Jan Ahrens is Principal Counsel Dispute Resolution at Siemens AG and responsible for managing major disputes worldwide, across all business areas.

Jan is a German lawyer and also qualified to practice in England & Wales and Switzerland. He holds a PhD from Freiburg University and an LLM from Geneva and Lausanne Universities. Before joining Siemens in 2009, Jan Ahrens practiced with a leading Swiss law firm in Geneva in the field of international arbitration and worked as a legal counsel for a major European pharmaceutical company. Since 2002, Jan has been acting as counsel, managing in-house counsel and arbitrator in numerous international arbitrations and he is a regular lecturer in the field.

Jean-Marc Brunel is an experienced chief IP officer who holds several IP qualifications and is known for having transformed and enhanced the IP strategy and function of the companies who have benefited from his wide and operational experience.

He is also appreciated as a vivid and straight to the point speaker in international IP conferences.

He hold degrees in the 3 main branches that matter for IP: Engineering (INSA Lyon), Innovation & Management (Toulouse Business School), Legal (Strasbourg UniLaw), supplemented by an advanced degree in patent litigation (CEIPI). He is also qualified as French and European patent attorney and a certified European Knowledge Transfer Society expert.

Since 2017, Jean-Marc has been serving as Chief Intellectual Property Officer and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Safran. He previously had led the Safran Aircraft Engine IP Organisation and the Safran Group IP Centre of Excellence for eight years.

Before joining Safran, Jean-Marc has spent 20 years at Airbus, in all functions dealing with IP: Patent Intelligence, Litigations, Strategy, Patent Operations, Licensing, Risk Management, R&D Cooperations and Venture.

His contribution and impact are widely recognized in the IP world, as illustrated by his board membership of several IP committees and associations and his permanent ranking in the 300 Worlds leading IP Strategist (IAM).

Philipp Groz is a dispute resolution partner at the Swiss law firm Schellenberg Wittmer and heads the IP and life sciences teams. He regularly represents clients in domestic and international litigation, arbitration and mediation proceedings with a focus on disputes related to IP, unfair competition, licensing and distribution. He also sits as an arbitrator. Philipp is listed as a neutral with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center and is a board member of Licensing Executives Society Switzerland. He is recognized, inter alia, in Who's Who Legal's Future Leaders Arbitration rankings (2018-2020). Philipp graduated from the law school of the University of Zurich and also earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from NYU Law.

Martin Hauser, certified mediator in Germany and France, leads national and international commercial mediations in English, French, and German. He has a legal background in intellectual property, IT, licences, distribution, competition, complex industrial projects, and international business law. With over 30 years of practice as a business lawyer in commercial litigation, international arbitration and negotiations, Martin Hauser works exclusively as commercial mediator on the resolution of complex and emotional legal conflicts. He is accredited with mediation institutions such as WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Geneva, CMAP, Paris, ICC Centre for ADR, Paris. Martin Hauser is Vice Chair of the Mediation Committee of the IBA International Bar Association. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the IAM, Dallas and is selected by WWL Who’s Who Legal Mediation.

Martin Hauser is a member of the Munich (Rechtsanwalt) and Paris (avocat honoraire) Bars. He practiced from 1988 to 2019 as founding partner at BMH AVOCATS, Paris. From 1980 to 1983, he was a research fellow in French intellectual property and competition law with the Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich.

Martin Hauser holds degrees of Master of Arts (M.A.) in negotiation and mediation from the European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder (2015), Master of Comparative Jurisprudence (M.C.J.) from New York University (NYU) (1986), Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.) from the University of Munich (1983) and law degrees from the Universities of Munich and Freiburg i. Br. (1985, 1979).

Christine Kang is a partner in the New York office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in the Litigation department. Christine has significant experience in resolving cross-border disputes and enjoys a high reputation in international arbitration. She also has extensive and successful experiences in in Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) sanction matters.

