December 06, 2019
GAR Live Women in Arbitration took place at Butchers' Hall in London on 5 December. The event was co-chaired by Sylvia Noury, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Annette Magnusson, Secretary General of the SCC Arbitration Institute. It was supported by 3 Verulam Bulidings, Allen & Overy, AlixPartners and Bentham IMF, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Squire Patton Boggs and Betto Perben Pradel Filhol. The refreshments break was sponsored by White & Case. The GAR Live Women in Arbitration conference exhibitor was JAMS and King & Spalding were the associate sponsor. Supporting organisations were Arbitral Women, ERA and the New York International Arbitration Centre....
December 05, 2019
Photos for the 6th annual GAR Live Frankfurt can be found here. The 6th annual GAR Live Frankfurt took place on 28 May and was chaired by Anke Meier of Noerr and Daniel Busse of Busse Disputes. The conference was sponsored by Busse Disputes and Burford Capital with the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution as supporting organisations. The drinks reception was hosted by Berkeley Research Group....
December 02, 2019
Photos from the 3rd Annual GAR Live Vienna can be found here. GAR Live Vienna was co-chaired by Eliane Fischer of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Alice Fremuth-Wolf, secretary general of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) and Stefan Riegler of Wolf Theiss and the Austrian Arbitration Association. It was held at the VIAC's Sky Lounge, Wiedner Hauptstraße 63, Vienna. The conference was in association with the VIAC, the Austrian Arbitration Association and Yong Austrian Arbitration...
November 28, 2019
Photos of the 7th annual GAR Live Paris are now available. GAR Live Paris was co-chaired by Carole Malinvaud of Gide Loyrette Nouel and Roland Ziadé of Linklaters. It was held at the offices of Gide Loyrette Nouel. The conference was supported by 4 New Square, Clyde & Co, Cornerstone Research, Debevoise & Plimpton and Vannin Capital. Mayer Brown hosted a speakers' dinner....
November 25, 2019
Photos of the 6th annual GAR Live Dubai can be found here. GAR Live Dubai was co-chaired by Mohamed S Abdel Wahab of Zulficar & Partners and Erin Miller Rankin of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. It was held at DIFC Conference Centre, The Exchange Building, Gate Village 11, Dubai International Financial Centre. The conference gold sponsor was Dubai International Arbitration Centre and the associate sponsor was Clyde & Co. The speakers' dinner was hosted by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, drinks reception by Blackrock Expert Services Group and refreshment breaks by Herbert Smith Freehills. GAR Live Dubai was supported by 3 Verulam Buildings, 4 New Square, Ankura, augusta, Fenwick Elliott, King & Wood Mallesons, Masin, Mayer Brown, Reed Smith, Youssef & Partners, Vinson & Elkins and Zulficar & Partners....
November 19, 2019
On the eve of this year's GAR Live Dubai, we look back to 2018's edition, and session three, in which Mark McNeill and panel tackled one of the great conundrums: why is it that reputable independent experts - who would never testify "contrary to their own conviction" nonetheless reliably end up producing work that favours the side who appointed them. What's the alchemy at work, and can it be reformulated? GAR Live Dubai 2018 took place on 15 November 2018, at the DIFC. Session three was titled "the...
November 08, 2019
Pictures for GAR Live Advanced Damages Workshop can be found here. GAR Live Advanced Damages Workshop was held at Pinsent Masons' London offices on November 8. Co-chaired by Alexander Demuth of Alvarez & Marsal and WilmerHale partner John Tremor, the conference was supported by Cornerstone Research, Nera Economic Consulting, Profile Investment, Versant Partners, Erdem & Erdem Law Office and Arbitration Ireland. A speaker's dinner was held the previous day, which was sponsored by Alvarez & Marsal. ...
Premium article - October 22, 2019
Part of GAR Live Advanced Damages Workshop - coming soon - will be devoted to hot topics. We invite readers to submit ideas for the panel. GAR Live Advanced Damages Workshop takes place in London on Thursday, 7 November. The half-day event - an extension of the GAR Guide to Damages in International Arbitration (third edition) - aims to help non-mathematical types grow more confident in a world of spreadsheets and models; and improve the communication of damages arguments generally, leading to better...
Premium article - October 07, 2019
It's often assumed common lawyers have an advantage over civil lawyers - in any dispute that entails document production. It's ingrained in their legal education. But according to Barton Legum, of Dentons, in fact it's the common lawyer who really suffers at such times - and for whom engaging in discovery with a civil law opponent will be at best pointless and at worst self-sabotage. Legum made his counterintuitive comments during a debate at GAR Live Vienna 2018. "All arbitration practitioners know...
Premium article - September 13, 2019
Pictures from the 7th annual GAR Live Istanbul are now available.