Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance partner of the Young Arbitrators Match

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance is a sponsor of the 2016 edition of the Young Arbitrators Match (YAM), a competition which offers the opportunity to young arbitration practitioners to write an arbitral award on the basis of a case file based on the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2015 problem and which comprised relevant procedural correspondence and exchanges of written submissions and evidence between the two parties part of the dispute. This year, the dispute concerns the trading of commodities.

Clifford Chance offices of Paris, London, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Hong Kong, Milan, Rome, Dusseldorf, Munich, Frankfort, Bucharest and Perth all contribute to the competition, which is becoming an important event for the international arbitration community.

An initiative proposed by the Paris Very Young Arbitration Practitioners (PVYAP), the inaugural edition of the YAM was voted "Innovation of the Year" in February 2014 in the Global Arbitration Review (GAR) Awards. PVYAP also received a Rising Star award from the OGEMID community in 2013 for its contribution to the emergence of new talents in arbitration.

The first edition of the YAM attracted more than 110 candidates of 37 different nationalities, and has caught the attention of the international arbitration community.

Registrations for the 2^nd edition open on 15 July and close on 30 September 2015. The Jury of this 2016 edition will be chaired by Margarita Louis Dreyfus (Groupe Louis Dreyfus). She will be accompanied by the following jury members:

• Anthony Charlton, Partner, Deloitte
• Coralie Darrigade, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP
• José Ricardo Feris, Deputy Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration
• Simon Greenberg, Partner, Clifford Chance
• Wendy Miles QC, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
• Christophe Seraglini, Professor, Partner, Betto Seraglini

A share of the participants' registrations fees will be donated to Avocats Sans Frontières ("lawyers without borders").

Simon Greenberg, partner at Clifford Chance, has declared "I am looking forward to sit as a jury member of this 2016 edition. The previous one distinguished itself by its innovating spirit, its originality and the quality of the awards given by the young practitioners, as well as the competence of the organizing team. This event is a springboard for new talented arbitration practitioners, which offers them a greater visibility".

Céline Lachmann, lawyer at Clifford Chance and founder of the PVYAP, has declared "We have put a lot of efforts into making YAM 2 even better and bigger than the inaugural edition. The 2016 jury is amazing and I look forward to seeing how the competition develops. YAM provides a new opportunity to gather the international arbitration community, promote cross-generational exchanges and sheds light on the talent of junior and mid level practitioners."

For further information about the competition, click the following link.