Description

The International Arbitration Centre (“IAC”) at the AIFC provides an independent, economical and expeditious alternative to court litigation, operating to the highest international standards to resolve civil and commercial disputes in the AIFC. The IAC has its own panel of outstanding international arbitrators and mediators who are greatly experienced, independent, impartial and of the highest integrity. The IAC offers parties maximum choice and flexibility in choosing the rules and procedures they wish to use to resolve their disputes at the IAC.

The IAC provides fundholding for arbitrators’ fees and the holding and disbursing of advances paid to cover the reasonable costs of the IAC’s own services and facilities. The IAC is an appointment authority, offering the appointment of arbitrators and mediators from its panel, for arbitrations and mediations conducted at the IAC or elsewhere.

Arbitration awards of the IAC are enforceable in the Republic of Kazakhstan as Orders of the AIFC Court, supported by a robust enforcement system. They are also enforceable internationally under the New York Convention.

About The Speaker

Barbara Dohmann QC has been one of the UK’s leading commercial barristers and an international arbitrator for many years. She began practice at the Bar of England and Wales in 1973 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1987. She is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration. She has been appointed as arbitrator at the LCIA, at the London Metal Exchange (where she is an Arbitration and Arbitration Appeals Panel member), at the Paris International Chamber of Commerce, and at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. She is a CEDR accredited Mediator. Her arbitration experience includes international joint ventures, metal trading, oil and gas trading, North Sea oil drilling contracts, the true construction of bare boat charters, alleged breaches of charter parties, property. She has extensive experience of appearing before foreign courts in very large commercial disputes, including in Bermuda, Gibraltar, Singapore, Brunei.

Christopher Campbell-Holt has many years of legal experience gained while living and working in the UK, the US, the Middle East, and Eurasia. He was the Registrar at the international financial centre commercial court and alternative dispute resolution centre in Qatar under the Presidency of Lord Woolf. He also worked at international and regional law firms and practiced broad international commercial law and dispute resolution. He is an Honorary Professor at the M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University, a leading Kazakhstan law school. He is a member of the AIFC Legal Advisory Council and the AIFC Academic Council. He is a member of the Bar of New York State, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and is a CEDR accredited mediator.

Who Should Attend

Academics, banking lawyers, in-house bank counsel, policymakers