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DELOS SUPPORTS ARBITRATION PRACTITIONERS AND IN-HOUSE COUNSEL WITH PRACTICAL, SKILLS-BASED TRAINING

ROAP AMERICAS – 2025/6 EDITION

Welcome to Delos's advanced oral advocacy training programme in international arbitration. This consists of two courses: one on oral submissions, the other on cross-examination. Find out more here, meet our leading faculty for the Americas, Asia, EMEA and LATAM editions, and meet our talented participants for the Americas, Asia, EMEA and LATAM editions, both practising attorneys and testifying experts. If you would like to attend a mock hearing and follow the oral submissions live, you can find out more here.

Please meet the ROAP Americas Co-Chairs, Faculty and Convenors, comprising leading international arbitration counsel based across North America, who also regularly sit as arbitrators and senior quantum experts:

From left to right and top to bottom, we are fortunate to have Heather Clark, Simon Consedine, Gaela Gehring, Laura Hardin, Dawn Yamane Hewett, Minwoo Kim, Adrián Magallanes, Hugh Meighen, Neal Mizrahi, Danielle Morris, Tim Nelson, Gisela Paris, John Pierce, Mallory Silberman and Vasuda Sinha. Their short bios are set out below.

Mr. Nelson represents clients before, among others, the American Arbitration Association/International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and tribunals constituted under the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission of International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and the federal and state courts of the United States.

Mr. Nelson’s international litigation and arbitration experience includes disputes involving contracts, international trusts, partnerships (limited and general) and corporate law, as well as cases falling under the 1980 Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Mr. Nelson has been involved in litigation arising under the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, Section 1782 (the cross-border discovery statute), the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards and the 1965 Hague Convention on Service of Process. Additionally, Mr. Nelson regularly advises sovereign and corporate clients on public international law issues, including under multilateral treaties, such as NAFTA; the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) bilateral investment treaties (BITS); and other international trade/investment agreements. He is co-editor of Take the Witness: Cross-Examination in International Arbitration (2d ed. 2018) and the Journal of Enforcement of Arbitration Awards.

Before joining the firm in 2000, Mr. Nelson practiced as a commercial litigation attorney at major law firms in England and Australia. He has been recognized as a leading lawyer in Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Chambers Latin America, The Best Lawyers in America and Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal - Arbitration). Mr. Nelson also has been repeatedly named a Litigation Star and National Practice Area Star by Benchmark Litigation, as well as to Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Global Litigators list. Additionally, he was named a 2024 Law360 MVP in the International Arbitration category. Mr. Nelson also has been chosen as a winner of the ILO Client Choice Awards in the New York arbitration category and the Burton Award for legal writing, and has been published several times in leading publications, including a leading treatise on serving foreign defendants from countries that are not party to the Hague Convention, “Overseas in Non-Hague,” in the New York Law Journal.

Mallory Silberman is one of the co-chairs of ROAP Americas and the founder of MS ARBITRATION, which focuses on providing bespoke training, hearing-prep help, and a range of other tools and services to practitioners. Before launching her own company, she was an equity partner in the international arbitration group of Arnold & Porter.

While in private practice, Mallory represented investors and a total of 17 sovereign States in nearly 50 treaty cases — leading her to be recognized in Who’s Who Legal as being “among the world’s most experienced young practitioners of investment arbitration.”

In addition to having a decade of first-chair experience, Mallory is praised by her peers as “one of the best advocates I have seen,” and is considered to be “brilliant at cross-examination.” Lexology Index.

Since 2012, Mallory has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches a popular course on Advocacy in International Arbitration. She is a member ROAP’s Global Steering Committee, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and has been recognized for her work by numerous publications, including Chambers, Global Arbitration Review, and The Legal 500.

In addition, Mallory is a member of the Delos Steering Committee.

Heather Clark is a Senior Associate at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada in Quebec City, Canada. Her experience as counsel and as tribunal secretary covers a wide range of legal systems and industry sectors, including construction, engineering, defence, electricity (nuclear and renewable energy), rail transportation, and pharmaceuticals. She was previously a Legal Adviser at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, an associate at White & Case in London, Paris, and New York, and an Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Heather obtained her JD from Osgoode Hall Law School and is qualified in Ontario, Quebec, New York, and England and Wales (Solicitor). She also holds degrees in engineering physics from Queen’s University and physics from The University of Auckland.

