Janis Brenn
an brings both transactional and dispute resolution experience to her extensive international practice. On the transactional side she has assisted clients with investment, venture capital, privatization and commercial contracts in such diverse geographic areas as Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and Russia. Part of her contractual work involves the creation of joint ventures, licensing agreements, distributorships and agencies in various countries. In these and other matters, her international business knowledge gives guidance to clients on the legal, political, and practical aspects of doing business in foreign markets and in the United States. Project finance and infrastructure projects are central to the global business counsel that Janis provides. She structures public/private partnerships for international infrastructure projects and related project financing, negotiating such transactions on behalf of both corporate and governmental clients. In the area of commercial disputes, Janis regularly litigates claims against foreign country governments and their state-owned corporations. She also helps both private sector and national government clients resolve investment controversies, and is knowledgeable about litigation under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Janis has successfully arbitrated international commercial and investment disputes under the arbitration rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, American Arbitration Association, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, and various commodities associations.
MARINN CARLSON, Partner, Sidley Austin, Washington
Ms. Car
lson is a Partner at Sidley Austin LLP where she focuses her practice in international dispute settlement, with an emphasis on investor-state arbitration and WTO disputes. She has represented foreign investors as well as respondent governments in ICSID arbitrations under investment treaties and trade agreements, including NAFTA. She has represented corporate clients in a wide range of institutional (e.g. ICC, Zurich Chamber) and ad hoc (e.g. UNCITRAL) international commercial arbitrations. She has also represented clients in U.S. litigation with international ramifications, and as amici curiae in foreign affairs, intellectual property, and Commerce Clause cases before the United States Supreme Court and various courts of appeal. She counsels clients in sectors ranging from financial services to infrastructure development on the implications of international trade and investment rules for their global operations. Ms. Carlson has spoken at conferences and taught classes, workshops and seminars on a wide range of topics in international arbitration, including investor-state arbitration case law and practice, as well as arbitration advocacy skills. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA), as well as an Executive Council member andthe Budget and Finance Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), and she serves on the Board of Visitors of Dartmouth College’s John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.
CLAUDIA FRUTOS-PETERSON, International Counsel, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, Washington
Claud
ia Frutos-Peterson is an International Counsel in the Washington office of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP where she concentrates her practice in International arbitration. Prior to joining Curtis, Ms. Frutos-Peterson worked as legal counsel at the World Bank Group’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). As Counsel at ICSID, Ms. Frutos-Peterson served as secretary of tribunals in numerous arbitral proceedings brought under the ICSID Convention and the ICSID Additional Facility Mechanism. In March 2003, Ms. Frutos-Peterson published a book on international commercial arbitration in Latin America. She is adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law teaching International Commercial Arbitration. Ms. Frutos-Peterson received her law degree at the University of Nuevo León, in Monterrey, Mexico. She also received a Master’s Degree in International Economic Law and a Doctorate in International Commercial Arbitration in Latin America, with highest honors, from the University of Paris-I ( (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
MICHAEL EVAN JAFFE, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Washington
During his more than 30 years as a trial lawyer, Mr. Jaffe has focused on dispute resolution internationally in arbitrations under various inte
rnational arbitral regimes and domestically in court and arbitration proceedings. A significant part of his work has involved representing owners, contractors and other stakeholders in projects ranging from infrastructure and energy facilities to sports stadiums and a wide variety of commercial structures. He has acted as counsel in numerous international and domestic arbitrations, has been counsel in mediations involving both international and domestic matters and has served as an arbitrator involving projects in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Jaffe is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He has been lead counsel, in a wide array of construction industry and commercial litigation matters. He has been widely recognized as a leading trial lawyer. Among the publications recognizing him are the 2008 and 2009 PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (“Highly Recommended”), the 2003 through 2009 Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers, the 2008 and 2009 Super Lawyers (Washington, DC Edition), and the 2007-2009 PLC Cross Border Dispute Resolution Guide. He has, in addition, been recognized in various other “Best Lawyers” guides.
JEAN KALICKI, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington
Jean Kalic
ki is a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP focusing on international arbitration as both arbitrator and counsel. As arbitrator she has served as chair, sole arbitrator, and co-arbitrator in a wide variety of commercial and investment disputes, before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). As counsel, she has particular experience in investment treaty disputes and has represented both investors and states, in roughly equal numbers, in disputes arising under bilateral investment treaties, NAFTA and the Energy Charter Treaty. In commercial cases, Ms. Kalicki has represented clients (including the United Nations) in disputes involving five continents.
