Valentin Berea, Bulboaca & Asociatii SCA
Bucharest office of a Magic Circle law firm. He specialized in Competition, Litigation and Real Estate and was involved among others in the largest Rumanian IP litigation as well as in a significant number of complex real estate transactions. He is also a certified intellectual property counsellor for trademarks and industrial designs and an assisting professor of Contract Law at the Bucharest Law University.

Roberto Corciulo, IC & Partners
President and Coordinator of group IC & Partners, consortium of professionals and advisers specialized in supplying attendance and services integrated to the enterprises with offices to Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Cluj, Timisoara, Kosice, Moscow, Praga, Sofia and Warsaw. In 1995 he has founded a company of accountants in Udine. He teaches Techniques for International Investments Planning and has published guides for the investments in Bulgaria, Slovenia and Hungary.

Giuseppe De Palo, ADR Center
President of ADR Center Spa, he is Hamline University School of Law’s first International Professor of ADR Law and Practice. He also teaches International Negotiation Theory and Practice at the Interdepartmental Research Center in European and International Studies of the “La Sapienza” University of Rome. He is a mediator of major international business disputes.

Leonardo D'Urso, ADR Center
He is the managing director and co-founder of ADR Center in Italy, as well as an expert of creating Conflict Management Systems (CMS), managing business negotiations and mediating complex commercial disputes. He is responsible for the high quality and constant improvement of “case management” for the national and international Mediations and Arbitrations administrated by ADR Center, as well as their On-Line Dispute Resolution program.

Katherine Gurun, Jams
Mediator and arbitrator, Ms. Gurun was formerly Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Bechtel Corporation, one of the world’s premier engineering and construction companies. Her experience spans both private industry and public service in Engineering and Construction, Business, Energy, Project Finance, Joint Venture Disputes, Risk Management, and Nuclear Disarmament. She has represented both owners and contractors and has an established track record of settling disputes through ADR, particularly Mediation and Arbitration.

Krzysztof Wierzbowski, Wierzbowski Eversheds
Managing partner of Wierzbowski Eversheds, he developed his practice through numerous privatisation, greenfield and joint venture projects. He has represented numerous Polish and international firms from various industries, including construction and real estate development. He has worked on numerous acquisitions of Polish companies and has advised foreign investors in Poland, domestic branches of major multinational corporations and international financial institutions, and also the Ministry of Privatisation on privatisation, project finance, and real estate – leveraged financing issues.

His Honour Humphrey Lloyd
Judge of the Technology and Construction Court in London (part of the High Court of Justice of England & Wales) until 2005. Currently he is arbitrator in a number of major arbitrations concerning computer systems and construction contracts

Miglena Peneva, Georgiev Todorov & Co
Member of the International Department and Responsible of Construction Sector of Georgiev Todorov & Co., she is an expert of Real Estate, Territorial Planning, Concessions and Public Procurements. Ms. Peneva is registered with Sofia BAR Association. She has been Junior Judge at Sofia City Court (2002) and Chief expert at State Property Department, Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works (2003-2005).

Giorgio Sacerdoti, Eversheds
Counsel, he is specialized in international litigation, arbitration, contracts, investments and transport law. He is a member of the Appellate Body of the WTO, an arbitrator at the ICC and ICSID, and professor of international and European law at Bocconi University in Milan.


Andrew Symms, Eversheds
Andrew Symms has over 15 years experience working on construction projects, both international and domestic, non-contentious and contentious. He is familiar with all British, Australian and Hong Kong standard forms of building contracts, together with frequently used international standard forms such as IChemE, FIDIC (red, yellow and silver) and the ENAA.

Paul Taggart, Salini Costruttori SpA
He is an expert of Construction, Dispute Resolution, Management Consultancy and Machinery & Business for Salini Costruzioni, one of the main operating Italian society in the field of the constructions and infrastructures (roads, hydroelectric freeways, railroads, dams, systems, civil and industrial galleries, aqueducts). He is also member of the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), international association that represents the professionals who operate in the real estate industry, from the planning of the territory to the management of active trusts.

Peter Titus, Bovis Lend Lease
Central & Eastern Europe Regional Director of Bovis Lend Lease, one of the world’s leading project management and construction companies, using industry best practices when working with clients to create high quality, sustainable property assets. Bovis Lend Lease offers substantial expertise in project and construction management services ranging from feasibility assessments and advice through to project delivery, and control.

Grazia Torrente, Piergrossi Bianchini Eversheds
Grazia Torrente is specialized in international arbitration and construction contracts, she belongs to the team of construction experts of Piergrossi Bianchini Eversheds. Her experience includes turnkey contracts including major retail centres in particular, domestic commercial construction arbitrations and international arbitrations regulated by the ICC Rules.

Alessandra Vignone, Piergrossi Bianchini Eversheds
Alessandra Vignone is specialized in international arbitration and construction contracts, she belongs to the team of construction experts of Piergrossi Bianchini Eversheds. Her experience includes turnkey contracts including major retail centres in particular, domestic commercial construction arbitrations and international arbitrations regulated by the ICC Rules.

Richard Ward, Eversheds
Richard Ward is head of the Construction and Engineering Group of Eversheds. He specialized in dispute management and procurement. His procurement experience includes a full range of contracts (JCT, ICE, NEC, IChemE, MF/1, FIDIC) and methods of procurement (PPP, DBFO, EPC).  His dispute experience extends to courts (especially the TCC in London), arbitration, adjudication, mediation and expert determination.

Jay Welsh, Jams
He is Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of JAMS, the world’s largest private mediation and arbitration firm. A frequent lecturer and speaker, he conducts numerous training programs in Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration and related topics throughout the world. He has assisted numerous businesses and government agencies in the implementation ADR programs and has written extensively on reducing legal costs through the use of ADR.

Chris Wheeler, O’ Donnell Sweeney Eversheds
Partner of Construction and Projects Group of O’ Donnell Sweeney Eversheds, he has previously gained dispute, contract and project procurement experience in a wide range of matters, particularly in the area of construction, transport and PPPs. He is qualified as a solicitor in Ireland, Ontario and England and Wales and has worked for 7 years in construction law and insurance defence as a barrister in Canada.

3 judges from respectively Romania, Bulgaria and Poland