Minwoo Kim advises global corporations, industry associations, non-profit corporations, and governments on international trade policies, international law, and cross-border disputes. In his disputes practice, Minwoo has handled high-stakes commercial and treaty-based arbitrations. He has also represented sovereign states before the International Court of Justice and UNCLOS Annex VII tribunals. He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University School of Law (Arbitration). In his trade practice, he routinely helps global corporations, industry associations, and governments interpret and assess foreign regulatory practices under international trade agreements, including the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements, as well as preferential trade agreements. Prior to joining the firm, Minwoo was a judicial intern for Hon. Rudolph Contreras, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a legal intern at the Integrity Vice Presidency, the World Bank, and an intern at the National Assembly of Korea, the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee. Minwoo also maintains an active pro bono practice.

Simon is a partner in the Washington, DC office. He has significant experience in commercial arbitration and investment arbitrations, having represented clients across a wide range of sectors. Simon is recognised in Lexology Index as a global leader for Arbitration, which highlights that his “analytical skills, clear communication style, and legal expertise make him a strong practitioner” and that “he has the ability to articulate issues in a clear, concise manner”, noting “he is confident and sharp”. Simon has been recognised for International Arbitration in The Legal 500 US since 2020 and clients have described him as having “formidable analytical skills and great client service”. Simon co-authored the chapter “Fair and Equitable Treatment: Legitimate Expectations and Transparency” in ICSID’s 50th anniversary text Building International Investment Law: The First 50 Years of ICSID. He sits on the Banking and Financial Services Committee for the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). Simon received his LLM from Columbia Law School, where he studied as a Fulbright scholar. Before that, he received an LLB with first-class honours and a BA with first-class honours from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He speaks English and French, and is admitted to practice in Washington, DC, New York, and New Zealand.

Gaela Gehring Flores is Co-Chair of Hughes Hubbard's International Arbitration practice group in the Washington, D.C., office. Gaela has over 25 years of experience focused on representing both multinational corporations and sovereign states in international commercial and investment arbitrations. She has handled over 60 high-stakes international disputes before some of the best-known investment treaty arbitrations administered by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and the Permanent Court of Arbitration, as well as before private international commercial tribunals in arbitrations administered by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the American Arbitration Association’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution. Gaela also demonstrates a commitment to pro bono services through her work with immigrant and undocumented communities. Gaela advises clients in a variety of disputes in such fields as energy, intellectual property and artificial intelligence, natural resources, construction, government contracts, and transportation. She also advises clients on arbitral award enforcement, effective contractual dispute resolution clauses, dispute prevention, and strategy, and public international law issues, including discovery and foreign sovereign immunity, in international proceedings. Gaela’s practice is strengthened by her experience, native Spanish skills and bicultural background. Gaela is recognized as a leading practitioner of international arbitration in Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, Chambers USA, Global Arbitration Review, The Legal 500, Latin Lawyer 250, The Am Law 200, Euromoney, along with many others.

Laura Hardin is a Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group, based in Houston Texas. She is a globally recognized international arbitration expert witness has over thirty years of experience, having been appointed in numerous investment treaty and commercial arbitrations. Ms. Hardin is one of the most highly regarded experts and thought leaders in the Global Arbitration Review’s “Who’s Who” of International Arbitration Expert Witnesses and she also regularly appears on Who’s Who Legal’s List of Energy Experts.
Ms. Hardin has provided business valuation, damages quantification and forensic accounting services on international arbitration cases brought before ICC, ICDR, LCIA, SCC, ICSID, SIAC, PCA and ad hoc tribunals. She has worked on engagements involving the oil & gas, power generation, metals and mining, financial institutions, real estate and telecommunications industries. Ms. Hardin has worked for both Claimants and Respondents, and for investors as well as states or state-owned entities. Ms. Hardin has is fluent in Russian and has worked extensively on engagements involving entities or assets in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia. Ms. Hardin has also worked extensively on engagements involving Europe, South America including Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, and Ecuador, in North Africa, and in Asia.
Ms. Hardin has developed and taught classes on damage theory, valuation, expert discovery, expert report writing, and various international arbitration-related topics. This includes teaching a course on oil and gas valuation hosted by the University of Dundee’s Centre for Energy, Mining and Petroleum Law and Policy, and the development of the annual foundation course for all incoming Dispute Analysis Group senior consultants at PricewaterhouseCoopers

Dawn Yamane Hewett is a Partner in the Washington, DC and Tokyo offices of Quinn Emanuel. She draws on decades of experience in international affairs and as a former Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce to represent clients in international commercial and investor-state arbitration in a wide range of industries around the world. A Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese speaker, she maintains a particular focus on Asia and Latin America. She serves on the Court of Arbitration for the Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre (arbitrateAD) and the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA), and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A graduate of Yale Law School, Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Washington and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Dawn guest lectures on international arbitration at universities around the world.

