Current arbitration panellists:
| Name | Edward Album |
| ejca@mitgr.com | |
| Experience | LME Panel of Arbitrators. Active as Arbitrator for 24 years. Chairman of Panel from December 2010. |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships | MA Oxford University (Law). University of Chicago. Member LME,ICC, LCIA and Dubai Panels. |
| Awards and recognitions | Appointed Member of Law Strategy Group by Lord Chief Justice 2017. |
| CV available upon request | |
| Barbara Dohmann KC | |
| bd@blackstonechambers.com | |
| Experience | 40 years as Counsel and Arbitrator in international arbitrations. Appointed as Arbitrator under the Rules of the ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, LME, ICSID and ad hoc. Chairman of the International Arbitration Centre in Kazakhstan. Former Recorder, deputy High Court Judge and Judge of the International Court in Qatar. |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships | Schools in Germany and the US, Universities of Mainz and Paris (Sorbonne), Council of Legal Education, Inns of Court, London. Queen’s Counsel 1987. Member of the BVI bar, hon. member of the Berlin Bar Association, former Chairman of COMBAR and Leader of the European Circuit and member of the Lord Chancellor’s Standing Committee on Private International Law, member of the Special Committee of the LME and of specialist bar associations and committees. |
| Awards and recognitions | Life time Achievement Award Chambers & Partners 2006, Outstanding Achievement Award the Legal 500, 2020. |
| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Elaine Kassabian |
| Elaine.kassabian@yahoo.co.uk | |
| Experience | Experienced derivatives lawyer specialising in commodities. Worked as in-house counsel for LME commodity brokers. Extensive experience of drafting and negotiating a range of trading documents such as terms of business, credit documentation, tripartite agreements. Participated in various industry committees with regard to regulatory and documentation changes and updates. |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships | Qualified solicitor Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Member of LME Arbitration Panel MBA BA Economics & Public Administration ICA Certificate in Anti-Money Laundering |
| Awards and recognitions | linkedin.com/in/elainekassabian/ |
| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Sarra Kay |
| sarra@sarrakay.com | |
| Experience | Full time commercial arbitrator & mediator |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships | Qualified solicitor and mediator LME Approved Arbitration Panellist Full member of the LMAA. P.R.I.M.E. Finance: Dispute Resolution Expert M. C. I. Arb LLB Hons; LLM Cantab |
| Awards and recognitions | www.sarrakay.com |
| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Denys Hickey |
| Denys.hickey@39essex.com | |
| Experience |
1979 – 2014 Solicitor with Ince & Co 2014 – Present Barrister and Arbitrator with 39 Essex Chambers in London and Singapore Board member - Maxwell Chambers Singapore SIAC Singapore Panel of Arbitrators London Metal Exchange Panel of Arbitrators SCMA Member Baltic Exchange Extensive experience of arbitration and trading both physical and futures, including in particular LME |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships |
BA (Law) Manchester Solicitor of the Supreme Court (England and Wales) Barrister at law (Gray’s Inn) Dipl Int Law Manchester KLRCA Panel Member – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA) Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) Member of Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (MSIArb) CIArb Accredited Mediator |
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| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Jeremy Leach |
| jleach.jemba2000@london.edu | |
| Experience | Working in the metals industry for almost 25 years, significant experience of arbitrations as practitioner and arbitrator, commercial and practical approach. IN PRIVATE PRACTICE LAW FIRM OF RICHARDS BUTLER (NOW REED SMITH), London 1986 to end 1990 Solicitor in the International Trade Department dealing with ICC, LCIA, GAFTA and LME disputes. AS IN-HOUSE COUNSEL (NOW GROUP GENERAL COUNSEL) 1991 to present dealing with many and varied international trade disputes (international arbitration and High Court issues) before the ICC, LCIA and the LME. AS ARBITRATOR 2002 to present Since admission to the panel of approved arbitrators for the London Metal Exchange in June 2002, involvement in many and varied LME arbitrations involving multi-million dollar disputes concerning both physical and futures markets. |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships | Admitted as a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) - December 2003 Admitted to the panel of approved arbitrators for the London Metal Exchange - June 2002 Admitted to the New York Bar as an Attorney and Counselor at law - February 1998 Qualified as Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia - February 1989 Qualified as Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales - August 1988 London Business School (LBS), Master of Business Administration (MBA) with merit -1999/2000 Worcester College, Oxford University, BA (subsequently MA) in Jurisprudence (Upper second) - 1981-1984 |
