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IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022

30 Oct - 4 Nov 2022

Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, USA

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Justin Hogan-Doran

Biography

Justin Hogan-Doran SC FCIArb FACICA is a Senior Counsel of the Australian Bar and an Arbitrator in international and domestic arbitrations, based at 7 Wentworth Selborne Chambers in Sydney, Australia. He is recognised by his peers as a highly accomplished barrister and arbitrator with expertise in international and cross-border litigation, international commercial arbitration, investor-state disputes and private & public international law. He also has an extensive practice acting and advising in admiralty & maritime law matters and disputes concerning ports and infrastructure. Justin acts for a range of multi-national corporations, leading financial institutions and hedge funds, litigation funders, international shipping and cruise lines and P&I Clubs. He is regularly briefed directly by foreign attorneys at global and specialist law firms, and Asian-Australian law firms with international clientele investing and doing business in Australia and the region. Justin appears as counsel for and against sovereign States concerning claims before Australian courts and international arbitral tribunals. He also acts for the Commonwealth of Australia in complex commercial matters and admiralty disputes. He sits as an arbitrator in international and domestic arbitrations including under UNCITRAL, ICC, ACICA, SIAC and other regional and international rules. He is also appointed as an expert determiner Justin is recognised as a leading advocate and strategist in the international enforcement actions including arbitral awards arising from investor-state, maritime, commodity and trade disputes on behalf of funders and investors. In the past three years, he has been briefed to act for every international investor in the Australian Courts seeking to recover over US$8 billion of awards arising under the ICSID Convention and ICC and UNCITRAL Rules. He has also advised and acted for sovereign States on immunity claims before Australian courts, before trial and appellate courts. In November 2022, Justin appeared for international investors against the Kingdom of Spain in the High Court of Australia. This seminal judgment is due out shortly. Justin has been recognised in Chambers & Partners: Global and Asia-Pacific Guide – The Bar; Doyle’s Guide Australia in the areas of Transport, Arbitration and Construction & Infrastructure; and in Best Lawyers in Australia in Shipping & Maritime and Alternative Dispute Resolution, including as ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in Shipping and Maritime in 2019. Justin is a speaker and panel presenter at Australian and international conferences, including to the IBA Maritime Committee of the IBA at the 2022 Miami IBA Annual Conference, speaking on class action and Covid litigation in the international cruise industry. Justin is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.

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Monday 31 October (1115 - 1230)

Room 208, Level 2

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