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He has given expert evidence in the English High Court and Crown Court, as well as in international arbitrations on over 30 occasions. He has given evidence in ICC, ICSID, LCIA, LMIA, UNCITRAL and various ad hoc arbitrations around the world. Andrew has acted as an arbitrator and regularly acts as a neutral determining expert on completion account disputes.
Andrew has received the following references in Who’s Who Legal: ‘“a consummate professional” who is “greatly respected” by peers and clients alike.’ ‘Andrew Grantham is highly recommended by market sources, who praise his outstanding testifying work in arbitration proceedings, most notably those relating to the construction industry.’‘Andrew Grantham draws international praise for his strong expert witness practice and testifying experience before UK courts and international arbitral tribunals.’
Andrew is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a fellow of the Expert Witness Institute. He was a governor, chairman of the finance committee and treasurer of the Expert Witness Institute from 2007 to 2014.
Francis Greenway
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Francis Greenway is a counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in London. He has experience with all major arbitral rules in commercial and investment arbitrations seated primarily in Europe and Asia as well as extensive experience of litigation in the English courts. He has advised on M&A disputes across the oil and gas, telecommunications, media, insurance and other commercial sectors.
Daniel Greineder
Peter & Kim
Daniel Greineder is an English-qualified barrister and partner in the Geneva office of Peter & Kim, a specialist dispute resolution practice. As counsel, Daniel Greineder advises and represents parties to arbitrations. He also accepts arbitrator appointments. He trained at the London commercial bar and was an associate in the arbitration group of WilmerHale in London for more than three years before moving to Switzerland in 2011. He routinely works with lawyers from different common and civil law backgrounds, and many of his cases involve the application of foreign law. In this, he benefits from being a native speaker of both English and German.
Much of his practice involves complex factual and expert evidence, in particular damages calculations. He has worked on numerous corporate disputes, including claims for breach of pre-contractual obligations, claims under representations and warranties, corporate governance and shareholder disputes and, more broadly, joint venture disputes. He has also assisted clients in settlement negotiations and has a particular interest in alternative dispute resolution, including expert determination and mediation.
Daniel Greineder is ranked as both a ‘Future Leader’ in arbitration and a leading construction lawyer in Switzerland in Who’s Who Legal 2018 and 2019. He was educated at the University of Oxford and City University, London.
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Andrea Gritsch
Wolf Theiss
Andrea Gritsch is a Vienna-based partner and member of the Wolf Theiss management team. She handles large-scale mandates spanning multiple jurisdictions and provides full coverage in key legal areas, including M&A, banking and financial services, finance, regulatory compliance, corporate and financial restructuring. Her clients include credit and financial institutions, insurance undertakings, corporates, corporate and financial investors, private equity and venture capital. In the context of her M&A practice, Andrea regularly advises in contentious M&A disputes, with a particular focus on financial arbitration. Andrea studied Austrian law and international economics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and Aston University, United Kingdom. Prior to becoming a lawyer, she was a candidate of the Austrian judiciary.
Gerald M Hansen
Forensic Risk Alliance
Gerald (Jerry) Hansen is a partner in the Dallas,Texas, office of Forensic Risk Alliance. He is a CPA and forensic accountant with extensive experience across a variety of accounting, audit, and financial forensics services, including M&A disputes (as a neutral expert and consulting expert), audit services, expert services, forensic due diligence and fraud investigations. He has served one of the Big Four public accounting firms, a multinational consultancy,as well as global corporations in a career spanning over 25 years.Mr Hansen previously served as the south-west region leader of Ernst & Young’s transaction forensics practice, a specialty practice that focused on disputes, investigations and forensic due diligence services stemming from contemplated or completed merger and acquisition transactions.