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| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Professor Julian D. M. Lew |
| jlew@twentyessex.com | |
| Experience | Julian is a full-time arbitrator in international commercial and investment disputes at Twenty Essex. He accepts appointments as arbitrator in international commercial and investment disputes. He has been involved with international arbitration for more than 40 years as an academic, counsel and arbitrator. Before 2005, Julian was a partner and, for some years, the head of the international arbitration practice group of Herbert Smith. Professional expertise includes international transactions affecting investments, purchase and sale of corporate entities and assets, joint ventures, oil and gas exploration, development and production agreements, research and development and promotions of pharmaceutical and chemical products, mining and concession arrangements, distribution, agency, licensing contracts, infrastructure and construction projects, international trade finance, trading arrangements with developing countries, EC law and arbitration arising out of all such transactions. Julian has been appointed as a sole, presiding and co-arbitrator in arbitrations under the rules of all the major arbitral institutions and under UNCITRAL and Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution rules. He is Professor of International Arbitration and School of International Arbitration, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He has been the Head of the School since it was established in 1985. |
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| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Charles Marquand |
| c.marquand@4stonebuildings.com clerks@4stonebuildings.com |
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| Experience | Barrister in practice (1987 call), with extensive experience since 1999 of sitting as an arbitrator (alone and as part of a tribunal) in commercial arbitrations (with UK and international parties), having dealt with all aspects of the arbitral process. Have also appeared in arbitrations as counsel. Trained mediator with experience of mediating commercial disputes. |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships | Barrister (England & Wales) and arbitrator at 4 Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn. Avocat (Paris Bar). Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and Chartered Arbitrator (CIArb). On arbitration panels of London Metal Exchange, Minor Metals Trade Association, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, LCIA and ICC (amongst others). P.R.I.M.E. Finance: Dispute Resolution Expert. Trained mediator. MA (Oxon), MA Law (Lond). |
| Awards and recognitions | |
| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Diarmuid O’Hegarty |
| dohegarty@gmail.com |
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| Experience | Solicitor in private practice: Banking and Finance (1989-1994); Securities and Futures Authority: Assistant Director & Head of Legal, Policy & Legal Department (1994-1998); London Metal Exchange: successively - Deputy CEO, COO, Executive Director: Regulation and Compliance, General Counsel & Head of Enforcement and Secretary of the LME Arbitration Scheme (1989-2014); Compliance Director of an LME member (2017-2024). |
| Education, | MA (Trinity College Dublin) in History (1984) Solicitor admitted in Ireland (1989) and England & Wales (1991) Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (1999) |
| Awards and recognitions | |
| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Antonis Papanikolas |
| asp1@medcontrol.gr / antpapanikolas@gmail.com | |
| Experience |
Antonis is the Managing Director and Principal Partner of Med Control Services, a Commodity Inspection and Testing Organization based in Athens, Greece with offices in Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon and the UK. Antonis started his career in 2006 and has been involved in the operations, quality assurance and inspection of a range of commodities in the Metals and Minerals market. Med Control Services are ISO 17020 accredited for Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Inspections and is also an ISO 17025 Calibration Laboratory. |
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Education, qualifications, and memberships |
Management (BSc/MSc), Shipping (MSc), Maritime Law (LLM) Gafta Arbitrator (Grain and Feed Trade Association, UK) Fosfa Arbitrator (The Federation Of Oilseeds and Fats Association) LME Panel of Arbitrators Members of ReMA (the Recycling Materials Association, USA through Med Control). |
| Awards and recognitions | Sworn Surveyor for the local courts of Piraeus in Greece. |
| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Patrice Maurice Saiman |
| pat.saiman@primaryuk.co.uk | |
