Three Crowns LLP

Antonia Quintella de Azambuja

Antonia is an international associate in the Washington, DC office. She specializes in international commercial arbitration and has significant experience representing multinational corporations in cross-border disputes ranging across various industries, including construction, oil & gas, finance, transportation, entertainment, and food & beverages. Antonia has acted in proceedings under a number of arbitration rules, including ICC, AAA-ICDR, and CAM-CCBC. · International Commercial Arbitration

Charles (Chuck) Kotuby

Chuck is Of Counsel based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on international commercial and treaty-based arbitration, transnational litigation, and public international law. · International Arbitration

Daryl Chew

Daryl is the managing partner of the firm’s Singapore office. He has an active portfolio of arbitrations involving a wide range of applicable laws and venues, arising from energy, construction, M&A, joint venture, and general commercial disputes. Daryl also serves as presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings. · International Commercial Arbitration

Donald (Trey) Childress III

Trey is Of Counsel based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation, public international law, and private international law (conflict of laws). Trey has briefed and argued cases as counsel before the International Court of Justice and has consulted as an expert on various matters before international arbitral tribunals, with particular experience in PCA and ICSID-administered arbitrations. He has appeared as counsel before courts throughout the United States, including the United States Supreme Court, and has appeared as an expert before various courts outside of the United States. Trey was the 28th Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department, which involved advising on the formulation of the government’s arbitration and litigation strategy. He also represented the United States before international bodies, including as part of the U.S. delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group III (regarding reforms to Investor-State Dispute Settlement), before the Council of Europe’s Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law (CAHDI), and in the Diplomatic Session of the Hague Judgments Convention. · International Arbitration

Erin Culbertson

Erin, a senior associate in the Washington, DC office, has extensive experience representing and advising clients, including governments and government entities, international organisations, and multinational companies, in international arbitration proceedings (contractual and treaty-based), recognition and enforcement proceedings, complex commercial litigation, bankruptcy litigation, and project finance matters. Erin’s representations have concerned diverse industries, such as gaming, mining, life insurance, banking/finance, satellites, and wireless spectrum. · International Arbitration

Etienne Vimal Du Monteil

Etienne, a French avocat and senior associate based in the Paris office, has acted for private and sovereign clients in many complex, high-value international arbitrations across a wide range of sectors (including oil & gas, electricity, aviation, and automobile distribution) under all major arbitration rules. · International Arbitration

Georgios Petrochilos

Georgios, one of the founding partners of Three Crowns, based in the Paris office, has a broad practice spanning more than two decades and covering inter-State, investment, and commercial disputes. He has represented States, international organisations, and private parties in more than 70 disputes, including several appearances in the International Court of Justice. In addition to counsel work, Georgios is regularly sought out to act as co-arbitrator or presiding arbitrator and has experience administering cases heard under ICC, SCC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, and LCIA rules. · International Commercial Arbitration

Ilija Mitrev-Penushliski

Ilija is a partner in the Paris office. Ilija has represented clients in international arbitrations conducted under all major arbitration rules. His practice focuses on complex investment and commercial arbitrations, particularly in the energy sector. He has extensive experience with proceedings for the annulment and enforcement of arbitral awards in numerous jurisdictions. Ilija has also advised clients in relation to the renegotiation of bilateral investment treaties and on public international law issues, more generally, including on immunities, the law of the sea, and international criminal law. · International Arbitration

Kathryn Khamsi

Kathryn, a partner in the Paris office, acts for corporate clients and States in all types of disputes. She is particularly sought after in high value disputes that raise complex issues of fact and law. Kathryn also sits as arbitrator, and was recently appointed to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, and will serve a six-year term. She has lectured and published extensively on questions of international arbitration and public international law, including most recently on the subject of emissions trading schemes. · International Commercial Arbitration

Lee Wake

Lee is a senior associate in our Singapore office. He focuses on dispute resolution on major infrastructure and resources projects, with a particular focus on complex delay claims and delay analysis. His experience includes advising government and industry clients, as well as acting for owners, contractors, subcontractors and lenders to projects. Lee regularly advises on numerous dispute resolution mechanisms, including ICC and SIAC arbitrations, expert determinations, mediations, adjudications, and court proceedings. Lee is experienced in advising clients in relation to projects based in East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Africa in the power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical, civil engineering and transport industries. Clients have praised Lee for his “sound strategic judgement” and “technical ability, dedication and collegiality”, as well as having “a very good read on how Tribunals would react to arguments” and having “litigation in his blood”. · Dispute Resolution

