George Yates

George Yates

George is a Franco American lawyer who has practiced international law more than 40 years at Coudert Brothers and Orrick. He is qualified and has lived and practiced in the US (NY and California), France (Paris), England (London) and Portugal (Lisbon). Trained as a US and French lawyer, he is an authority on disputes related to corporate law and cross border transactions.

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Theodore J. Folkman

Theodore J. Folkman

Theodore J. Folkman, a Boston lawyer, has twenty years of experience in civil and commercial litigation and arbitration and serves as a commercial arbitrator. He is widely regarded for his expertise in private international law and international judicial assistance.

Ted is experienced in complex civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, with a special emphasis in cross-border disputes, US judicial assistance in aid of proceedings abroad, and foreign sovereign immunity.

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Miguel Salas

Miguel Salas

Miguel Salas is a lawyer with offices in Seville, Spain. He is a founding partner of Salas y Donaire, a firm of lawyers and economists that operates throughout Spain since 1994.

Miguel has extensive practice experience representing clients before the Spanish courts with jurisdiction over a number of areas of law.

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Matheus Puppe

Matheus Puppe

Matheus has considerable experience in cross border transactions (both from the business and legal standpoints), particularly  in Germany and Brazil, and is well qualified to assist clients in international arbitration and litigation. Matheus has worked in a number of international and domestic arbitration matters, in Germany and Brazil.

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Luis Bergolla

Luis Bergolla

Luis Bergolla* is a lawyer qualified in the United States (NY, DC, and AZ) as well as in Venezuela and Spain. He is also a doctoral candidate at Stanford Law School (SLS) and teaches law at the University of Arizona.

*Not admitted in California

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Kathryn (Lee) Boyd

Kathryn (Lee) Boyd

Kathryn (Lee) Boyd is experienced in international litigation and arbitration with more than 25 years of experience handling matters involving complex commercial matters, foreign sovereign litigation.

Among other matters, Lee has successfully represented a global entertainment and sports company against a FTSE 100 online gaming company in international arbitration; successfully represented U.S. terrorism hijacking victims in international arbitration against foreign nationals for treaty award money granted in $100 million + U.S.-Libya claims settlement; and successfully represented investors in several international arbitrations.

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João Nuno Frazão

João Nuno Frazão

João Nuno Frazão is a lawyer qualified in Portugal, admitted to the Portuguese Bar Assocation in 2016.  João is a PhD candidate at Nova School of Law, with research focused on Space Law, International Law and European Law.

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Kyriaki Noussia

Kyriaki Noussia

Dr. Kyriaki Noussia is a Greek Lawyer, an Arbitrator and an Academic (Senior Lecturer in Law (Law School, University of Exeter, UK). She is a admitted to the Athens Bar (Greece) and licensed to appear in front of the Greek Supreme Court (Areos Pagos) and the Greek Conseil d’ Etat (Supreme Administrative Court), (Symvoulio tes Epikrateas). She has extensive experience in dispute resolution and arbitration and has regularly advised and acted on matters in various areas of law, most notably insurance, reinsurance, shipping, energy, environmental, construction and investment law. Later acquired expertise includes the area of Law and Technology, such as issues relating to robotics and the law, the ethics of AI and the law, the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its application in various industries and sectors as well as cybersecurity issues.  

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Marta Faria Carter

Marta Faria Carter

Marta Faria Carter, LLB, AKC, is a lawyer registered with the Portuguese Bar Association.  Having been awarded an LLB Hons by King’s College London in 2013, she relocated to Portugal in 2016 where she undertook the full Bar Training and subsequently registered with the Portuguese Bar Association.

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Duarte Henriques

Duarte Henriques

Duarte is a Portuguese lawyer. He is ranked as Thought Leader in Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal and recommended by “WWL” Arbitration 2019 as a “go-to lawyer in Portugal, standing out for his extensive knowledge of commercial and investment treaty disputes.”

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Katie Hyman

Katie Hyman

Katie Hyman is dual-qualified as an English solicitor and New York attorney and is admitted as a special legal consultant in the District of Columbia. She is widely experienced in international dispute resolution, including multijurisdictional, offshore and investor-state matters. 

Katie represents a variety of clients, including in the energy and telecoms industries, in high-value, complex international commercial arbitration proceedings under the major arbitral rules all over the world, as well as in investor-state arbitrations. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and accepts arbitrator appointments in addition to her practice as counsel.

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