Hamid Abdulkareem will speak at the session “Investor-state dispute settlement: what’s the future?” at the IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024.
This session will explore the changes to be expected around the world in view of States’ evolving attitudes towards investment protections and dispute resolution mechanisms in investment treaties.
Hamid will speak alongside Bernardo Cremades (B Cremades y Asociados), Montserrat Manzano (Von Wobeser & Sierra), and Huawei Sun (Zhong Lun Law Firm), and the panel will be moderated by Xavier Andrade (AVL Abogados) and Diora Ziyaeva (Dentons).
The panel will take place on Thursday 19 September from 2:30pm to 3:45pm, at the Palacio de Valparaiso in Mexico City.
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ABOUT HAMID ABDULKAREEM
Hamid, counsel in the London office, is an experienced arbitration practitioner and litigator, having regularly advised multinational companies on an extensive range of disputes, particularly within the energy and natural resources sector. He has played a lead role in multiple disputes arising from Nigeria’s deep offshore production sharing contracts, resulting in successful outcomes for his clients.
Hamid is a current Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Insolvency and International Arbitration Working Group, the Young Africa Chair for the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and a member of the Lagos Court of Arbitration’s Young Arbitrators Network’s Advisory Board. He previously served as Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Arb40 subcommittee.