Tony Budidjaja Founding partner at Budidjaja International Lawyers, Indonesia
Tony Budidjaja Founding partner at Budidjaja International Lawyers, Indonesia Tony Budidjaja has more than 26 years of experience as an advocate, mediator, and arbitrator for both domestic and international disputes. Tony is the first Indonesian lawyer is deemed qualified to speak in person before the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC).
Felix Dasser Swiss Arbitration Association President and Partner at Homburger, Switzerland Felix Dasser is President of the Swiss Arbitration Association since 2020. He is a senior member and former head of the dispute resolution practice of Swiss firm Homburger. He has more than 30 years of experience with a focus on litigating and arbitrating international commercial disputes. He sits as arbitrator and acts as counsel in arbitral proceedings under various arbitration rules. Felix Dasser is also an adjunct professor at the University of Zurich, and is often retained as expert on Swiss substantive and procedural law. He taught e.g. at the Hague Academy of International Law and is a visiting professor at the China University of Political Science and Law on international commercial arbitration. He studied law at the University of Zurich (PhD 1989 s.c.l.) and at the Harvard Law School (LL.M. '90).
Julie Raneda Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer, Singapore
Julie Raneda Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer, Singapore Julie Raneda, FCIArb is Partner in our International Arbitration Group in Singapore. She is specialized in international commercial and investment arbitration and has acted as counsel before international arbitral tribunals in a broad range of disputes and under many different laws.
Ereblinda Sadiku Legal Counsel at Thailand Arbitration Center, Thailand (Moderator)
Ereblinda Sadiku Legal Counsel at Thailand Arbitration Center, Thailand (Moderator) Ereblinda Sadiku is a Swiss Lawyer who works as a Legal Counsel at the Thailand Arbitration Center. She is also an accredited mediator in the field of Civil and Commercial Disputes. Prior to coming to Thailand, she studied at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the University of Vienna (Austria), where she focused her expertise on international law and alternative dispute resolution on an international level. As a key member of THAC, she plays the role of a Lawyer, specialized in international law, which enables her to offer extensive advice to a foreign market.
Paul Tan Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Singapore
Paul Tan Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Singapore Paul Tan is a partner in the Singapore office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Mr. Tan specializes in international arbitration (both commercial and investor state), international litigation and arbitration-related litigation. He leads the arbitration practice for the firm in Asia. Described as “one of the best lawyers in Singapore”, Mr Tan’s practice focuses on managing complex, high-value disputes across Asia, involving issues of public and private international law. He acts for leading corporations, global insurers, financial institutions, funds and Asian governments across a range of industries and concerns, including telecoms, natural resources, technology and media, oil and gas, construction and real estate, private equity, banking and financial institutions and ESG. He has been appointed an expert on Singapore law, and sits as an arbitrator in SIAC and ICC cases. He is the co-author of three books on international arbitration: The Law and Theory of International Commercial Arbitration in Singapore (Academy Publishing, 2022), A Commentary on the Singapore International Arbitration Act (Oxford University Press, 2023) and the forthcoming edition of the world-renowned Mustill & Boyd’s treatise on commercial and investment arbitration. He also co-wrote and co-edited Singapore Law: 50 Years in the Making (2017), an empirical account of the development of all facets of Singapore law including its commercial and arbitration laws.
Amnart Tangkiriphimarn Assistant Professor Dr. at Thammasat University, Thailand (Moderator)
Amnart Tangkiriphimarn Assistant Professor Dr. at Thammasat University, Thailand (Moderator) Assistant Professor Dr. Amnart Tangkiriphimarn is Vice Dean for International Affairs and International Programs and Director of the International LL.B. Program in Business Law at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University. He has taught courses on arbitration, international investment law, torts, and business organizations. Amnart received his LL.B. with First-Class Honors from Thammasat University in 2008. From 2012 to 2017, he was in the United States to pursue his LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees at Yale Law School, where he was a research assistant to Professor W. Michael Reisman from 2016 to 2017 and a teaching assistant for the International Investment Law class co-taught by Professor Guillermo Aguilar Álvarez in Fall 2016. His doctoral dissertation was titled “Indirect Expropriation in Contemporary International Investment Law.” Subsequently, Amnart was awarded the Howard M. Holtzmann Fellowship at the Permanent Court of Arbitration from Yale Law School to work as an Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Netherlands from September 2017 to September 2018.
Noppramart Thammateeradaycho Partner at Tilleke & Gibbins, Thailand
Noppramart Thammateeradaycho Partner at Tilleke & Gibbins, Thailand Noppramart Thammateeradaycho is a partner in Tilleke & Gibbins dispute resolution department in Bangkok. Noppramart has substantial experience in international litigation and arbitration gained from her representation of client interests in a wide variety of civil disputes across multiple jurisdictions, including Singapore, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos. Noppramart is a respected arbitration expert known for her skilled navigation of both international and domestic rules across several jurisdictions. She has been an appointed arbitrator in several domestic and international arbitration cases and is a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She is also listed as an expert with several arbitration institutes, including the Shanghai Arbitration Commission (SHAC), the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA), the Thai Arbitration Center, and the Thai Arbitration Institute. Noppramart is also an accredited mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI), and she is Thailand’s representative for Swiss Arbitration Association. Noppramart is the founder of the Bangkok Arbitration Club, which works to promote the practice of international arbitration in Thailand.
Loc Xuan Partner at Tilleke & Gibbins, Vietnam
Loc Xuan Partner at Tilleke & Gibbins, Vietnam Loc Xuan Le, partner, heads Tilleke & Gibbins’ Vietnam IP Enforcement and Dispute Resolution teams and is a principal in T&G Law Firm LLC (TGVN) in Vietnam. Loc advises and represents clients in resolving a wide range of disputes by means of court litigation, arbitration, and other ADR methods, and has secured a number of groundbreaking wins for global, regional, and domestic companies. As an advisor on a wide range of contentious matters across multiple practice areas and jurisdictions, Loc leads his team in serving the firm’s clients in a number of energy, construction, sale/purchase, and company disputes before the Vietnamese courts and the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC). From 2021 to 2022, Loc participated in around 10 dispute cases before VIAC, placing Tilleke & Gibbins as one of the law firms having the most dispute cases at VIAC during the period. Loc has also represented clients in arbitration before the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), where he successfully assisted in obtaining favorable settlements. Loc secures clients' legitimate rights and interests to the very end by getting foreign arbitral awards and court judgments successfully recognized and enforced. In a recent case, Loc succeeded in getting foreign arbitral awards recognized and enforced in Vietnam under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of 1958 – an uncommon outcome in Vietnam. Loc sits on the executive board of the Vietnam Intellectual Property Association, and is a member of the INTA Unfair Competition Committee and the APAA Design Committee. He also serves as a visiting professor at some of Vietnam’s top universities and regularly publishes on IP matters.