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Siobhan is a Senior Associate in the International Arbitration team at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Her practice focuses on commercial and investment treaty arbitration and she has acted on multiple complex cross-border disputes under a range of institutional rules and governing laws, with a particular focus on the LCIA, ICC and ICSID. She has advised clients in various sectors, including property and construction, pharmaceuticals, space technology, M&A, private equity and financial services and regularly advises clients from a range of jurisdictions. She also sits as tribunal secretary and has experience of commercial litigation in the High Court in London.

In 2019 she completed a three-month secondment to the LCIA Secretariat’s casework team as counsel. ÌýShe recently qualified as a solicitor advocate in the English courts.

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James is a full-time arbitrator in independent practice.ÌýHe is an associate member of Six Pump Court Chambers in London.
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For six years, between 2016 and 2022, James worked part-time for ³ÉÈËÓ°ÒôÌýon the Lexis®PSL Arbitration module and helped to develop and update LMAA, commodities, arbitration statistics, third-party funding, institutional and ad hoc arbitration content. He has also been a contributor to the ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô® Dispute Resolution Blog and New Law Journal.
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James has more than 30 years’ experience of ad hoc, trade association, institutional and investment arbitrations as a solicitor and avocat in London and Paris, as a former Registrar and Deputy Director General of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), as a case assessor for legal costs insurers and third-party funders, and as an arbitrator. His background as a lawyer is in shipping, commodities, oil and gas, and insurance. His appointments as an arbitrator since 2016 have largely been in these sectors.
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He spent more than 20 years in private practice with Withers, HFW and Stephenson Harwood. At the LCIA from 2008-2012, he oversaw the administration of more than a thousand commercial arbitrations and assisted with updating the institution’s arbitration rules. At Thomas Miller Legal, in 2012-2014, he assessed and managed a wide range of commercial and investment claims on behalf of insurers and funders.
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James takes appointments in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations as sole arbitrator and on three member panels. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an Aspiring Full Member and former Honorary Secretary of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA).Ìý

Isabelle is the Marketing Executive at ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô UK supporting mid and large firms. She is passionate about creating compelling content, and working with customers to ensure they get the most value out of ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô products and services. Prior to joining ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô, Isabelle held a marketing and data position at a property consultancy.

Market Tracker is a unique service for corporate lawyers housed within Lexis®PSL Corporate. It features a powerful transaction data analysis tool for accessing, analysing and comparing the specific features of corporate transactions, with a comprehensive and searchable library of deal documentation across 14 different deal types. The Market Tracker product also includes news and analysis of key corporate deals and activity and in-depth analysis of recent trends in corporate transactions.Ìý

Ruth heads LexisPSL Energy. She has extensive regulatory and transactional experience in projects within the power, renewables and oil & gas sectors, both in the UK and internationally, and often with a project finance dimension. Her experience includes advising on electricity interconnector development projects, gas pipeline projects, power plant projects (including IPPs, wind farms and waste to energy plants), electricity trading (including on Grid Trade Master Agreements (GTMAs), and advising a power exchange on the development of standard documentations), energy M&As, energy sector privatisations, gas purchase and gas tolling agreements, and joint operations.

Ruth trained and qualified at Dentons (including a six-month stint in their Moscow office), and subsequently worked at Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith Freehills and Ashurst. Ruth joined ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô® in March 2020. She has written a number of articles which have been published in various publications.
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