January 30, 2023
Mr. Roger Wakefield
Roger Wakefield has been a director in Werksmans Attorneys Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department since 1996. Roger specialises in major commercial litigation with a focus on health, pharmaceutical & life sciences and technology. He has indepth expertise in cross-border disputes, enforcements of foreign judgments, private international law and commercial litigation in the United States. He is also skilled in arbitration, mediation and alternative dispute resolution; IT litigation; administrative law; intellectual property law, trade marks & copyright law; healthcare and health funding; mining law; and corporate fraud. Roger has been involved in a number of foreign judgment cases that are now leading authorities in South African law. He is named as a leading commercial litigator in The International Who’s Who of Commercial Litigators and in Best Lawyers.
January 30, 2023
Mr. Harish Salve KC
Harish Salve is a barrister (Blackstone Chambe rs) and a Senior Advocate (India). He qualified as a Chartered Accountant (India) in 1979 and enrolled as an advocate in 1980. In 1986 he set up independent Chambers in India. Mr. Salve was designated as Senior Advocate in 1992. He was also the Solicitor G 1999 and November 2002. Mr. Salve eneral of India between November had an extensive practice in the Supreme Court of India and the High Courts in commercial law, taxation and arbitration. He was enrolled as a barrister in the UK in July 2013 and is a membe r of the Gray’s Inn. Presently, Mr. Salve Treaty arbitration . practices mostly commercial arbitration and Bilateral Investment
January 30, 2023
Prof. Klaus Sachs
Klaus Sachs is a partner of the German law firm CMS Hasche Sigle. He has acted as arbitrator in more than two hundred international arbitrations, both commercial and investor-state disputes under various rules. He is member of the Governing Board of ICCA and a former Vice-President of the ICC Court. He is co-publisher of the German Arbitration Journal and teaches arbitration law as professor at the university of Munich.
January 30, 2023
Mr. David Rivkin
David W. Rivkin is Co-Chair of the International Dispute Resolution Group of Debevoise & Plimpton and the Immediate Past President of the International Bar Association. A litigation partner in the firm’s New York and London offices, Mr. Rivkin has served as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrations throughout the world for more than 30 years. He is consistently ranked as one of the top international dispute resolution practitioners in the world. Chambers Global (2015, 2016, & 2017) identified Mr. Rivkin as one of the top fourteen international arbitration practitioners worldwide, and recognized his demonstrated “aptitude for complex, high-stakes disputes” in international arbitration. He has also served on the Board of many other international arbitration institutions.
January 30, 2023
Ms. Shaheda Peeroo
Shaheda Peeroo is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of Mauritius. She retired in 2016 as the most senior of the “Designated Judges” specialised for international arbitration matters, after having delivered judgments in a number of landmark cases, including Cruz City v Unitech Limited [Yearbook Com. Arb. 2014 (Vol 39) 447];[2014 MR 46] and UBS v MCB [2016 SCJ 43]. The Cruz City judgment was nominated by the Global Arbitration Review (GAR) for an award as “the most important published decision of 2014 for jurispru dential or other reasons”. She is a member of the Administrative Tribunal of the African Union, and an arbitrator at Peeroo Chambers in Mauritius.
