ITA Arbitration Report Roundtable

Overview

Schedule and Speakers

14:30 - Welcome and Introduction

14:35 - 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

• Diora Ziyaeva, Dentons
• Valentine Chessa, MCL Arbitration
• Nataliya Barysheva, MCL Arbitration
• Yoshie Concha Takeshita, MCL Arbitration

15:30 - 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.

Dr. Diora Ziyaeva
Dentons

Dr. Diora Ziyaeva is a Partner in the Firm's Commercial Litigation group and US Region Co-Lead in Mining and Natural Resources. Her main areas of practice include investment treaty arbitration, international commercial arbitration, complex commercial litigation and public international law.

Licensed in New York and Uzbekistan and fluent in seven languages, Diora is recognized within the legal community as one of the top international lawyers of her generation. She sits as arbitrator and serves as counsel in a broad range of international matters and is a Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

Over the course of her career, Diora has represented States, corporations, and individuals in disputes under the rules of all the major arbitral institutions, as well as several regional institutions. Diora advises parties in international litigations involving proceedings in foreign and domestic courts, including the United States Supreme Court. She also advises governments, investment firms and asset managers about mitigating risks, evaluating investments in international claims and arbitration awards.

In addition to her extensive disputes work, Diora maintains an active pro bono practice, representing refugee and immigrant children who were separated from a parent at the U.S.-Mexico border, spearheads strategy for ESG traceability and transparency in the cotton industry in Uzbekistan, provided advice regarding transitional justice efforts in Libya, the prosecution of human-rights abuses in Iraq, and investigations into atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar.

Valentine Chessa
MCL Arbitration

Valentine Chessa is a founding Partner in the Paris office of MCL arbitration.

Valentine has extensive experience in international arbitration. She has been involved as counsel in many complex arbitration cases before the main arbitration institutions in a wide range of industry sectors, including energy and construction.

Valentine regularly serves as arbitrator and has decided cases under numerous arbitration rules, in several jurisdictions and applicable laws, in English, French and Italian.

Valentine also assists clients in enforcement and set-aside proceedings before French Courts.

Valentine worked in a leading international law firm for more than ten years and at the ICC International Court of Arbitration where she supervised hundreds of arbitration proceedings with parties from all over the world in virtually all commercial sectors.

Valentine holds law degrees from Paris II University and Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg. She is admitted to the Paris Bar.

Nataliya Barysheva
MCL Arbitration

Avocat au Barreau de Paris, Nataliya Barysheva joined Mourre, Chessa, Le Lay in October 2021. She has extensive expertise in international arbitration and represents clients in international arbitrations before various arbitration institutions (ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, VIAC). She advises on disputes in different sectors, such as construction, oil&gas, renewable energy, mining, and international trade. Nataliya also assists clients in relation to litigation concerning the recognition, enforcement and annulment of arbitral awards. She also regularly acts as assistant to arbitral tribunals in commercial and investment arbitration cases.

Nataliya Barysheva graduated from the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in international business law. She also holds an LL.M from Queen Mary University of London in International Dispute Resolution and Economic Law.

Nataliya started her career as a digital legal content editor within the world’s largest legal publishing company in 2010. She is also an appointed member of the College of Legal Terminology and Neology Experts at the French Ministry of Justice since 2013. From 2015 to 2021, Nataliya practiced within a renowned French-Italian law firm.

A Russian and French national, Nataliya works in English, French, Italian and Russian and also has some knowledge of Spanish.

Nataliya is admitted to the Paris bar and is registered as a foreign lawyer in the Russian Federation.

Yoshie Concha Takeshita
MCL Arbitration

Yoshie is an Associate at MCL Arbitration since June 2023. She has more than 10 years of practice in Administrative Law, Public Law, Public Procurement, Construction Law, Government Control, Civil and Commercial Law, as well as Dispute Prevention and Resolution.

Yoshie has provided strategic advice during the execution of infrastructure and construction projects, provision of services and supply of goods. In Dispute Resolution, she has advised and represented clients in institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings, in different jurisdictions and sectors, including construction, energy, supply, and implementation of software and new technologies, among others. She has also acted on behalf of clients in conciliations and negotiations.

Yoshie has worked in multiple cases as administrative secretary and assistant to arbitrators, including emergency arbitrations (ICC, ICSID, CAM, CEA, CCL, PUCP, SNA-OSCE, Ad Hoc).

Yoshie has provided advice to private sector clients for their entry and positioning in the Peruvian market, as well as in public biddings and execution of construction, services, and supply contracts. As part of her services, Yoshie has represented clients before administrative authorities in various sectors. She has also advised Peruvian public entities on government contracts under various legal regimes.

Yoshie was the first intern of MGC Arbitration. Prior to joining our firm, Yoshie was a Mid-Level Associate at Estudio Echecopar (Lima, Peru), member firm of Baker & McKenzie International.

Yoshie holds a law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP (Lima, Peru) and a LL.M. in Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement from Sciences Po Law School (Paris, France).

She is admitted to the Lima Bar and a Consultant Juridique Étranger with the Paris Bar.

Yoshie is bilingual in Spanish and English, and has a working knowledge of French.

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