Ms. Kalicki is a member of the AAA Board of Directors, the ICC Commission on Arbitration, and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and is listed on numerous rosters of arbitrators maintained by leading institutions. She is the long-time co-chair of the DC Bar's International Dispute Resolution Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. She teaches as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and American University Washington College of Law.
Ms. Kalicki has been widely recognized for her leadership in the field. Selected as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" for international arbitration (2010-2011) and as one of the top 30 women in arbitration worldwide (Global Arbitration Review 2007), Ms. Kalicki has been described as "a thorough, meticulous and highly motivated arbitrator" (Chambers USA, 2011), as "simply superb" (The Legal 500, 2008), and as "an incredible investigator and researcher who is gifted at identifying key issues" and "knows how to use legal analysis to structure the best argument possible" (Chambers USA, 2008). She is also repeatedly listed in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers and International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.
ANN CATHERINE KETTLEWELL, Legal Counsel, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Washington
Cathy Kettlewell joined the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes as a lawyer in 2011. Prior to joining ICSID, Ms. Kettlewell was an attorney at the Washington, DC office of Squire Sanders LLP. Her practice focused on energy-related matters and she has been counsel in matters ranging from natural gas pipeline development to representing a state in an international arbitration conducted under ICSID rules. She has also international trade and antitrust experience having acted as counsel in several regulatory proceedings before Mexican and US authorities.
LOUIS B. KIMMELMAN, Partner, Allen & Overy LLP, New York
Benno 
Kimmelman is a partner in the International Arbitration group. His work focuses on the arbitration and litigation of a broad range of complex commercial and construction disputes. He regularly represents U.S. and foreign parties, along with sovereign entities, in international disputes before arbitral tribunals and state and federal courts. These disputes have involved issues such as the jurisdiction of U.S. courts, the doctrine of forum non conveniens, anti-suit injunctions, forum selection and choice-of-law clauses, the extraterritorial application of U.S. law, sovereign immunity, discovery in the international context, and the enforceability of arbitration agreements and arbitration awards. Benno has arbitrated cases before the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, the American Arbitration Association, the Kuala Lumpur Regional Center for Arbitration, and other international and domestic arbitration bodies.
Benno is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches International Commercial Arbitration and International Litigation. Prior to joining Allen & Overy, Benno was a partner and co-chair of the international arbitration practice at O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Benno was ranked in Chambers USA 2008: "According to observers, the presence of the 'thoughtful and diligent' Benno Kimmelman has made a 'palpable difference' to A&O’s US arbitration practice. His 'obvious ability' in this area has attracted a range of heavyweight clients from various industries."
PAUL-JEAN LE CANNU, Legal Counsel, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Washington
Paul-Jean Le Cannu is a lawyer at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Before joining ICSID, Mr. Le Cannu was a legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague where he provided legal and administrative support to arbitral tribunals and parties in proceedings administered by the PCA as well as assistance with UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules appointing authority matters. Prior to joining the PCA, Mr. Le Cannu was an associate in the arbitration team of Shearman & Sterling LLP in Paris.
DANA MACGRATH, Senior Counsel, Allen & Overy LLP, New York
Dana Mac
Grath has a broad range of experience in international arbitration and litigation as well as U.S. federal and state court litigation. She has participated in international arbitrations before the major arbitration institutions as well as ad hoc arbitration tribunals.
She has represented parties in U.S. courts regarding the enforceability of international arbitration clauses as well as enforcement of international arbitral awards. Ms. MacGrath writes and speaks regularly on current issues in international arbitration and litigation.
Dana MacGrath received her B.A. from Middlebury College in 1991 and J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1996.
JACK MCKAY, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Washington
Mr. McKa
y is a member of Pillsbury's Litigation/Arbitration group with more than 30 years of experience in courts across the United States and in dozens of arbitrations, domestic and international. His clients include significant businesses in the United States and abroad.
Litigation in disputes concerning technology and energy contracts has been a staple of Mr. McKay's practice. He has litigated the development, sale and implementation of computer hardware and software; represented the manufacturer of the primary mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope; and directed the most significant litigation to date over the transportation and storage of spent nuclear fuel. Energy related work has included international litigation/arbitration for foreign clients in disputes regarding coal deliveries, importation issues, and intellectual property rights. Mr. McKay has complemented this experience by litigating a wide variety of joint venture, partnership and other contractual agreements created to exploit business opportunities.
Mr. McKay serves as an arbitrator under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association, and lectures on international arbitration conducted under the rules of the ICC and other dispute resolution rules.
JAMES MENDENHALL, Partner, Sidley Austin, Washington
James M
endenhall is counsel in the International Trade and Dispute Resolution group in the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C., concentrating in international trade policy and litigation.
