Thursday, 4 April 2019, Paris, France

François Doré has worked for Bouygues Bâtiment International (a branch of Bouygues Construction) since 1995 in a variety of functions, including business development and construction management. However for most of that time he has been dealing with contract, and dispute, management related to the company’s international operations. Since 2008 François Doré is based at headquarters near Paris, where he occupies the position of central Risk Manager.

His responsibilities include strategic advice to BBI’s management board, and on-the-ground support to project directors and contract managers worldwide in contracts administration, assistance in the preparation of large claims, management of commercial disputes, pre-litigation, ADR, litigation and arbitration proceedings including relations with experts and external counsel.

François has first-hand experience, as party representative, of all major forms of dispute resolution: negotiation, mediation, adjudication (non-UK), arbitration and litigation. François is Fellow of the Charted Institute of Arbitrators and CEDR Accredited Mediator.

Amir is an experienced international arbitration partner. He has acted as counsel in more than 75 international commercial and construction arbitrations administered under the rules of all the major arbitral institutions, as well as in ad hoc proceedings. 

He has represented clients across a number of sectors, with particular experience in energy and natural resources, and construction and engineering. Amir has considerable experience representing governments (state owned entities and ministries) and international corporations in complex, ‘bet the company’ disputes and investigations. 

Amir is a seasoned advocate, and he has appeared as Advocate before numerous international Tribunals and various State Courts. He teaches International Arbitration Advocacy as a Faculty Member of the Federation of International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA).  Amir also regularly sits as an arbitrator (including as sole arbitrator), under the ICC, LCIA and DIFC-LCIA Rules.  

Jackie van Haersolte-van Hof became Director General of the LCIA on 1 July 2014. Previously, she practised as a counsel and arbitrator in The Hague, at her GAR 100 boutique HaersolteHof.

She set up HaersolteHof in 2008 after three years as of counsel in the international arbitration group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Amsterdam. She was previously with Amsterdam firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek from 2000 to 2004, and before that Loeff Claeys Verbeke in Rotterdam, which she joined on her qualification in 1992.

She has sat as arbitrator in cases under the ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules, as well as those of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI). She has also arbitrated cases at the Royal Dutch Grain and Feed Trade Association and the Institute of Transport and Maritime Arbitration, both based in the Netherlands. She is on the ICSID roster of arbitrators and has sat on an ad hoc annulment committee.

She was also involved in setting up the arbitral process for the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich, which analysed claims from Holocaust survivors over dormant accounts in Swiss banks.

She is a member of GAR’s editorial board.

Her 1992 PhD thesis on the application of the UNCITRAL rules by Iran-US Claims Tribunal was one of the first books to be published on the subject.

Maria Hauser-Morel is Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration, where she is in charge of the case management team that handles matters involving parties mainly from Central and Eastern Europe.

Prior to joining the ICC as a counsel, she was an associate in the Arbitration Group at Salans (now Dentons) in Paris and deputy counsel at the ICC Secretariat. She had also worked for a Polish law firm Soltysinski, Kawecki & Szlezak as well as for Allen & Overy in Paris.

Mrs Hauser-Morel is a Polish qualified lawyer, holds a doctorate of law from the Wroclaw University (Poland) and a Master of European and International Business Law at the University of Saint Gallen.

A Singapore Senior Counsel and Chartered Arbitrator, Christopher’s arbitration and mediation practice encompasses all aspects of commercial disputes, in particular construction, corporate, maritime and energy. Christopher has been appointed as arbitrator in over 130 mostly international arbitrations seated in both common and civil law jurisdictions conducted either on an ad hoc basis or under various institutional arbitration rules. He is a member of, among others, the LCIA Court, the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, KCAB’s International Arbitration Committee and the MCIA Council. He is also an independent, non-executive director of the Board of Directors of Wing Tai Holdings Ltd, Singapore’s leading property developer and lifestyle company.

Lindy Patterson QC is a barrister specialising in international arbitration and adjudication. She has a particular focus on the construction and energy sectors as well as general commercial contracts, including PPP.

She acts regularly as arbitrator and adjudicator and has extensive experience as counsel and as tribunal member/chair.  She operates in many jurisdictions, both civil and common law, and with a variety of governing laws.

She has chaired a number of dispute boards, both ad hoc and standing, across the world and plays an active role in promoting dispute avoidance by these means. She is currently President of DRBF (Region 2).

Jim Perry is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and holds a BsCE in civil engineering. Based in Paris since 1988, Jim has served on numerous dispute boards and Arbitration Tribunals in Central Europe, Central Asia, the Caucuses, Latin America, Africa, SE Asia, Australasia and the Middle East.  Jim is a member of the FIDIC President’s list, the Syntec-Ingénierie list of adjudicators (France) and is President-elect of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation.

Christopher Seppälä is Partner of Counsel in the International Arbitration Group of White & Case LLP, Paris.  His main areas of practice are international commercial arbitration and international construction.

He is the Legal Advisor to the FIDIC Contracts Committee, a former Vice-President Emeritus of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and currently is FIDIC’s representative on that Court.  He was Legal Advisor (and Member) of FIDIC's Update Task Group which prepared the three FIDIC conditions of contract for major works (the "Red", "Yellow" and "Silver" Books), published in 1999.

He is a member of the New York and Paris Bars.