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Torsten is a Mediator and Counsel and Former Associate General Counsel at Caterpillar SARL.

Emma is a dispute resolution lawyer based in London. Emma deals with a wide variety of shipping and energy disputes. 

Emma’s contentious experience includes, amongst other things, mediation, international arbitration (LCIA and LMAA) and Commercial Court claims. 

Emma also advises on non-contentious matters including amongst others, sanctions, coordinating and advising on multi-jurisdictional legal regulatory reviews and reviewing agreements and clauses in financing and acquisition transactions.

Stefano Catelani read law at the University of  Rome and, after a two-year traineeship within a law firm in Florence, he took the Bar Exam and qualified as an avvocato in Italy. He then worked as an in-house counsel for a major Italian pharmaceutical company for five years, and he subsequently joined the legal department of DuPont de Nemours, a multinational chemical company. At DuPont, he has advised several subsidiaries and various business units in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He was initially based in Italy and then he was called at the European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He then moved to the External Affairs department of Dupont where he worked as Director Governmental Affairs (Europe) both in Brussels and Geneva, and he eventually returned to the Legal department.

Stefano was until recently working as General Counsel for the DuPont Safety & Construction Business Unit within the Europe, Middle East and Africa Region.  He was responsible for legal compliance of the business units in these regions and he coordinated the work of his colleagues based in the Middle East, Africa and Black Sea countries on general corporate matters.

His most recent practice focused on compliance, general corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, including divestitures and joint ventures. In addition, he dealt with all aspects of conflicts management and disputes settlement.

He is a former President and currently board member of the Geneva based Association of International Business lawyers (AIBL), and he is an active member in several other professional and trade associations including being a member of the European Advisory Board of the New York based Conflict Prevention and Resolution International Institute.

He recently formed his own firm, Calimala Legal, in Geneva where is also active as Adjunct Professor on International Business Law at Webster University in addition to giving lectures on the same subject at various other Universities. Stefano is a current member of CPR's European Advisory Board.

Amanda J. Lee is a Consultant at Costigan King, London and an arbitrator trading as LML Arbitration. Amanda specialises in international and domestic dispute resolution, with particular expertise in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and Privy Council appellate procedure. She is a Solicitor-Advocate (Civil) and is admitted to the Bars of New York and the U.S. Supreme Court.  

Amanda advises clients on all aspects of commercial litigation and multiple forms of ADR, including construction adjudication, international and domestic arbitration, expert determination, mediation, and ombudsman services. She has served as Privy Council Representative in appeals arising from numerous Caribbean jurisdictions, including Anguilla, Bermuda, and the Turks & Caicos Islands.

Amanda is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and regularly sits as an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations (both ad hoc and pursuant to institutional rules). She has served as sole or party-nominated arbitrator on 25+ occasions to date in arbitral proceedings seated in and/or subject to the laws of numerous jurisdictions, including England, New York, Qatar and Switzerland.

Amanda is recognised as a Future Leader in Arbitration by Lexology Index and by Lawdragon as one of 500 Leading Global Litigators. She received the CPR Institute’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Diversity in ADR in 2022.

Sara is an associate based in Orrick's London and Paris offices. She was originally trained in the US and specializes in aviation, defense, energy & infrastructure and construction projects, both in commercial and investment arbitration. Sara represents clients across the United States, Europe and Asia and has experience handling disputes governed by French, Swiss, Iranian, and US (Maryland, New York, Washington, Illinois) law in most of the major arbitral forums, including the ICC, HKIAC, ICSID, and the Swiss Arbitration Centre.

Before joining Orrick, Sara gained valuable experience working in the Emerging Companies department of another major international law firm in New York City. She also represented the City of New York in family court, prosecuting child abuse and neglect cases for two years.

Rutger is a senior associate and Solicitor Advocate in the international arbitration practice.

He specialises in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration and has acted in arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, WIPO and SIAC rules. Rutger is currently based in our London office, having also spent time on secondment with the international arbitration group in Hong Kong and in a disputes and corporate governance role at De Beers. 

Rutger is an Associate Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, where he teaches the module Strategic Decision Making for Lawyers in the LLM and Law & Finance programmes. He is also a member of our Decision Analysis team and has extensive experience building decision analysis models to help clients quantify, visualise and better understand the legal risks they are facing.

Rutger is a member of the Y-ADR Steering Committee of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR).

Rutger holds an LLB (Honours) in International and European Law from the University of Groningen and an LLM (Distinction) in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary University of London. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Juan Pena is Senior Managing Counsel at Visa Inc. in the Regulatory Legal team focusing on regulatory compliance across the Europe region. He joined Visa in 2017 as a Senior Counsel in the Corporate legal team focusing on acquisitions, ventures and strategic projects. He started his professional career at JP Morgan Chase in the Asset Management team as a Banker and his legal career at Linklaters in the General Corporate and Capital Market teams in New York, London and Paris. He volunteers at the Islington Legal Advice Centre, the oldest Legal clinic in the UK. He is qualified in New York and England & Wales. 

Darren Pouliot is a Senior Associate in the International Arbitration group who brings a trial-oriented focus to his matters. Darren has significant experience in the preparation of cases for trial across jurisdictions and understands the importance of having a trial-ready mindset from the outset. 

Darren is a dual-qualified American lawyer and solicitor-advocate of England and Wales. He has an established record of working closely with clients across the finance, commodities, energy, life sciences and technology industries on all stages of disputes.

He represents clients in international arbitral proceedings under the major arbitral institutions' rules, as well as in American federal and state courts. He also holds Higher Rights of Audience with the Senior Courts of England & Wales. Darren maintains an active pro bono practice with a focus on criminal, habeas, and constitutional cases on appeal.

Darren also has direct in-house experience, having undertaken secondment to the fast-paced litigation department of one of the world's largest investment banks. He worked closely with the in-house team to assess litigation risk, advise stakeholders, and manage ongoing global litigations. He now frequently works with clients to develop their dispute resolution terms, processes, and trainings for other in-house functions.

Prior to joining Orrick, Darren earned his Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School where he led the Columbia Business Law Review as its Editor-in-Chief and extensively studied federal constitutional, administrative, and criminal law. While there, he was a judicial intern in multiple levels of the U.S. federal judiciary, including the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Southern District of New York, and the District of New Jersey.

Adam Weiss is senior counsel in Linklaters’ International Arbitration practice and is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office where he focuses his practice on international commercial arbitration and complex commercial litigation. Adam has successfully represented clients in a variety of contexts and industries, including complex breach of contract disputes, trade credit insurance coverage disputes, political risk insurance coverage disputes, project infrastructure and construction disputes, media and entertainment disputes, intellectual property disputes and appellate litigation matters. The Global Arbitration Review and Law360 have recognized Adam as a “Rising Star” in International Arbitration.

Hagit Muriel Elul handles high-stakes international arbitration and cross-border litigation in the life sciences, energy and infrastructure, technology and finance sectors. She is the deputy leader of Orrick’s International Arbitration practice globally.

Hagit represents clients in international arbitrations across the world under the rules of all the major arbitral institutions including the ICDR/AAA, ICC and LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS and CPR and in cross-border disputes in courts across the United States. She has also served as an expert witness on New York law in proceedings in Canada and the United Kingdom.