Adrián is co-head of the Arbitration and Litigation practices of the firm, and co-leads its Energy and Natural Resources industry group. With close to twenty years of experience, he is described as “an extremely talented practitioner”, a “great advocate” and “excellent strategist” (Chambers & Partners). Adrián has worked in Mexico City, Washington D.C. and Beijing, and is licensed to practice law in both Mexico and New York. He has represented dozens of clients in commercial, energy, infrastructure and investor-state arbitrations, and is experienced in advocating under a variety of domestic and international arbitration rules such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association - International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Centro de Arbitraje de México (Mexican Arbitration Center, CAM), the Cámara Nacional de Comercio (National Chamber Commerce - CANACO), and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the ICSID Additional Facility. He has also appeared as an arbitrator in commercial, construction and energy disputes, and has acted as an expert on Mexican law before U.S. Courts. His experience as a litigator covers commercial, administrative and constitutional disputes, as well as class action and transnational disputes. The primary industries in which he has been involved include automotive, aeronautics, consumer goods, agribusiness and biosafety, information technology, oil and gas, electricity and infrastructure. Adrián has unparalleled experience of litigating energy and construction disputes, and regularly participates in arbitration and litigation proceedings relating to relevant contracts. These have included: PPAs relating to various types of power plants (including combined cycle, hydroelectric, wind and photovoltaic plants); EPC contracts over a broad range of projects; energy supply contracts; interconnection contracts; gas storage and liquefaction contracts; gas pipeline construction contracts; easements over transmission lines; oil platform installation contracts; among others. He has also represented clients in complex construction disputes, with representative matters including disputes arising from the execution of civil and electromechanical works for the first automated maritime terminal in Latin America; the first bascule bridge in Mexico; the largest wind project in Latin America; as well as various photovoltaic and wind projects. In addition, he has participated in dozens of cases against the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transport, and various port administrators.

Hugh has more than 12 years of experience in dedicated arbitration counsel work. He has represented clients in high-value and complex international and domestic arbitrations in a range of industry sectors, including telecommunications, mining, construction, sports and entertainment, insurance, logistics, IT and real property, as well as under ad hoc and institutional rules including the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICDR, AAA, VanIAC, DIAC, and ADRIC. Hugh also acts as counsel for athletes and sports organizations in sports-related disputes before the SDRCC and in other sports-related forums. In 2021, Who's Who Legal: Arbitration named him one of ten "Most Highly Regarded" partners under 45 in the Americas. In 2022, he was named as one of Canada's leading lawyers under 40 by Lexpert. As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), Hugh has acted as a sole arbitrator in arbitrations involving procurement and real property disputes, as well as the discipline chair and appeals officer for certain sports associations.

Neal Mizrahi is an expert in business valuation and the quantification of economic damages in complex disputes. He has practiced in these areas for 17 years and has prepared numerous reports relied upon by courts and tribunals globally. He has extensive testifying experience and has been ranked as a top expert in Canada and globally by Who’s Who Legal since 2014.

He holds the Chartered Professional Accountant (Chartered Accountant) and Chartered Business Valuator designations.

Mr. Mizrahi has provided services to clients in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has testified in international arbitration proceedings in the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the International Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Federal Court of Canada, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta.

Mr. Mizrahi has led and acted as expert in engagements in resource and extractive industries (i.e. oil and gas, mining and minerals), construction, manufacturing, services, and software, and other sectors. He has worked on matters involving expropriation, breach of contract, and has significant experience with post-acquisition disputes.

Mr. Mizrahi has significant experience in the context of mergers and acquisitions. He has acted as a valuator in the context of transactions. For instance, he recently provided a fairness opinion for a transaction involving a large publicly listed oil and gas company. He has been involved in due diligence, including as an advisor to parties and underwriters of Representation and Warranties insurance. He has also been retained by the Competition Bureau of Canada to provide analyses on post‐acquisition efficiencies resulting from proposed mergers.

He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Schulich School of Business at York University and the Rotman School of Management, where he taught courses in accounting, valuation at the undergraduate and graduate levels for nearly a decade.

Mr. Mizrahi is consistently ranked in the Global Arbitration Review’s The International Who’s Who of Arbitration, which lists the most highly regarded experts globally, in each year from 2014 to 2022 and as a “Thought Leader.” Separately, in Canada, among the list of 14, he was one of two “Most Highly Regarded” experts in 2020 and 2021.

In addition, he was listed as a top Construction Expert Witness in Canada.

