Mr. Shelby Grubbs, Grubbs ADR, Atlanta, USA
Shelby Grubbs works as an arbitrator, mediator and special master. He serves on arbitration panels for JAMS, American Arbitration Association, CPR Institute, International Centre for Dispute Resolution, International Chamber of Commerce and World Intellectual Property Organization. Formerly a member of the firm of Miller & Martin, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. From 2014 through 2017, he was Executive Director of the Atlanta Center for International Arbitration and Mediation, a component of the GSU College of Law where he was a member of the faculty teaching courses in advocacy and international commercial arbitration. He has also taught international commercial arbitration as an adjunct professor at the law schools at Emory University in Atlanta and Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Mr. Leon Kopecký, Schoenherr, Vienna, Austria
Leon Kopecký is a partner in the Vienna office of Schoenherr. Before joining Schoenherr, Leon practiced international arbitration at Freshfields and Skadden in London, New York, and Vienna. With Leon as lead counsel, Schoenherr recorded several victories in high-profile investment cases, including in an ICSID dispute of a Cypriot investor against the Republic of Serbia. Currently, amongst other investment matters, Leon acts as lead counsel for a Swiss investor in a CHF 150m investment claim against Serbia, for a French investor in a EUR 40m investment claim against the Czech Republic, and for the Austrian energy operator KELAG in an investment claim against Romania under the ECT. Beside investor-state arbitrations, Leon represents corporates in high-stakes commercial arbitrations, and frequently acts as arbitrator under the ICC, VIAC, WIPO and other arbitration rules.
Mr. Russell E. Levine, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, USA
Russell Levine is a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he has spent his entire 36+ year career. He focuses his trial, appellate and alternative dispute resolution practice on patent infringement matters and disputes involving and related to technology transfer and patent license agreements. His trial practice includes jury trials, arbitrations and Section 337 proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission. His appellate practice concentrates on appeals in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His technology transfer and licensing practice includes structuring and negotiating both licensing-in and licensing-out transactions.
Mr. Levine is active in bar associations, industry organizations and his community. He is a Past-President of LES (USA and Canada); a past-chair of the By-Laws Committee of the USTA’s Midwest Section; and a past-chair of the President’s Council at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. He is an author and frequent speaker on IP issues. He is co-editor of International Licensing and Technology Transfer: Practice and the Law. His “Top 10 Court Decisions of the Year” workshop at the LES Annual Meeting is consistently standing room only.
Mr. Levine holds a B.S. in Engineering and a B.S. in Economics, both degrees from the University of Michigan, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago. He is on WIPO’s List of Mediators and Arbitrators, and he is registered to practice before the USPTO. He also is a Certified Licensing Professional.
Mr. Levine is active in bar associations, industry organizations and his community. He is a Past-President of LES (USA and Canada); a past-chair of the By-Laws Committee of the USTA’s Midwest Section; and a past-chair of the President’s Council at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. He is an author and frequent speaker on IP issues. He is co-editor of International Licensing and Technology Transfer: Practice and the Law. His “Top 10 Court Decisions of the Year” workshop at the LES Annual Meeting is consistently standing room only.
Mr. Levine holds a B.S. in Engineering and a B.S. in Economics, both degrees from the University of Michigan, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago. He is on WIPO’s List of Mediators and Arbitrators, and he is registered to practice before the USPTO. He also is a Certified Licensing Professional.
Mr. Matthew Reed, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, USA
Matt Reed is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he practices in the areas of technology-focused international and domestic arbitration and intellectual property litigation. With a background in chemical engineering, Matt has successfully resolved numerous disputes in a variety of technical areas, ranging from generic pharmaceuticals and medical devices to semiconductor processing and packaging. Matt is a founding member of California Arbitration, a nonprofit that promotes international arbitration in California through educational, promotional, and organizational initiatives and programs. Matt has been recognized in the 2017-2024 editions of Northern California Super Lawyers.
Ms. Conna A. Weiner, Conna Weiner ADR, Boston, USA
Conna Weiner spent over 20 years as inside counsel in global life sciences companies fielding diverse general litigation, corporate, technology, IP and transactional issues. She has been a full-time mediator and arbitrator for over a decade. She began her career as a commercial litigator in New York City at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind Wharton & Garrison.
While in-house, Conna managed litigations, counseled in many therapeutic areas and negotiated transactions at every phase of the research, development, manufacturing and supply and commercialization life cycle with companies such as Novartis, including as a General Counsel living and working abroad in Basel, Switzerland on multiple occasions. Her experience in industry and as a mediator and arbitrator in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, diagnostic and other therapeutics areas is sought after in connection with dispute resolution clause requirements requiring therapeutics or related industry experience. She also has an extensive healthcare disputes practice. In addition, and in part because of the diversity of her in-house experience, Ms. Weiner is increasingly retained in technology disputes outside of the life sciences and healthcare involving IT and related patent, copyright, and trade secret disputes, such as disputes regarding the development and implementation of databases and allegations of infringement and misappropriation of technology-related IP and trade secrets by business partners.
Ms. Weiner is a Fellow in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, on the Tech List of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center, the WIPO list of neutrals and holds a number of leadership positions in legal and dispute resolution organizations, including the Northeast Subcommittee Chair of the USCIB/ICC Arbitration Committee. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and Oberlin College, where she double majored in politics and dance.
While in-house, Conna managed litigations, counseled in many therapeutic areas and negotiated transactions at every phase of the research, development, manufacturing and supply and commercialization life cycle with companies such as Novartis, including as a General Counsel living and working abroad in Basel, Switzerland on multiple occasions. Her experience in industry and as a mediator and arbitrator in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, diagnostic and other therapeutics areas is sought after in connection with dispute resolution clause requirements requiring therapeutics or related industry experience. She also has an extensive healthcare disputes practice. In addition, and in part because of the diversity of her in-house experience, Ms. Weiner is increasingly retained in technology disputes outside of the life sciences and healthcare involving IT and related patent, copyright, and trade secret disputes, such as disputes regarding the development and implementation of databases and allegations of infringement and misappropriation of technology-related IP and trade secrets by business partners.
Ms. Weiner is a Fellow in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, on the Tech List of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center, the WIPO list of neutrals and holds a number of leadership positions in legal and dispute resolution organizations, including the Northeast Subcommittee Chair of the USCIB/ICC Arbitration Committee. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and Oberlin College, where she double majored in politics and dance.