Alice Meissner is a double qualified attorney-at-law and partner at the law firm Fieldfisher based in Vienna. Ms. Meissner is admitted with the Vienna as well as the Munich Bar Association. She holds a doctoral degree in law from the University of Vienna as well as a graduate degree in law from the University of Hamburg.
Alice has a well-established track record in advising Chinese investors with their post-M&A disputes in various industries. She has been acting as counsel in a number of commercial arbitration proceedings, under the arbitration rules of ICC, VIAC and CIETAC. She also acts as independent arbitrator and is Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (HKIArb). She advised CIETAC with their establishment of the CIETAC European Arbitration Centre in Vienna in 2018. She has been listed by the Chambers and Legal500 as key contact for China-related disputes. Alice Meissner has been appointed as Chair of ECAA.

Liyu (Denning) Jin is a Chinese lawyer based in Shanghai China practicing in complex commercial and financial litigation, international arbitration, large-scale litigation on torts, insurance litigation, patent litigation, IP-related antitrust litigation etc. Mr. Jin also serves as an arbitrator of China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission, Shanghai International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission, Arbitration Center Across the Straits, Hangzhou Arbitration Commission and Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (General Panel and IP Panel), and a CEPA Mediator of the CIETAC Investment Dispute Settlement Center.

Denning Jin has been appointed as Deputy Chair (China) of ECAA.

Reinhard Bork is Professor of Law at the University of Hamburg, where he is also Director of the Seminar for Civil Procedural Law. He was Dean of the Law Faculty in 1993/1994 and Vice Dean 2005-2010. Reinhard Bork has been further appointed as Professor for International Insolvency Law at Radboud University in Nijmegen for a period of two years. He acted as Professor of Law at University of Bonn and has been a Robert S. Campbell Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College Oxford. Further, he has served as a judge at the Upper State Court (Court of Appeal) in Hamburg in the Commercial Law Division with jurisdiction including patents and intellectual property rights.

Reinhard Bork studied law at the University of Münster/Westf., passing state examinations in 1980 and 1982. Law doctorate in 1984 and post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) in 1988. He has been invited for talks and was Visiting Professor to various universities worldwide, among others National Taiwan University Taipei, Oxford University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Tsinghua University Beijing, and has published extensively on civil and civil procedural law (including arbitration), insolvency law and commercial law. He has broad experience as an arbitrator in national and international cases since 1994.

Jessica Fei is Partner of King&Wood Mallesons (KWM) in Beijing and Hong Kong and specializes in cross-border dispute resolution, arbitration and litigation practice. She is currently the joint global head of international arbitration practice of KWM, and a member of the firm’s DR management team in charge of cross-border disputes. Jessica is one of the very few leading international arbitration practitioners (acting as counsel and arbitrator) with mainland Chinese background and dual qualifications (Chinese and New York) as well extensive cross-border experience handling disputes between Chinese and foreign parties. Jessica has been involved in international arbitration work since 1994. She has about eight years of experience working as a case manager and research fellow with leading international arbitration institutions, including CIETAC in Beijing and the ICDR/AAA in New York, where she administered and coordinated more than 300 international arbitration and mediation cases. She represents and assists clients in international arbitrations (including AAA/ICDR, HKIAC, SIAC, ICC, CIETAC, LCIA, SCC, BAC and UNCITRAL). She handles disputes relating to energy, infrastructure and construction, trade, international investment (eg Sino-foreign joint venture disputes), merger & acquisition, manufacturing, distribution, and intellectual property matters among others. Jessica is particularly experienced in advising clients in foreign-related arbitrations in China and overseas arbitration and litigation.

Martin Schauer is Professor at the Institute for Civil Law, University of Vienna and titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Paris. Before, he was Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business and director of the Reseach Institute of Central and Eastern Europan Business Law. He was also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at Chuo University (Tokyo) and Visiting Lecturer at various universities (Cracow, Bratislava, Brno, Liechtenstein, Salzburg). Professor Schauer also was member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Max Planck Institute for comparative and international Private Law (Hamburg). His main areas of research are private business law, company law, succession and foundations, insurance law. Martin Schauer is co-editor and co-author of “Handbuch Schiedsrecht” (Handbook on Arbitration Law).

Julie Raneda, FCIArb, is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s international arbitration practice and the managing director of the Singapore office. She represents clients in international commercial and investment arbitration matters.

Julie has been involved as counsel and arbitrator in complex arbitrations seated in civil and common law jurisdictions under different laws and various arbitration rules (in particular ICC, SIAC, SCAI, UNCITRAL, CAS, VIAC). Her main areas of expertise include construction and engineering, energy, pharmaceutical/life sciences, fintech, distribution, manufacturing and international sales. She also advises clients on international trade sanctions.

Julie is the chair of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Singapore (SwissCham Singapore) and the co-chair of the ASA Asia chapter. Julie is also a member of the ICC Singapore Group (Empowerment Sub-Committee) and a member of HKIAC Proceedings Committee. She sits on the Faculty of the Delos ROAP (Remote Oral Advocacy Programme) Asia and is the co-founder of the Women’s Business Society established in Geneva in 2012. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).

Colin Seow is a distinguished legal professional with experience sitting as presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in various arbitrations administered by the LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC and AIAC. He boasts over twelve years of judicial experience in the Singapore Supreme Court, and he brings with him expertise in alternative dispute resolution and mediation. He also appears as instructed counsel in commercial arbitration and litigation cases, specializing in complex international commercial cases. He has played a pivotal role in legal reforms, including contributions to the Singapore International Commercial Court and the drafting of procedural rules. Colin is also a member of the DIFC Courts Court Users’ Committee and a committee member of the Singapore Young Public International Law Group. He is qualified to practise law in Singapore, in England and Wales, in New York and before the DIFC Courts.

Hermann Knott is a member of the German and the New York Bar living in Cologne, Germany. He has many years of experience as a corporate, commercial and disputes lawyer. He studied law at the Universities of Cologne, Geneva (under Professor Pierre Lalive, one of the pioneers of international arbitration). Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania) and Stanford (teaching assistant and work on his doctorate thesis on conflict of laws issues in the international trade in artworks). In his practice, he has always included the tax and financial aspects into his work. Over the last ten years, he has increasingly used his transactional experience in the context of resolving disputes in international arbitration and mediation.  

Hermann started his professional career in a Wall Street firm in New York in the period when foreign investors were eager to enter Central Europe. He then started working in Germany at a highly reputed firm before being one of the founders of establishing the legal practice associated with a global advisory organization working on cross-border transactions. 

Hermann has profound experience in dispute resolution, whether in court, arbitration, or mediation. In addition, he has published and lectured on numerous occasions on international arbitration and mediation issues.

Hermann is a Registered Foreign Lawyer at the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. He speaks German (mother tongue), English, French (both fluent), Spanish (proficient) and Italian (basic knowledge).