Prior to joining EY, Mr. Mizrahi led the Canadian valuation and damage quantification practice of a large consulting firm.

Danielle Morris is a partner in WilmerHale’s Washington DC office with 15 years of experience advising clients on all aspects of international arbitration. Her practice spans both private and public international law, with a focus on investor-State arbitration. She has worked on a range of commercial and investment arbitrations, both institutional and ad hoc, from the pre-dispute and notice of dispute stage through merits submissions and hearings through to set-aside and enforcement. She also assists clients with investment planning and advises on how to avoid or amicably resolve disputes outside the arbitration process.

Danielle has taught both international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has also lectured at Cambridge University, Duke University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, American University’s Washington College of Law, and University of Michigan Law School. She speaks and publishes regularly on issues relevant to investment arbitration and investment planning.

Gisela Paris is a partner in the firm's International Arbitration and Litigation Practice. Her practice focuses primarily on matters related to the representation of sovereign states in foreign investment disputes.

She has represented clients in arbitrations before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), initiated under Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and in commercial arbitrations. Recently, in the 2021 Legal 500 - Latin America - International Firms in International Arbitration publication, Gisela is recognized for having "played a key role in the growth of the Latin American footprint of the practice."

Gisela has experience in both public and private sectors. She previously worked as an attorney at leading international law firms in New York and Buenos Aires, Argentina and as legal advisor to the Secretariat of Industry, Commerce and Small and Medium Enterprises of the Argentine Ministry of Economy.

John V.H. Pierce is a partner and Global Co-Chair of the International Arbitration practice at Latham & Watkins LLP where he divides his time between the firm’s New York and Paris offices. Mr. Pierce represents a global client base from a wide variety of industries and business sectors in high-stakes, complex international arbitration matters in venues around the world. With more than 20 years of experience representing clients in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations seated in both common and civil law jurisdictions, Mr. Pierce has extensive experience with international arbitral procedure and advocacy. He has been involved as lead counsel or arbitrator in arbitrations pending before all major arbitral institutions and under a wide variety of procedural and substantive laws. Mr. Pierce is regularly recognized as a “Thought Leader” in international arbitration by Who’s Who Legal which describes him as a “versatile” lawyer with an “outstanding legal mind and critical thinking skills” who “‘performs brilliantly’ in venues throughout the world.” Mr. Pierce has also been described by clients and peers in Chambers USA and Chambers Global as “outstanding,” “an exceptional advocate,” and a “formidable opponent.” Mr. Pierce was awarded the International Law Office 2020 Client Choice Award for Arbitration in the United States in both 2016 and 2020. In the research for that award, clients noted Mr. Pierce’s “excellent advocacy skills before tribunals” and described his “professional preparation of each submission and the hearing itself” as “phenomenal.” In addition to his counsel work, Mr. Pierce regularly serves as an arbitrator in international disputes. Mr. Pierce serves on the Executive Committee of the New York International Arbitration Center and is Co-Chair of its Committee on Board Relations. He is a co-editor of Global Arbitration Review’s Guide to IP Arbitration (2021) and a co-author of International Commercial Arbitration in New York (2d ed. Oxford Press 2016). Mr. Pierce is an honors graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, and the Georgetown Law Center. He was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

With extensive experience in international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration, Vasuda’s global experience helps turn clients’ cross-jurisdictional challenges into opportunities.

Vasuda Sinha is a partner in our National Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. Her practice is focused on complex commercial and investment arbitrations and litigation, as well as cross-border and jurisdictional disputes.

Vasuda’s extensive experience and appearances as counsel before various international arbitral tribunals and courts, including SCC, ICC, UNCITRAL and ICSID tribunals and the Supreme Court of Canada, is particularly sought-after by clients with global operations and investments during periods of geopolitical and market volatility. She has represented clients on a broad variety of matters including those related to insolvency and investment treaty violations involving a variety of industries and jurisdictions.

Prior to joining the firm, Vasuda practiced for nearly a decade with a leading international law firm in Paris, France and spent a year in various chambers in London as a Fox Scholar. She also previously practised for five years with an international firm in its Toronto office, giving her a unique sense of the opportunities and challenges encountered by clients in Canada and abroad.

Active within the legal industry, Vasuda is a frequent presenter and author on timely legal topics such as damages in investment arbitration, human rights, and disputes in emerging technologies. She is also a strong supporter of diversity in the profession and has been a formal and informal mentor to young lawyers at the start of their career.

Vasuda is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (Canada) and Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners, and is called to the bars in Ontario and Paris, France. She speaks English, Hindi and French.