Archives: Team Members

Prof. Marike Paulsson

Marike Paulsson is the Director of the University of Miami School of Law’s International Arbitration Institute and a Lecturer in Law. Marike has over fourteen years of practice and academic experience in public international law, international arbitration, and cross-border litigation. She teaches in the US, the Middle East, India, Latin America, and Europe and publishes extensively in the field of international arbitration and public international law. She is a leading expert on the 1958 U.N. Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (The New York Convention). She has assisted in the drafting of numerous expert opinions on the Convention and acts as an expert witness herself. She has co-authored and edited the ICCA Guide on the New York Convention (International Council for Commercial Arbitration) and co-founded the ICCA NYC Roadshow for the purposes of which she familiarizes judges around the world with the application of the Convention in the national space. She is the author of “The 1958 New York Convention in Action”. She is the vice president for North America of the Global Legal Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution Centre of the University of Sao Paolo. Marike, a Dutch national, speaks five languages and has degrees from Leiden University, University of Miami, and Sciences-Po Paris, and is a member (and past member) of the Dutch, Bahraini and Belgian Bar and is a Foreign Legal Consultant in the US.

Dr. Achille Ngwanza

Dr. Achille Ngwanza teaches arbitration law and petroleum and mining law in several European and African universities. Author of several publications, he is also a practitioner of ICC arbitration, OHADA arbitration and various other systems of African arbitrations.

Lord. (David) Neuberger

David Edmond Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, PC Hon FRS, became a judge in the United Kingdom in October 1996. He served as President of the UK Supreme Court and the senior member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from October 2012 u ntil his retirement in September 2017. Before that, he was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary until the House of Lords’ judicial functions were transferred to the new Supreme Court in 2009, at which point he became Master of the Rolls, the second most senior jud ge in England and Wales. He is currently a NonPermanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and a Judge in the Singapore international Commercial Court, and practises as an arbitrator.

Mr. Arthur Ma

Arthur Ma is a partner in DaHui Lawyers’ dispute resolution team. Prior to joining DaHui, Mr. Ma practiced in various jurisdictions with leading international and local firms in Shanghai, London, Washington DC, Hong Kong, and Beijing. Arthur’s practice focuses on foreign-related domestic and on foreign-related domestic and cross-border dispute resolution with expertise in international arbitration  He has represented both foreign and domestic clients, ranging from individuals to SOEs, in litigation and arbitration both in China and overseas. He has also covered a broad range of industries in his practice, including construction and engineering, energy, manufacturing, and international trade. He also has represented clients in arbitral award enforcement proceedings in and outside of China. Arthur has participated in a range of FCPA investigations.

He works in both Chinese and English. In addition, He is a registered PRC lawyer, as well as qualified in New York and England, and Wales

Ms. Cheng Yee Khong

Cheng Yee specialises in international arbitration, having represented parties in international arbitrations at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris and administered over 800 arbitrations as director and counsel of the ICC International Court of Arbitration Secretariat in Hong Kong. She is qualified to practise in England and Wales as well as Malaysia. Her career to date spans London, Paris, Kua Kong. Chengla Lumpur and Hong Yee recently joined IMF Bentham, an arbitration and litigation funder with offices worldwide. She is based in Hong Kong.