Join our event on 16 October, at 9-11am CEST to sharpen your oral advocacy skills. This hybrid event, jointly organised by the Swedish Women in Arbitration Network (SWAN) and Delos, will be held in person at the Stockholm offices of Norburg & Scherp Advokatbyrå AB, as well as live online.

The speakers (bios below) will be Ginta Ahrel (Westerberg & Partners, Stockholm), Anders Forss (Castrén & Snellman, Helsinki), Nina Lauber-Thommesen (Independent, Geneva), Anina Liebkind (Norburg & Scherp, Stockholm), Ghazal Miyar (Delos Dispute Resolution, Paris), and Hafez Virjee (Delos Dispute Resolution, Paris).

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SPEAKERS

Ginta Ahrel is specialised in dispute resolution with a focus on international arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments. She acts as counsel and regularly serves as sole, chair and party-appointed arbitrator under the rules of leading arbitral institutions and in ad hoc proceedings. Ginta has particular experience in international trade, construction, energy, IT and post-M&A disputes. Recent mandates as counsel include acting for foreign investors against the Republic of Kazakhstan and the National Bank of Kazakhstan in annulment and enforcement proceedings and acting for Baltic construction companies in court and arbitration proceedings in Sweden. She is a founding partner of Westerberg & Partners. Prior to that, she was a partner at another major Swedish law firm. Ginta has also worked with mergers and acquisitions, advising on corporate and contract law. Ginta is the president of the Swedish Arbitration Association and serves also as board member of the Arbitration Institute of the SCC.

Anders Forss is the co-head of our Dispute Resolution service. He represents corporations across various business sectors in both domestic and international arbitration proceedings governed by Finnish and international arbitration rules as well as in domestic and cross-border litigation cases. He has advised clients in a large number of complex business disputes relating to, among other things, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholders’ agreements, energy, financing, construction and engineering, IT and telecommunications, product liability, sale of goods as well as white-collar crime cases. He is frequently appointed as an arbitrator both by parties and by arbitration institutes such as the FAI and the SCC. In addition, he serves as a board member of the Finnish Arbitration Association and the Law Society of Finland. Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal 500, Who`s Who Legal and Benchmark Litigation rank him among Finland’s leading experts in dispute resolution.

Nina Lauber-Thommesen is an independent arbitrator based in Geneva, Switzerland. The strength of her experience and expertise comes from a unique combination of Nordic legal background, extensive practice in Switzerland and with Swiss law, and solid experience in international dispute resolution. Nina has acted as arbitrator (twenty cases), counsel to parties and tribunal secretary (combined more than fifty cases) in a wide range of industries, with particular focus on construction, energy, joint ventures and industrial cooperation, M&A, banking and finance, agency and distribution, sales contracts, licencing agreements, and sports related disputes. Her experience spans all major arbitration rules, including ICC, SCC, Swiss Rules, DIA, LCIA and UNCITRAL, and a variety of national arbitration acts and substantive laws from the civil law and common law traditions. Before starting her own practice in 2023, Nina Lauber-Thommesen was Counsel at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, a leading international arbitration boutique based in Geneva, Switzerland. She joined Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler in 2015 after having spent four years in the international arbitration group of Python & Peter, also in Geneva (2011-2015). She obtained an LL.M in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS, Geneva) in 2011. She acquired her first law degree (Master of Laws, University of Bergen, Norway) in 2007 and trained for the Norwegian bar (norsk advokatbevilling) in Bergen, Norway (2010). Nina speaks Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, English and French.

Anina Liebkind is a partner at Norburg & Scherp. Anina has more than a decade of experience with dispute resolution and is a specialist in the energy, finance, insurance and technology & telecommunications industries. Anina’s practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation. Anina has advised and represented clients in more than 30 international arbitration proceedings in Stockholm, Geneva and Paris. She has experience in international arbitration proceedings under ad hoc and institutional rules (including ICC, ICSID, SCC, FAI, DIS and UNCITRAL) governed by a multiplicity of procedural and substantive laws. Anina has also acted as counsel in litigation proceedings before the courts in both Sweden and Finland, and regularly advises clients on the recognition, enforcement and setting aside of arbitral awards, and acts as counsel in such litigation proceedings before local courts. Anina is dual-qualified in both Sweden and Finland, and holds an LL.M. degree in International Dispute Settlement from the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (MIDS). Anina is recognized by Who’s Who Legal 2022 as a National Leader in Sweden and as a Global Future Leader in the field of arbitration. Anina frequently publishes and lectures on arbitration topics, including acting as a visiting lecturer for the Master of Laws in International Commercial Arbitration (ICAL) program at the University of Stockholm. She is an international member of the Finnish Arbitration Institute’s Board and served as the Co-Chair of the IBA Arb 40 Subcommittee 2020-2021.

Ghazal Miyar is the Head of Training and Outreach at Delos, and a member of the faculty on the WAWA Written Advocacy course. She is also an adjunct lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, where she obtained a Ph.D., teaching human rights, international law, and human rights and arbitration. Ghazal consults for various organisations on compliance with human rights obligations, as well as developing trainings on this topic. She is admitted as an attorney to the High Court of South Africa, where she has practiced in the field of dispute resolution for several years, and obtained her LL.B and LL.M at the University of Pretoria.

Hafez Virjee is the President and a co-Founder of Delos. Hafez also serves as an independent arbitrator at Virjee Arbitration, having acted for many years prior as counsel. The parties in his cases have spanned the range of listed companies, private equity firms, tech start-ups, industrial concerns, State entities and treaty organisations, in disputes across a wide range of sectors and relationships, including shareholder agreements, joint-ventures, agency, M&A, telecommunications, tech, energy, pharmaceutical, construction and defence. Hafez is a solicitor of England & Wales and also qualified in France. He was previously at Dechert in Paris (with a secondment to Dubai in 2015) and prior to that at Freshfields in London. He co-edits the Delos Guide to Arbitration Places (GAP) and regularly writes and speaks on international arbitration and legal risk management. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (M.A.), the Université Paris – Panthéon-Assas (Maîtrise) and the University of California – Berkeley (LL.M.). He is listed as an arbitration leader by Who’s Who Legal in multiple categories.