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Stuart has recently returned to London after
several years in Singapore acting as Asia Head of
Corporate. He has significant experience of
advising on M&A and Joint Venture deals in
emerging markets having acted for financial
institutions, sponsors and corporates on
investments and disposals across Asia, Africa and
Latin America.
Speakers’ biographies
Stuart Bedford
Partner, London
Tel: +44 20 7456 3322
Stephen is a corporate partner in our London office,
specialising in UK company law and in UK and
international public and private M&A. He has
completed secondments in our Moscow, Hong Kong
and Shanghai offices, and has advised on deals in
Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and South America.
Stephen Griffin
Partner, London
Tel: +44 20 7456 3262
Dealing with expropriation and other government risk
Andrew Jones
Partner, London
Tel: +44 20 7456 5892
Andrew has been a partner in Linklaters’ Projects
Group since 2003 and is co-head of the firm’s Africa
Group. He regularly advises on developments,
acquisitions and financings of project assets.
Andrew has a particularly strong practice in emerging
markets. He has 20 years’ experience of working in
Africa (where he has worked in 30 countries) and
throughout Latin America as well as markets in
Central and Eastern Europe such as Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Turkey and Ukraine.
He has particular expertise in the mining/metals,
infrastructure/PPP and energy and natural resources
sectors where he regularly acts for
sponsors/borrowers, banks, export credit agencies and
governments.
Speakers’ biographies
Dealing with expropriation and other government risk
Roland Ziadé
Partner, Paris
Tel: +33 1 56 43 28 34
Roland has acted as counsel in a large number of
international arbitration cases (ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA,
ICSID, AAA, SCC, OHADA, PCA, and ad hoc) and has
represented and/or advised private companies (from
the United States of America, Europe, Asia, Africa,
the Middle East and Latin America), states, and
international organisations in both commercial and
investment disputes. Roland has a particularly strong
expertise in emerging markets, including Africa and
the Middle East.
Roland also regularly acts as arbitrator in ad hoc and
institutional international arbitrations (ICC, LCIA,
UNCITRAL, Swiss Chambers, DIAC, DIFC-LCIA, AFA,
CRCICA). He is also a member of the ICC
International Court of Arbitration, the ICC Commission
on Arbitration and the Executive Committee of the
Comité Français de l’Arbitrage.
Roland is distinguished by Chambers Global and
Chambers Europe, The International Who’s Who on
Commercial Arbitration, as well as the Guide to the
World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration for
his experience and expertise in international
arbitration. In 2011, Global Arbitration Review named
Roland as one of the 45 top arbitration lawyers under
the age of 45.
Daniella Strik
Partner, Amsterdam
Tel: +31 207 996 338
Daniella heads Linklaters’ Litigation & Arbitration
practice in the Netherlands. Her international
arbitration experience includes acting as counsel in
arbitrations under i.e. the ICC, UNCITRAL and NAI
rules and ad hoc proceedings. She has experience in
highly publicised investor-state disputes, including
representing ageas (formerly Fortis) in its multi-billion
euro disputes with the Dutch State in relation to the
2008 break up of the Fortis group and representing
Dutch insurer Eureko B.V. in the arbitration under the
Bilateral Investment Treaty between the Kingdom of
the Netherlands and the Republic of Poland on
Eureko’s investment in PZU S.A.
Daniella is a member of the advisory and supervisory
board of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute, the ICC
Arbitration Commission and former President of the
International Arbitration Commission at AIJA
(International Association of Young Lawyers, 2003 -
2006).