Mr Hansen has provided dispute-, forensicand audit-related services to clients in a wide range of industries, including real estate, professional services, financial services, technology, energy, transportation, manufacturing, software, food services, publishing, automotive, healthcare, retail, staffing services and advertising. He is a co-author of M&A Disputes
– A Professional Guide to Accounting Arbitrations (Wiley 2017), and he is a contributing author to The Litigation Services Handbook as well as the AICPA book The Guide to Investigating Business Fraud. He holds a BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University and an MS in Accounting from the University of Virginia.
Greg Huitson-Little
AlixPartners
Greg Huitson-Little works with clients on the financial aspects of litigations and disputes, both domestically and in international arbitration. He provides advice throughout the litigation process: during pre-action stages when considering whether to bring a case, an early assessment of where losses may lie, advice in relation to information and evidence that may be required, right through to detailed assessment of losses and the preparation of expert evidence for use in court or arbitration. Greg has a particular interest in matters relating to intellectual property and technology, but nevertheless maintains a broad, pan-industry practice. His M&A practice includes advice to clients during the completion phases, providing evidence in breach of warranty matters, and working in expert
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determination processes both as an advisor and a determining expert. Greg holds the degree of master of mathematics from the University of Oxford and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Philip Jeyaretnam SC
Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP
Philip Jeyaretnam is the global vice chair and regional CEO of Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP. He is a commercial litigator and international arbitration counsel. He was appointed as senior counsel in 2003 and has been named in all the major legal publications as an expert in arbitration, construction law and litigation. His active international arbitration practice as counsel spans investments and projects across Asia, and he has represented clients in arbitration proceedings in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, London, Zurich and Brunei. He is particularly experienced in disputes of two kinds, namely disputes involving difficult technical issues and disputes involving complex financial structuring. He has also had numerous appointments as arbitrator, particularly under SIAC and ICC Rules. He was president of the Law Society of Singapore from January 2004 to December 2007, and was the founding chairman of the Society of Construction Law, Singapore. He is currently chairman of Maxwell Chambers, the world’s first integrated dispute resolution venue. He graduated from Cambridge University with double first-class honours and held a visiting Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard Law School.
Lau Wen Jin
Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP
Lau Wen Jin is a senior associate in Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP’s litigation and arbitration practice group. He graduated from the Singapore Management University with an LLB (summa cum laude), and he then served as a justices’ law clerk to the Chief Justice and Judges of the Supreme Court of Singapore before entering private practice. His main areas of practice are commercial litigation and arbitration, and construction. He is a contributor to Chan Sek Keong (ed.) Civil Litigation in Singapore (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016) and Lan Luh Luh Essentials of Corporate Law & Governance in Singapore (Sweet & Maxwell, 2018). He also taught business law in the Singapore Management University as an adjunct lecturer.
Demet Kas¸arcıog˘lu
Esin Attorney Partnership
Demet Kas¸arcıog˘lu graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Law in 2009 and was admitted to the Istanbul Bar Association in 2010. She then completed her LLM degree in International Commercial Law at Newcastle University in England in 2011. Demet is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration’sYoung International Arbitration Group, the International Chamber of Commerce’sYoung Arbitrators Forum,Young ISTAC (Istanbul Arbitration Centre) and ASAYoung Arbitration Practitioners Group.
Demet focuses on the resolution of commercial disputes in the areas of M&A transactions and resolution of related commercial disputes through arbitration. Additionally,
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Demet represents clients before arbitral tribunals and before all levels of domestic courts, including in proceedings for the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards.
Amy C Kläsener
Dentons
Amy Kläsener is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office and leads the disputes team in Germany.Amy focuses on international commercial arbitration and has particular expertise in engineering, construction and M&A disputes. She also sits as arbitrator.Amy is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. From 2008 to 2010 she served as secretary to the IBA Rules of Evidence Subcommittee tasked with revising the 1999 IBA Rules of Evidence. Amy is passionate about innovation in delivering legal services, including by harnessing legal technology and process and project management techniques.