From 2005 to January 2007, Mr. Mendenhall served as the General Counsel of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). In that capacity, Mr. Mendenhall supervised U.S. participation in World Trade Organization and NAFTA disputes and handled all legal aspects of U.S. bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade negotiations. Mr. Mendenhall also served as the principal U.S. negotiator of the United States-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement and was the USTR representative on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Mendenhall served as the Assistant United States Trade Representative (AUSTR) for Services, Investment and Intellectual Property. While serving as AUSTR, he oversaw bilateral and regional trade agreement negotiations dealing with services (including financial services), investment and intellectual property, and World Trade Organization negotiations related to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and WTO agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Mr. Mendenhall was responsible for monitoring the adoption and enforcement of laws to protect the rights of U.S. owners of intellectual property in countries around the world.
Prior to joining the U.S. Government, Mr. Mendenhall spent nine years in private practice, concentrating in the areas of trade remedies litigation, international arbitration, trade policy and litigation before World Trade Organization panels.
FERNANDO MANTILLA-SERRANO, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Paris
Fernando 
Mantilla-Serrano is a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s International Arbitration Group. He has represented companies, states and state-owned entities in more than 25 international arbitration cases, with emphasis on international contracts, construction, energy, banking, corporate and general commercial matters. He has also served as sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator or Chairman in more than 15 domestic and international arbitrations. He is a member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators. Fernando Mantilla-Serrano is an expert on arbitration in Latin America.
Fernando Mantilla-Serrano joined Shearman & Sterling as a partner in 2003. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner and head of the international arbitration practice at Garrigues in Madrid, Spain; legal counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration; foreign associate with the law firm of Bracken & Margolin, New York; and in-house counsel for the Colombian Banking Association and for Acerías Paz del Río (steel mill).
Fernando Mantilla-Serrano has authored numerous articles on arbitration, in Spanish, English and in French, including in Arbitration International, Revue de l’arbitrage (France), Journal of International Arbitration, Revista de la Corte Española de Arbitraje, and Revista Internacional de Arbitraje.
LOUKAS MISTELIS, Director of the School of International Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, London
Loukas Mi
stelis is the Clive M. Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, where he is Director of Studies of the School of International Arbitration. He is also an adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University, School of Law and he teaches at the University of London LLM program. He also maintains a selective arbitration and consulting practice which focuses on international commercial and investment disputes, secured transactions and complex contractual matters. Mr. Mistelis has published various pieces, focusing on the internationalism of commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and harmonization of arbitration procedure. LL.B. (Hons) (University of Athens, Greece, 1991); Certificate in International & Comparative Human Rights (IIHR, Strasbourg, 1990); M.L.E. (magna cum laude, 1992), Dr. iuris (summa cum laude) (Law School, Hanover, Germany, 1998); Certificate in Japanese International Trade Law (Law School, Keio University, Tokyo, 1998); Member of the Athens Bar (since 1993). Besides English he is fluent in German and Greek, has good knowledge of French, and basic knowledge of Polish, Spanish and Russian.
HORACIO A. GRIGERA NAON, Director, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, Washington
Professor H
oracio Grigera Naón is a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence and Director of the Center on International Commercial Arbitration at American University Washington College of Law where he teaches International Commercial Arbitration and Choice-of-Law Issues in International Commercial Arbitration. He also serves as an independent international arbitrator and consultant on business and international law matters, and is former Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce. He has been a practitioner in the field of international commercial arbitration and international business law for over twenty-five years.
Dr. Grigera Naón has published and lectured widely on these topics, including a book on "Choice-of-Law Problems in International Commercial Arbitration" (1992) and lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law (2001) on the same topic. He is also an adviser for the American Law Institute’s new Restatement of the Law (Third) of International Commercial Arbitration, a member of the Advisory Board of The Institute for Transnational Arbitration, a former Special Counsel with White & Case LLP and a former Senior Counsel with the International Finance Corporation in Washington D.C. Professor Grigera Naón holds LLM and SJD degrees from Harvard Law School, LLB and LLD degrees from the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires and is a member of the Argentine Federal, New York, District of Columbia, and United States Supreme Court Bars.
