ITA Reporters Roundtable

Overview

Schedule and Speakers

09:00 - Welcome and Introduction

09:05 - Panel Discussion

Moderators

• Monique Sasson, Co-Managing Editor, ITA Arbitration Report; Arbitra
• Crina Baltag, Co-Managing Editor, ITA Arbitration Report; Professor in International Arbitration, Stockholm University

Panelists

• Damian Sturzaker, Marque Lawyers (https://www.marquelawyers.com.au/theteam/damian-sturzaker)
• Maria Beatrice Deli, DeliSasson (https://delisasson.com/maria-beatrice-deli/)
• Nicholas Fletcher KC, 4 New Square Chambers (https://www.4newsquare.com/profile/nicholas-fletcher-kc/)

10:30 - Adjourn

About the Speakers

Dr. Crina Baltag
Co-Managing Editor, ITA Arbitration Report
Professor in International Arbitration
Stockholm University

Dr Crina Baltag is Professor Assoc (Docent) in International Arbitration Law at Stockholm University and qualified attorney-at-law, with over twenty years of extensive practice in various aspects on international dispute resolution, private and public international law. Crina is the academic director of the LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration Law at Stockholm University and member of the Board of the SCC Arbitration Institute. Crina is the chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration Academic Council.

Crina has been appointed as arbitrator in numerous arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, SCC, FAI, VIAC, CAM-CCBC etc., and has acted as expert and counsel in various international commercial and investment arbitrations. Crina is the Director of the Oxford Diploma Course on International Commercial Arbitration of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and she is a member of the Education and Training Reform Advisory Group of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Crina has been awarded the Prize for the Contribution to the Development of the Romanian Arbitration Law and Practice by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania in October 2023.

Crina publishes extensively on commercial and investment arbitration current topics. Crina is the managing editor of Kluwer Arbitration Blog, and member of editorial boards of prestigious journals and book series in the field, including of the Journal of International Arbitration.

Monique Sasson
Co-Managing Editor, ITA Arbitration Report
Arbitra

Monique Sasson has more than twenty years of experience in analyzing international disputes. She is qualified as a New York attorney, an English solicitor, and an Italian avvocato, and she has worked at three major law firms in London, Milan, and Rome. Monique has particular expertise in international investment law. She holds a Ph.D. in international law from Cambridge University, where she was a student of James Crawford.

Damian Sturzaker
Marque Lawyers

One of Australia's Top Lawyers, according to the AFR, in both litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Damian handles this accolade with his customary modesty but will admit if pressed that he has run some of the most complex pieces of cross-border litigation that ever touched these shores.

Whether it's a dodgy crane in Israel, a fleet of helicopters in the US, a telco dispute in Afghanistan or the enforcement of a Chinese judgment in Moldova, Damian is the lawyer for all time zones. More importantly, in defiance of all of our predictions, he still hasn't lost his iPhone.

Famed in the office for his Old Man Sayings and ever in a rush for the Manly ferry, Damian is the litigator God would have invented if He'd thought that at all a good idea.

Maria Beatrice Deli
DeliSasson

Maria Beatrice Deli is Professor of International Law currently serving at the Universitas Mercatorum in Rome.

In 2011 Maria Beatrice was appointed Secretary General of the Italian Association for Arbitration (AIA) and from 2013 to 2021 was Secretary General of the Italian National Committee of ICC-ICC Italy.

From 2016 to March 2021 she was Member of the Arbitral Council of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration.

She is co-founder of ArbIt (Italian forum on arbitration and ADR) and she is responsible of the editorial board of the Rivista dell’Arbitrato and Diritto del Commercio Internazionale. She is co-Director of the Certificate in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration.
She is founding partner of the law firm DeliSasson, based in Rome and Milan, focusing on international commercial contracts and public and private international law matters..

Nicholas Fletcher KC
4 New Square Chambers

Ranked as a “Leading Individual” in International Arbitration by The Legal 500, Chambers and Who’s Who Legal, Nic is described as “confident and knowledgeable” and “praised for his ability to stay on top of the detail“. Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2014 (now King’s Counsel), he has been active in the arbitration of international commercial disputes for 40 years. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales and in New York.

Having trained at the Bar, Nic practised for several years at Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens in New York before joining Clifford Chance, where he became a partner in the firm’s highly-ranked international arbitration practice. In 2009, he took over as Head of International Arbitration at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, developing and leading that firm’s international arbitration practice.

Nic has experience of arbitrations conducted under a wide variety of institutional and procedural rules. He has served extensively as chair and as sole arbitrator, as well as a party-nominated arbitrator. Nic has handled numerous LCIA and ICC disputes, as well as matters under the rules of the AAA, SIAC, SCC, DIFC and the DIAC. He has also acted as arbitrator on an ad hoc basis under the UNCITRAL Rules and the Arbitration Act, 1996. He has dealt as both arbitrator and counsel with cases involving a wide range of national laws, including those of England, New York, France, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and the UAE. He has particular experience of acting as arbitrator in complex and high value energy disputes, corporate investment, joint venture and financing disputes, life sciences and offshore engineering and technology and construction matters. Nic has also been appointed to Sports Resolutions’ Legal Arbitrator Panel.

Nic is the reporter for England & Wales for the Institute of Transnational Arbitration and Consultant Editor of a Commentary on the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (OUP). He is a member of the ICC Commission and the ICC’s Task Force on the New York Convention. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy.

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