WHEN MARKETS MOVE AND CONTRACTS DON’T: RESOLVING OIL AND GAS TRADING DISPUTES
Join us in Geneva for a practical discussion on arbitration in oil and gas trading, featuring the DELOS COMARB Rules.
Date: 19 November 2026
Time: 5 pm CET, followed by drinks
Location: Centre de l’ Espérance. 8, rue de la Chapelle. 1207 Genève.
Please register your interest below. Places are limited, and registration does not guarantee attendance; places will be confirmed closer to the event date.
SPEAKERS
Christina Charemi, is the founder and principal of E.N.C. She is a dual-qualified lawyer (England & Wales; United States, State Bar of California) with over a decade of international experience in energy, commodities and cross-border disputes. Christina has practised in leading global hubs including California, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Geneva. She is fluent in English, French and Greek. Christina studied law at the University of Oxford (BA, Jurisprudence) and the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (LL.M., Law & Technology Cert). Prior to founding E.N.C., she practiced at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and in-house at TotalEnergies.
Thomas Granier, is a founding partner of Anima Dispute Resolution in London and Paris. He has represented clients in arbitrations concerning various sectors, including in the mining, commodities, energy and logistics sectors. He also represents parties in setting aside and enforcement proceedings in France. Trilingual in English, French, and German, he has acted as president, co-arbitrator, and sole arbitrator in ICC, DIS, Delos Dispute Resolution, Arias France and ad hoc arbitrations in these three languages. He is a co-chair of the French Arbitration Committee below 40 (CFA 40). He is also a member of the Arbitration Advisory Committee of Delos Dispute Resolution, Vice-President of the Arbitration Court of the Casablanca International Mediation and Arbitration Center, and Vice-President of the Arbitration Committee of the BVI International Arbitration Center. Prior to founding Anima Dispute Resolution, Thomas worked at McDermott Will & Emery and Asafo & Co. He served as Counsel in charge of the ICC International Court of Arbitration Secretariat team, where he administered cases relating to Africa, the Middle East, and France.
Hafez R. 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.