Liz Snodgrass

Liz, a partner in the Washington, DC office, has more than twenty-five years of experience as an advocate and adviser in international arbitration matters. Her practice is a mix of commercial and investment treaty arbitration, across a range of industry sectors and for clients based in the US and around the world. Liz has particular expertise handling disputes involving States and State entities, including investment treaty cases, fiscal disputes under long-term contracts, and disputes that implicate both contract and treaty protections. Liz is recognized in leading directories. Chambers & Partners notes that Liz is particularly well regarded for her expertise in the energy sector, and handles both commercial and investment treaty disputes. Clients note: “She is very impressive; a great lawyer with strong analytical skills,” adding that she “knows the client’s needs and works to understand their business”, and Who’s Who Legal notes that she has “a brilliant legal mind” and offers “wise counsel” in arbitrations. · International Arbitration

Luke Sobota

A founding partner of Three Crowns, Luke represents private and sovereign clients in some of their largest and most important commercial, investor-State, and inter-State arbitrations, including the successful prosecution of one of the largest ICC cases in history. He also has more than 20 years of experience litigating international issues in U.S. courts. Luke’s practice experience spans a variety of sectors, with a focus on the energy, financial, and technology industries. The Legal 500 writes that Luke “is extremely smart and a great strategic thinker” and is “an excellent draftsman”. · International Arbitration

Mihir Chattopadhyay

Mihir is a senior associate in our Washington, DC office. He has experience advising clients across a range of industries, including the oil and gas, technology, aerospace, and financial services industries. Mihir has acted as counsel in several high-value and complex commercial and investment arbitrations under the ICSID, ICC, AAA-ICDR, HKIAC, and SIAC Rules. · International Arbitration

Nicola Peart

Nicola is an England and Wales qualified Barrister and Special Legal Consultant in the Washington, DC office, where she has a broad practice in international dispute resolution. She has appeared as counsel in international commercial and investment treaty disputes, as well as in proceedings before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and International Court of Justice. Nicola is the Legal Secretary to the International Tennis Federation Ethics Commission and has led numerous investigations into ethical complaints in sport. She also has an active pro bono practice and for over ten years has provided legal support to developing country negotiators and NGOs attending the international climate change treaty negotiations. · International Arbitration

Penny Martin

Penny, counsel in the Singapore office, has more than a decade of experience in international commercial arbitration and public international law. Her primary focus is on high-stakes energy disputes, including those relating to long-term oil and gas agreements (including environmental, abandonment and decommissioning, and cost recovery issues), renewable energy, mining, gas pricing, technology licensing, and intellectual property. · International Commercial Arbitration

Rudolf Simone-Pont

Rudolf is a senior associate in the Paris office. He has represented clients in international arbitrations conducted under all major arbitration rules and his practice focuses on investment and commercial arbitrations across a broad range of sectors. Rudolf also has experience with proceedings for the annulment and enforcement of arbitral awards, as well as advising clients on the renegotiation of bilateral investment treaties. Rudolf is admitted to practice in England & Wales and Paris. · International Arbitration

Ryan Manton

Ryan is Counsel in the Paris office. He practises in all areas of international dispute settlement, including international commercial arbitration, investment treaty arbitration and inter-State disputes. His experience extends across cases before a wide range of international tribunals, including as counsel before arbitral tribunals and standing international courts. His arbitration practice has included cases governed by a range of applicable laws spanning international law and both common law and civil law legal systems, and it has covered various industry sectors with particular experience in disputes arising in the energy and financial sectors. Ryan is admitted as a Barrister and a Solicitor in New Zealand. · International Commercial Arbitration

Scott Vesel

Scott, a partner in the Washington, DC office, has a decade and a half of experience handling complex international investment and commercial arbitrations in the oil and gas, construction, energy, mining, gaming, defence, technology, and agribusiness sectors. In addition to his private practice in international arbitration, he has served as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Department of State and at an international organisation. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a course on advocacy in international arbitration. He is listed in The Legal 500’s 2019 UK Arbitration Powerlist and recommended in The Legal 500 UK where he “attracts praise for his ability to ‘master complex issues’”. · International Investment Arbitration