Chul Won Lee
Kim & Chang
Chul Won Lee is a partner in the firm’s international arbitration and cross-border litigation practice. Mr Lee started his legal career as a judge at Seoul Central District Court. He joined Kim & Chang in 2006 and has since been actively engaged in various international arbitration cases. Mr Lee is the first lawyer to be admitted to practise in both Korea and the United Kingdom by passing the Qualified LawyersTransfer Scheme, a qualification test for solicitors that was opened to Korean lawyers in 2011. His main practice areas include M&A disputes, shipbuilding disputes, insurance disputes, international trade disputes and investor-state dispute settlements. Mr Lee has been a key member of notable international M&A arbitration cases, including KLI, General Motors and Lone Star v. Olympus Capital. Mr Lee was involved in the inauguration of the Asia-Pacific Maritime Arbitration Center of Korean Commercial Arbitration Board in Busan, having prepared the maritime arbitration rule of the Center. Mr Lee also serves as director in charge of international affairs at the Korea Maritime Law Association, Korea International Private Law Association and Korea Insurance Law Association.
Alexandre Mazuranic
White & Case SA
Alexandre Mazuranic is a partner in White & Case’s international arbitration practice group and is based in Geneva. He has acted as counsel in complex commercial disputes submitted to arbitration in various industries and sectors involving, among others, mergers and acquisitions, construction and engineering, commodities trading, and pharmaceutical and healthcare.
In addition, Alexandre also serves as arbitrator and represents parties before the Swiss Supreme Court in proceedings related to challenges of arbitral awards.
Alexandre is the past co-chair of ASA below 40 (the Swiss Arbitration Association young practitioners’ group) and is recognised as one of the future leaders of the arbitration profession in WWL Future Leaders:Arbitration 2019.
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Anke Meier
Noerr LLP
Anke Meier, a partner in the Frankfurt office of Noerr LLP, is admitted to practise as an attorney in Germany and NewYork.
She has acted as counsel, or local co-counsel, for international and domestic clients in more than 70 arbitrations conducted under various arbitration rules as well as in ad hoc arbitration proceedings, including expedited cases and applications for interim measures. Additionally, she serves as party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator or presiding arbitrator on a regular basis. She also advises clients in complex German and US litigation, including the international taking of evidence and in proceedings filed before the domestic courts in connection with arbitration proceedings for recognition and enforcement of awards, jurisdictional disputes and challenges, among other things.
Anke Meier has broad experience in commercial and investment arbitration with a particular focus on disputes in the energy sector. Her practice comprises primarily large and complex international cases with a regional focus on the US and Eastern Europe. However, she also has experience with disputes involving Asian and African parties. She is frequently involved in post-M&A disputes, construction disputes and disputes arising out of supply contracts.
She studied law at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, from which she holds a Dr iur. She has earned an LLM in international dispute resolution at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law.
In 2013, the Federal Republic of Germany appointed her to the panel of conciliators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Jonathan M Moses
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Jonathan M Moses is co-chair of the firm’s litigation department, which he joined in 1998. He has represented clients in diverse industries, including banks and financial institutions, media companies and industrial firms. His practice includes complex commercial and securities litigation, government investigative proceedings and international arbitration.
Prior to joining the firm, Jon served as an attorney for the NewYork Daily News, where he worked on First Amendment issues. He is also a former journalist, having served, among other positions, as a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Jon received an AB from Harvard University and a JD from Columbia Law School. Following graduation from Harvard, Jon was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Hong Kong. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen F Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit following graduation from law school.
Jon is president-elect of the Federal Bar Council in the Second Circuit; chairman of the board of the NewYork City Leadership Academy, an educational organisation that focuses on training leaders who will foster success in public schools; and a member of the boards of The Marshall Project, a non-profit news organisation focused on criminal justice, the New-York Historical Society and Prep for Prep. He is also a member of the American Law Institute. Jon grew up in New Jersey.
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