| Experience | Trading steel internationally for the last 50 years and heading a trading company for the last thirty years. Experienced in arbitration matters involving parties from Russia, China, Algeria, Spain, Switzerland all regarding international trade disputes of commodity and shipping. Experienced arbitrator , co arbitrator and expert witness. |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships | French Baccalaureate and British university (Bristol). Accredited mediator Society of Mediators London CMC Registered. |
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| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Geoffrey Sambrook |
| geoffreysambrook@gmail.com | |
| Experience | 30+ years metal trading |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships | BA(Hons) Oxford MBA City University Business School (now Cass Business School) ACIArb |
| Awards and recognitions | |
| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Ashok Kumar Singhania |
| ashok@simportex.com | |
| Experience |
Active as trader for over 35 years thus having valuable trading knowledge of metal and soft commodity contracts, pricing etc including experience of arbitrations as practitioner, with commercial and practical approach. LME Approved Arbitration Panellist |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships | Schooling at University College School, Hampstead BSc City University (Business Studies) Worked 3 years in tax department of Arthur Andersen Individual member of the LME. Associate ember of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACiArb) |
| Awards and recognitions | |
| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Steven Mark Broder Spencer |
| steven@spencerasc.com | |
| Experience | All areas of the non-ferrous metal industry including broking, ring dealing, physical trading, concentrates, scrap metal, mining and refining, shipping, warehousing. Arbitrator in 1 ICC, 1 FINRA and 13 LME arbitrations from 1996 to date. Expert witness in 17 disputes from 2003 to date. |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships |
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators MA Diplomacy, Armaments and Intelligence BA Hons Modern Languages, University of London. Law Society School of Law, London Languages: English, French, some Italian and German |
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| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Karishma Vora |
| Karishma.vora@39essex.com | |
| Experience |
Karishma is a barrister and arbitrator with 39 Essex Chambers in London. With 17 years in practice, Karishma has the rare expertise of being qualified in three jurisdictions India (2006), England and Wales (2011) and the DIFC Dubai (2020), with reported judgments in all three. Karishma is regularly appointed as an arbitrator and is empanelled with the LCIA, ICC, MCIA, ICA and Mauritius International Arbitration Centre (MIAC). She sits as a sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in commercial and commodities disputes on an ad hoc basis and under leading institutional rules. She has particular expertise in cross-border arbitrations involving foreign law, foreign parties or both. Karishma has significant international arbitration experience that includes metal arbitrations and arbitrations in the steel industry. She also has sector expertise in commodities and trading disputes under the GAFTA, RSA and SAL rules. |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships |
2003 London School of Economics and Political Science, BSc (Hons) 2006 Government Law College, Mumbai, LLB (first) Serving member of FICCI’s arbitration arm, the Indian Council of Arbitration’s international advisory committee. Serving committee member on two COMBAR subcommittees - The COMBAR India Subcommittee and the COMBAR UAE subcommittee. 39 Essex Chambers’ representative for COMBAR. Served on the organising committee of the Bar Council's Annual Bar Conference in 2018 Gray’s Inn Barristers’ Committee (January 2014 – January 2017) The Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR) The Chancery Bar Association African Arbitration Association (AfAA) The London School of Economics Lawyers Alumni Association Indian Council of Arbitration, New Delhi Bombay Bar Association Mumbai Life member of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) |
| Awards and recognitions |
Karishma is ranked by the Legal 500 in three practice areas in the UK banking and finance, commercial litigation and civil fraud, and commercial litigation in the Middle East and Africa (band 1) 2017 ‘Commercial Disputes Lawyer of The Year Award’ conferred by The Lawyer Monthly Women In Law Awards 2015 Nominated for the Rising Star Award at the Society of Asian Lawyers Annual Awards |
| CV available upon request | |
| Name | Mei Xin Wang |
| meixinwang2002@yahoo.co.uk | |
| Experience | Over 25 years of experience in commodity trading, both on physical and futures market. Extensive arbitration experience in settling multilayered trade disputes involving parties in geographies in Europe, China and Asian Pacific region, leading to awards and settlements. |
| Education, qualifications, and memberships | Qualified as an arbitrator (1999). MBA in Marketing (1992) MA in International Business (1987) BA in International Business (1981) A member of Commodities Arbitration Club since 2010 |
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| CV available upon request | |