IN CONVERSATION WITH JACOMIJN VAN HAERSOLTE-VAN HOF 19
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 . . .
JACOMIJN VAN HAERSOLTE-VAN HOF, LONDON COURT OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION As of 1 July 2014, Jackie van Haersolte-van Hof has become Director General of the LCIA. Previously, she practised as a counsel and arbitrator in The Hague, at her GAR 100 boutique HaersolteHof. She continues to follow through on cases where she is sitting as arbitrator until their conclusion. She set up HaersolteHof in 2008 after three years as of counsel in the international arbitration group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Amsterdam. She was previouslywith Amsterdam firmDe BrauwBlackstoneWestbroke from2000 to 2004, and before that Loeff Claeys Verbeke in Rotterdam, which she joined on her qualification in 1992. She has sat as arbitrator in cases under the ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules, as well as those of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI), onwhose supervisory board she sits. She has also arbitrated cases at the Royal Dutch Grain and Feed Trade Association and the Institute of Transport andMaritime Arbitration, both based in the Netherlands. She is on the ICSID roster of arbitrators. She was also involved in setting up the arbitral process for the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich, which analysed claims fromHolocaust survivors over dormant accounts in Swiss banks. In addition to her arbitration practice, she is a lecturer in international arbitration at VU University Amsterdamand a member of GAR’s editorial board. Her 1992 PhD thesis on the application of the UNCITRAL rules by Iran-US Claims Tribunal was one of the first books to be published on the subject.
DE VIK A KHANNA , CLYDE & CO
Devika is a partner in Clyde&Co’s international arbitration team, based in London. Her arbitration experience includes cases for both private and state parties under the auspices of a variety of rules (AAA, ICC, ICSID, LCIA and UNCITRAL). Devika has experience in the energy, construction, telecoms and pharmaceutical sectors, advisingmulti-national companies on the resolution of complex cross-border disputes. She has particular experience of representing clients in gas price reviewarbitrations, in relation to production sharing agreement disputes and on bilateral investment treaty planning. Devika is an English-qualified solicitor-advocate (Higher Rights) and has been named as a “Rising Star” in International Lawby Super Lawyers 2013 (Thomson Reuters). Before joining the firm, she spent five years as part of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s international arbitration group and before that, five years in Slaughter andMay’s dispute resolution group. Devika is a regular contributor to legal journals and speaker at conferences. She speaks English French, Italian and Greek.
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