Australia's free trade agreement with Singapore includes a 'denial of benefits' clause, making a claim by Palmer's Singaporean company more precarious than the one made by Philip Morris Asia, which was denied standing even though the Hong Kong FTA did not contain such a clause.

Pleased to share my article on dispute resolution clauses published in the January 2018 ADC Bulletin "Beware the Champagne Clause: When the Effervescence Fades, It May Just Be Pathological".

Henry Schein Inc. v. Archer & White Sales Inc., No. 17-1272 - arbitrability upheld, wholly groundless exceptions invalidated.

It was a pleasure to moderate the panel session focused on commerciality in arbitration for both clients and practitioners and to hear the sound advice from Pip Murphy from Vannin, Jo Delaney from Baker & McKenzie and my fellow New Yorker, John-Henry Eversgerd, from FTI.
Thank you to Erika Williams for organizing a great ArbitralWomen event and to Bronwyn Lincoln and Corrs Chambers Westgarth for graciously hosting it during Arbitration Week in Melbourne.

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I am pleased to announce that I am now a Grade 2 arbitrator with Resolution Institute (former IAMA).