Shaparak Saleh

Shaparak is a partner in the Three Crowns’ Paris office. She has acted as counsel for two decades in a large number of commercial arbitrations, both ad hoc and institutional, including under the DIAC, ICC, IEMA, LCIA, UNCITRAL, and VIAC rules. Her experience includes post-M&A disputes and disputes in the aeronautics, chemicals, construction, energy, food, mining, pharmaceutical, space and telecommunications sectors, relating to projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. She has represented a wide range of clients, including States, State entities, major international oil, gas, and mining companies, leading construction groups, an aircraft manufacturer, and electricity companies. Shaparak regularly sits as arbitrator, including as chairperson. In addition, she has broad experience in pre-arbitration and post-arbitration litigation before the French courts, having represented clients in approximately 25 set-aside proceedings. She was also involved in enforcement proceedings of numerous awards against sovereign States. Shaparak is listed in the major international rankings and is named as a Next Generation Partner in Legal 500. · International Arbitration

Shaun Pereira

Shaun, counsel in the Singapore office, has represented States, State-owned entities and multinational corporations in disputes subject to arbitration under the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, CIETAC, ICSID and AAA-ICDR rules in proceedings across the energy, infrastructure, and financial services sectors. Shaun has a particular focus on disputes over the development and construction of major projects, and has advised on and acted in proceedings involving many such projects in Asia. · International Arbitration

Simon Consedine

Simon is a partner in the Washington, DC office. He has significant experience in commercial arbitration and investment arbitrations, having represented clients across a wide range of sectors. Simon has been recognised for International Arbitration in The Legal 500 US since 2020 and clients have described him as having “formidable analytical skills and great client service”. · International Arbitration

Simon Elliot

Simon, a partner in the Singapore office, provides advice and representation in commercial and treaty proceedings conducted under the rules of the major arbitral institutions and ad hoc, and in pre-arbitration dispute resolution processes. His practice has a particular focus on disputes arising out of large infrastructure and major projects involving disputed technical, delay, and quantum related issues. Simon is admitted and entitled to practice at both the Paris Bar as an Avocat and in England and Wales as a Solicitor. He is also admitted in New Zealand. · International Commercial Arbitration

Thomas Dauvillier

Thomas is an associate in the Paris office. He has experience in a number of contentious and non-contentious procedures in international commercial arbitration in relation to the energy, aeronautics, construction and banking sectors, primarily in Europe and Africa. Thomas also has a broad experience of annulment proceedings before the Paris Court of Appeal and litigation proceedings before the French domestic courts. Thomas is qualified in Paris (Avocat à la Cour). · International Arbitration

Todd Wetmore

Todd Wetmore, a founding partner of Three Crowns, is based in Paris, where he has handled complex international commercial arbitration cases for over 25 years. As counsel, he represents clients in high-stakes disputes around the world in diverse sectors including high-tech manufacturing, automobile distribution, aviation, oil and gas, electricity, and mining. He has deep experience with disputes presenting challenging financial and technical issues, such as those arising from banking operations, teaming arrangements, supply and M&A deals, and gas pricing, under both common law and civil law systems. Todd is also a recognised specialist in infrastructure and construction disputes and has led teams handling some of the largest construction disputes in arbitration. Todd regularly sits as an arbitrator under the ICC, LCIA, Swiss, and UNCITRAL Rules. One prominent appointment includes the much-publicised van der Garde v. Sauber arbitration, which had an impact on the 2015 Formula 1 motor-racing season. · International Commercial Arbitration

YiKang Zhang

YiKang is a dual-qualified senior associate in the Singapore office. He regularly represents clients in both investment treaty and commercial arbitrations under all major arbitral rules, with particular expertise in the energy and financial services sectors, and in joint venture/shareholder and M&A disputes. YiKang also has substantial experience in arbitration-related litigation and post-award proceedings. YiKang is admitted to practice in England & Wales (as a Solicitor-Advocate) and in New York. · International Arbitration