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LOUISE BARRINGTON Louise Barrington is a chartered arbitrator and accredited mediator, legally qualified in Ontario, New York and England. Amulticultural Canadian, she also holds a British passport. Ms Barrington is principal of Aculex Transnational Inc. She frequently acts as sole arbitrator in “smaller” arbitration cases (under USD 10million). She also lends her expertise to the legal profession, both by teaching and by discreetly advising law firms on international arbitration practice. She has taught international, commercial and arbitration lawat University of Ottawa, King’s College London, City University of Hong Kong, LaTrobe inMelbourne and Georgetown inWashington. She has arbitrated or advocated in cases under ICC, HKIAC and UNCITRAL Rules, including wrongful dismissal, international sales, banking, licensing, construction and shareholder disputes. Ms Barrington established ICC Asia in Hong Kong, the first-ever regional office of the International Chamber of Commerce. In that role she acted as an arbitration resource for businesses fromPakistan to New Zealand. She founded and continues to direct the annual Vis East International ArbitrationMoot (www.cisgmoot.org) and is the founder and honorary president of ArbitralWomen (www.arbitralwomen.org). She is active in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, having held elected office for years in Asia, and currently serves on the Education Committee in London. She is amember of ICC’s arbitration committees in Canada and Hong Kong, participates regularly in the Paris Commissionmeeting and chaired its Small Claims Guidelines Committee. Ms Barrington speaks English and French fluently, plus conversational Spanish and a little German andMandarin.
ALEC EMMERSON, CLYDE & CO Alecmoved into the disputes sector on joining Clyde&Co in 1977, having previously spent five years handling corporate insolvencies. Hemanaged the Hong Kong office from1984 onwards, acting on headline cases such as the Carrian fraud andmany ‘phantom’ ship frauds. Alec also handled numerous arbitrations, investment disputes, disaster and commercial contract litigation, andmost areas of insurance dispute resolution. He returned to London in 1996, and thenmoved to the Dubai office in 1999 as Head of the Dispute Resolution Group. In 2008, Alec retired from the partnership to work as an independent arbitrator, and remains with the firmas a consultant acting for clients in complex disputes (including ADCCAC, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, ICC, LCIA, LMMA, SCMA&SIACdisputes). He sits as an arbitrator in awide range of disputes under most of these institutions’ rules as well as in UNCITRAL and other ad hoc arbitrations. He has recently been appointed as amember of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). Alec has been listed as a leading individual in the International Who’sWho of Commercial Arbitration since 2009. ARBITRALWOMEN ArbitralWomen began informally 20 years ago as an ad hoc network and Yahoo! chat room, andwas formally constituted ten years ago as a non-profit company under French law. Its 400members and 1000 associates from43 countries organize events around the world to bring women together, and to help themgrow their profiles inwhat was until recently an almost entirelymale field. Although the organisation’smembership is all female, its events are usually open tomen. In addition to providing a communication network via its website and newsletter, ArbitralWomen provides rolemodels, and assists young women through itsmentorship programme which pairs newer entrants with experienced practitioners. Each year the organization assists law school teams with at least 50%women members to attend and compete in the VisMoot and the Vis East Moot.
VIS E A ST INTERNATIONAL COMMER CIAL ARBITRATION MOOT
The Vis East Moot is an international moot court competition held annually in Hong Kong, China attractingmore than 100 law schools fromaround the world. The goal of theMoot is to foster the study of international commercial lawand arbitration and to encourage the resolution of international business disputes by arbitration.
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