IN CONVERSATION WITH MICHAEL KUPER SC 07
W I T H T H A NK S T O T HE C ON T R I BU T OR S OF T HI S E XCH A NGE . . .
DANIEL LE ROUX, CLYDE & CO Daniel is a Partner based in Clyde&Co’s Johannesburg office. He specialises in all aspects of insurance lawwith particular emphasis on aviation, product liability, professional indemnity, financial lines, D&O and construction and engineering claims. Daniel attended the University of Pretoriawhere he obtained his B Proc andwas admitted as an attorney in 1983. He advises on liability and coverage disputes and is recognised as a leading expert in Dispute Resolution and Insurance. Chambers Global 2015 notes that Daniel is “one of the best insurance litigators in town”, and clients appreciate that he is “always available andwilling to assist.” Daniel has also recently been included in The Best Lawyers in South Africa 2015. NICOL A VINOVRŠKI, CLYDE & CO Nicola is a Legal Director based in Clyde&Co’s London office. She represents diverse clients on awide range of complex, multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration. Nicolaworks on commercial disputes with a particular focus on financial services litigation and international arbitration. She advises on awide range of complex, multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration. Her practice covers contentious matters for financial institutions, investment managers, private equity houses, high net worth individuals and corporate clients based in the UK, Europe, India, the US and elsewhere. Nicola commencedwork at Clyde&Co in 2007, after having practised in Australia.
MICHAEL DAVID KUPER SC BA (HONS.) LL.B (RAND)
Michael is a senior South African commercial advocate (barrister) and arbitrator in practice at the Johannesburg Bar (Society of AdvocatesWitwatersrand). He has served as chairman of the Johannesburg Bar; Vice-Chairman of the General Council of the Bar, and as an acting judge of the High Court of South Africa on various occasions. His work coversmercantile, corporate, banking, mining and construction disputes and hemaintains an active arbitration practice. Michael served as convenor of the joint venture between the legal and accounting professions and the South African Chamber of Business to establish the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA), for the purpose of providing administered arbitration andmediation in the southern African region and for the establishment of an arbitral regime consistent with the UNCITRALmodel law (1996). He is the chairman of AFSA and executivemember of Africa ADR, a newly established African regional arbitration administering authority. He is amember of the AFSA Panel of Arbitrators for commercial, construction, mining and bankingmatters and of the Hainan Arbitration Commission. Michael has acted as counsel or as sole arbitrator, tribunal member or tribunal chairman in South African arbitrations; in various cross-border arbitrations in the southern African region and in London, Mauritius, Nigeria, Paris and the USA. He served as country rapporteur for the ICC Commission on Arbitration in 2008. He was formerly Hon. Professor in the Department of Procedural Law, Faculty of LawUniversity of Pretoria, and Disciplinary Commissioner for Cricket South Africa.
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