Kathryn Khamsi, a partner in the Paris office of Three Crowns LLP, has extensive experience acting for corporate clients and States in all types of disputes, including investment treaty and commercial arbitrations. She is particularly sought after in high value disputes that raise complex issues of fact and law. Clients have commended Kathryn’s “grasp of the technical detail, and her ability to identify and articulate game changing arguments”. She is recommended by Chambers, Who’s Who Legal, and The Legal 500.
Kathryn also sits as arbitrator and is serving a six-year term on the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators. She has lectured and published extensively on questions of international arbitration and public international law, including most recently on the subject of deep seabed mining, emissions trading schemes, and the use of artificial intelligence-based tools in arbitration.
Kathryn, who speaks English and French, is admitted in Paris, New York, and Ontario. She holds an A.B from Harvard, LLB and BCL degrees from McGill, and an LLM from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a James Kent Scholar.
What opportunities are offered by a diverse range of dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration? How can in-house functions minimise both litigation risk and the vicious circle of spiralling costs being erroneously laid at the door of the legal function - and the ‘cost-centre’ fallacies which come with this?
Thursday 08 February 10:10 - 11:00 Insiders Stage
General Counsel Forum
What opportunities are offered by a diverse range of dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration? How can in-house functions minimise both litigation risk and the vicious circle of spiralling costs being erroneously laid at the door of the legal function - and the ‘cost-centre’ fallacies which come with this?
Insiders Stage Africa/Johannesburg