On 26 March 2018, KNOETZL hosted the Annual Event of the German-Austrian Chapter of the Club Español del Arbitraje (“CEA”) and the CEA-40 on the occasion of the 25^th Willem C. Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot.

The topic of this year event was “Transparency and Challenge of Arbitrators”. After the opening words of Emmanuel Kaufman (President of the German – Austrian Chapter of the CEA, KNOETZL), Juan Fernandez Armesto (CEA President, Armesto & Asociados, Madrid) gave a keynote-address on the relevance of transparency in international arbitration.

The keynote was followed by a panel moderated by Felipe Sperandio (Clyde & Co, London). During the panel discussion, Mr Paul Di Pietro (ICC, Paris), Ms Heidi Merikalla-Teir (The Finland Arbitration Institute, Helsinki) and Ms Elisabeth Vanas-Metzler (VIAC, Vienna) provided the views and practices of the different institutions. Finally, Mr Lukas Montoya (Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva) presented the topic from the counsel’s perspective.

The participants actively contributed to the debate with questions and remarks based on their own experience from practice.