Before joining Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Christine practiced at Chinese elite firm and international law firms for years, and worked at CIETAC Beijing headquarters for eight years prior to her private practice. She has advised leading Fortune 500 companies on their international arbitration cases with major international arbitration institutions, including CIETAC, AAA-ICDR, HKIAC, ICC, SIAC, and SCC etc., involving a broad array of industries and areas such as international trade, joint ventures, construction, finance, insurance and intellectual property. She also regularly advised Chinese SOEs on their overseas litigation cases in concert with US and UK litigators.

Christine has extensive and in-depth experiences in representing Chinese SOEs and multinationals in their corporate compliance and anti-bribery investigations. Specifically, she has regularly represented Chinese enterprises in their response to the investigation from, settlement negotiations with the MDBs, including the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the Asia Development Bank and establishing as well as implementing the integrity compliance program with the MDBs standards.

Christine is a member of the Council of AAA, the AAA-ICDR Rules Revision Committee, AAA International Advisory Committee, the HKIAC Proceedings Committee, as well as the WIPO International Advisory Committee. She has acted as a presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator and party-nominated arbitrator in a variety of arbitration cases. She is also listed as an arbitrator on the panels of world major international arbitration institutions, including AAA-ICDR, HKIAC, CIETAC, ICC and WIPO. Christine is recently nominated in Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders-Global Elite 2021, Arbitration 2021 and Thought Leaders-GIR 2021.

Christine was educated in the People’s Republic of China (Renmin University of China), the United States(Stanford Law School) and France (Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, Faculté des Droits). She is qualified in China (1995) and New York (2015), and speaks Mandarin, English and French.

Chung Nian Lam heads the Intellectual Property, Technology & Media, Telecommunications and Data Protection Practices at WongPartnership LLP, a leading Singapore law firm.

He has extensive experience representing multinational companies, listed corporations and government clients on regulatory, transactional, enforcement and advisory matters. He is a leading practitioner in his areas of expertise, having won many awards and accolades.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been appointed as an IP Adjudicator empowered to hear disputes before the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, as well as to the Singapore International Arbitration Centre’s Panel of Arbitrators for IP Disputes, and the World Intellectual Property Organization Panel of Film and Media Mediators, Arbitrators and Experts, among others. He is admitted to the Singapore Bar and to the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales and is also a registered patent agent in Singapore.

Kathleen Paisley is a recognised international arbitrator and mediator. She is triple qualified in law, finance and accounting, with a JD from the Yale Law School, an MBA in finance and has completed the CPA exam. Kathleen has acted in commercial cases under all the major international arbitration rules and in investor-State cases before ICSID and under the UNCITRAL rules. She is an expert in IP, technology, pharmaceuticals and bio-technology, data-protection and cybersecurity, as well as having a sophisticated understanding of finance and accounting-related issues. She has also acted as chief legal officer in both technology and pharmaceutical companies. In addition to her commercial and corporate experience, she is also recognised in both public and private international law having acted in investor-State cases for more than 25 years.

Joyce A. Tan is managing director of the firm she established in 1998, a business-focused commercial law practice, with strengths in intellectual property and technology. She is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer by numerous legal publications including Legal 500, Chambers, AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers, Practical Law Company, World Trade Mark Review, International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, International Who’s Who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers, International Who’s Who of Internet, E-Commerce & Data Protection Lawyers, Global Communications, Guide to the World’s Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers, Global Counsel 3000, Global Law Experts, The Best Lawyers and Acritas Stars and has been recognized in the A-List of Singapore’s Top 100 Lawyers by Asia Business Law Journal.

Her subject matter expertise in the IP and TMT space has also been validated by her appointment as expert witness on domain names and cybersquatting in legal proceedings before the Supreme Court of Singapore, which led to a precedent-setting decision in which she was heavily quoted.

Her business-focused legal practice which routinely involves intense negotiations and the development of creative business solutions, is a natural ally to her mediation work, in which she has been active for many years. She is credited for her work in the successful mediation of an international dispute involving IP rights spanning six jurisdictions, which the World Trademark Review reported as “groundbreaking” and that “could redefine the trademark status quo”. Her mediation work has extended to disputes involving cross-border trade mark rights, copyright, passing off, TMT procurement, commercial matters and personal rights, including those arising from proceedings before the Supreme Court and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore.