10 - 14 NOVEMBER 2025
This event will explore current ADR trends and developments, whether arbitration remains fit for purpose in today’s dispute resolution landscape and how the process can be managed to deliver more timely and cost-effective outcomes.
The session will include a panel debate featuring local and international counsel and conclude with networking drinks and canapes.
Enforceability has historically been perceived as arbitration’s greatest advantage. Yet, in an era where the enforceability of arbitral awards faces unprecedented challenges, trust in the system’s efficacy is eroding. Delays and jurisdictional hurdles, together with arbitrary interpretations of public policy and the enactment of local legislation that allows parties to evade liability under awards, call for a concerted response from the arbitration community to ensure the sustainability of the system. The speakers will share perspectives from different jurisdictions, exchange views on current threats to enforceability, and propose legal reforms—such as the creation of new international instruments—while also discussing lessons from high-profile enforcement successes (and failures).
Moderator: Evgeny Raschevsky, Partner, EPAM Law
Speakers:
– Vladimir Talanov, Partner, EPAM Law
– Natalia Soldatenkova, Senior Associate, EPAM Law
– Ali Al Zarooni, Managing Partner, Horizons & Co
– Olga Bischof, Partner, PCB Byrne
– Abraham Vergis, S.C., Managing Director, Providence Law
– Timo Ylikantola, Partner, Ratiolex
This session will explore how early neutral facilitation can be used as a proactive mechanism for dispute prevention, de-escalation, and resolution
in large-scale projects—particularly within the construction, infrastructure, and energy sectors in the Middle East and globally.
The Padel Matcha Social aims to include padel coaching and 30 minute padel matches, as well as networking over matcha tasting.
As trade winds change direction, moving west to east, it is unsurprising to see international arbitration in places outside North America and Europe. The traditional arbitration centres of Paris and London now compete with Singapore, Dubai, and others from Asia and beyond.
In a sense, we have been here before, some of the earliest trading between civilisations, over 4000 years ago, was between the Indus Valley Civilisation in the Indian Subcontinent with the Mesopotamians. Well before the Portuguese ships arrived in India in the 17th century, during the Abbasid dynasty (8th-12th centuries), Arab traders used the alternating monsoon winds to navigate the Indian Ocean; hence, their name derives from the Arabic word “Mausam” for the weather. During the 9th and 12th centuries, Arab and Persian merchants traded with East African coastal states, with ships plying the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf, bringing import and export goods between the East Indies, China, India, the Arab Lands, Persia, and East Africa. It was a time of great contact between cultures, during which some 37 city-states emerged in what is now Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique.
Not too far away north, on land, along the Silk Road, Persian, Chinese, Arab, Armenian, and Russian traders and missionaries travelled the Silk Road, and in 1335 a Mongol mission to the Pope at Avignon confirmed increased trade and cultural contacts.
But today’s trade goes beyond diverse geographical dynamics, occurring in an increasingly digital space cutting across traditional boundaries.
Looking ahead, what does this mean for the resolution of disputes by international arbitration – and what will the UAE’s role be in this evolving landscape. Join SADRC for a discussion on the challenges and opportunities the changing arbitration landscape brings to the UAE and beyond.
Horizons & Co joins Peters & Peters for Routes to Justice Strategies at the Crossroads of Criminal, Civil, and Arbitral Disputes during Dubai Arbitration Week.
Disputes today rarely stay in one lane. Criminal, civil and arbitral proceedings often collide, raising tough questions on strategy, timing and client protection.
This practical session explores how these different routes overlap, how to manage parallel proceedings effectively, and how to make smart tactical choices that can shape the outcome. Expect candid insights, real case lessons and an open discussion on what really works and what does not when justice paths intersect.
Global Arbitration Review is delighted to announce the return of GAR Live: Dubai, taking place during Dubai Arbitration Week on 12 November 2025.
Join us in one of the world’s major global arbitration hubs for a day of thought-provoking discussions, practical insights and engaging exchanges on the evolving landscape of international arbitration.
With over 200 leading practitioners from across the UAE and wider MENA region expected to attend, GAR Live: Dubai offers a platform to share experiences, build connections and strengthen your professional networking. Enjoy more than 3 hours of dedicated networking time in a vibrant and collaborative setting.
The discussion will include:
How should arbitrators deal with AI in their procedural orders.
Efficiency gains from AI:
Client perspective – cost reductions
Law firm perspective:
Does it change the billable hour model?
Passing on costs of AI
Training for junior lawyers
Responsible use of AI
Issue spotting
Using AI in the lifecycle of a dispute
What are the tools?
What are the use cases?
Proper prompting
Experts – what are the use cases?
What does the future of AI look like in disputes?
AI Agents? What are they capable of
Moderator:
Rodrigo Carè – Galadari Advocates & Legal Consultants, Young ICCA Regional Representative
Speakers:
As deal making surges across India and the MENA region, driven by accelerated privatization, cross-border investment, and evolving business environments, the frequency and complexity of shareholder and M&A disputes is increasing. These disputes often sit at the intersection of commercial expectations and legal frameworks and navigate complicated issues around valuation, governance, control, and exit.
This panel brings together leading arbitration practitioners and quantum experts to examine disputes both the entry and exit stages of transactions. In particular, the panel will focus on breach of warranty and misrepresentation claims, disputes involving purchase price and earn-out calculations, and enforcement of exit rights, change in control provisions and deadlock resolution clauses.
With a focus on practical insights and regional nuances, the panel will offer an in-depth look at how parties should assess, anticipate, and address risks in transactional relationships across India and the MENA region.
Program:
8:45 to 9:00 – Registration and Breakfast
9:00 to 9:15 – Opening remarks
9:15 to 10:15 – Panel Discussion
10:15 to 10:30 – Closing and Q&A
10:30 to 11:00 – Networking Coffee
Speakers:
Ishani Vora, Osborne Partners
Andrew Mackenzie, DLA Piper
Prithvi Rohan Kapoor, Partner, SKAA
Juhi Mathur, Partner, Trilegal
Ivana Dahl, ADNOC Group
Jahnvi Jhaveri, DLA Piper and DVYAP (Moderator