EDUARDO SILVA ROMERO, Partner, Dechert LLP, Paris
Eduardo
Silva Romero is a Partner at the Paris office of Dechert LLP. He focuses on litigation and arbitration matters, particularly on international disputes involving state entities, as well as Spanish and Latin American parties. An accomplished expert in international commercial arbitration, he has supervised numerous proceedings before arbitration panels worldwide. Former Assistant Counsel, Counsel, and Deputy Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Mr. Silva Romero's far-reaching experience includes international sales and distribution contracts, construction, oil, M&A and electricity-related disputes. Recognized as one of the top 45 lawyers under the age of 45 (45 under 45) by the Global Arbitration Review, Mr. Silva Romero is also listed in the Legal 500, Chambers and Décideurs Stratégie Finance Droit. He is admitted to the Colombian and French Bars and is fluent in Spanish, French and English. Mr. Silva Romero earned his PhD (Docteur en Droit Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Paris II - Assas in 2000. He also holds advanced degrees from the same institution in Philosophy of Law (DEA, 1996) and Private International Law (DSU, 1995), and a diploma in Comparative Law and Legal Terminology and a law degree from Universidad del Rosario (1993).
LAWRENCE SHORE, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York
Laur
ence Shore is a dual U.S./U.K. qualified partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-chair of the firm's International Arbitration Practice Group. Mr. Shore's practice focuses on international arbitration. He has been the lead advocate in a large number of arbitration cases under, for example, the ICC, LCIA, AAA, UNCITRAL and SWISS Rules. He also has sat as an arbitrator in cases under the ICC, Cairo Regional Centre, and LCIA Rules. In addition to his work as an arbitration practitioner, Mr. Shore has tried cases in the United States courts and in England's High Court.
Chambers Global 2009 and Chambers Europe 2008 ranks Mr. Shore as a leading individual for Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration. Mr. Shore is a co-author (with C. McLachlan and M. Weiniger) of International Investment Arbitration: Substantive Principles (Oxford University Press, 2007). He also serves on the Editorial Board of International Arbitration Law Review, and holds the appointment of Visiting Professor in the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Shore was the global head of international arbitration at a major law firm in London. Mr. Shore earned his Juris Doctor in 1989 from, Emory University School of Law. He previously earned a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy in history, both from the Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Shore received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
MALLORY B. SILBERMAN, Associate, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington
Mallor
y Silberman is an associate in Arnold & Porter LLP's International Arbitration, Litigation, and Latin America practice groups, where she focuses on international dispute resolution between sovereign states and multinational corporations. Ms. Silberman has represented foreign sovereigns in investor-state and international commercial arbitration proceedings as well as in US litigation proceedings. She has particular experience in investment treaty disputes and has represented both investors and states in disputes involving arising under bilateral investment treaties, NAFTA, and the Energy Charter Treaty. Ms. Silberman has represented clients in disputes involving four continents. She is the teaching assistant for Georgetown University Law Center course on advocacy in international arbitration, and is a guest lecturer for an intensive arbitration course held at American University Washington College of Law.
MAIRÉE URAN BIDEGAIN, Legal Counsel, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Washington
Mairée Uran Bidegain is a lawyer at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Prior to joining ICSID, Ms. Uran Bidegain was an associate at White & Case LLP in Washington, DC, where advised sovereign states and private parties on cross-border negotiations, financial transactions and international dispute resolution relating to foreign investment. Ms. Uran Bidegain has acted as counsel in investor-state disputes including proceedings under the auspices of ICSID and other arbitral institutions.
JANET WHITTAKER, Legal Counsel, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, Washington
Janet Whittaker is a lawyer at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Before joining ICSID, Ms. Whittaker was a litigation attorney in the New York office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. She has experience in international litigation and arbitration in several jurisdictions, including the United States and England. She has acted as counsel in international arbitrations conducted under UNCITRAL, ICC, and LCIA rules, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations. She has acted on behalf of governments and investors in investment treaty arbitration under bilateral investment treaties and CAFTA-DR. Ms. Whittaker has also represented clients in regulatory proceedings before the English, European, and U.S. antitrust authorities, as well as before the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ms. Whittaker has been an adjunct faculty member of Stanford Law School where she established the International Commercial Arbitration course. Ms. Whittaker is also a member of the faculty of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and has taught on the Diploma Course in International Commercial Arbitration. She has previously taught European Law to undergraduate and postgraduate students at University College, London.
ANNE MARIE WHITESELL, Of Counsel, Dechert LLP Paris - Washington
Befor
e joining Dechert, Anne Marie Whitesell was secretary general of the ICC International Court of Arbitration from 2001 to 2007. Ms. Whitesell supervised approximately 1,100 international arbitration cases each year involving parties from more than 120 countries. She also worked closely with the 126 members of the International Court of Arbitration, who hailed from 88 different countries, and contributed to the institution's profile and reputation around the world.
She has practised with law firms in both the United States and in France and was a lecturer at the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Institut de Droit Comparé (Université de Paris II).
Ms. Whitesell is based in the Washington, D.C. office but works closely with the Paris office. She is admitted to the New York State Bar, the District of Columbia Bar and the US District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
