Tomas Vail

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Contact Details
First Name
Tomas
Firm
Vail Dispute Resolution
Position
Principal
Area of Specialisation / Arbitration Experience
Commercial Arbitration, Investment Dispute, Joint Ventures / Consortia / Shareholder Agreements, Metals and Mining, Oil and Gas, Telecommunications
London
United Kingdom
E-Mail
tomas@vail-dr.com
Phone
+447809512616
Website
http://vail-dr.com
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasvail/
Languages
English, French, Russian
Nationality
United Kingdom, USA
Membership Status
YAAP
Professional Details
Bar Admission

England and Wales (Solicitor)

• United States (Attorney and Counsellor at Law, New York)

Education

American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC USA, Juris Doctor, 2009

Université Paris X Nanterre, Paris, France, Masters studies in International Commercial Arbitration and Private International Law

Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, 2005

Publications

•  “Article 26 - Expert appointed by arbitral tribunal” (with Karim Mariey) in Commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (ed. Ilias Bantekas), Cambridge University Press, 2020

• “The Brčko Arbitration: A Process for Lasting Peace between Non-State Actors" in Non-State Actors and International Obligations: Creation, Evolution and Enforcement (ed. James Summers), Nijhoff, 2017 (forthcoming)

• “Mitigating investment risk – treaty planning and damages claims against state entities” (with Dipen Sabharwal), Financier Worldwide, 2018

• "The English courts’ discretion on foreign policy issues post-Brexit", Commercial Dispute Resolution (with Ed Attenborough), 2017

• "Would World Duty Free v Kenya be decided differently today?", Global Arbitration Review, 2016

• "Ethics and the Arbitral Secretary", The Institute for Transnational Arbitration, News & Notes, 2016

• "Arbitrator's award of third party funding costs upheld by High Court", White & Case Alert, 2016 (with Robert Wheal and Luiz Aboim)

• "Advice to Young Arbitrators: Interviews with Leading Practitioners", The Institute for Transnational Arbitration, News & Notes, 2016

• "Retention And Advancement Of Women In The Law Firm Environment", The Institute for Transnational Arbitration, News & Notes, 2016

“Award” (Chapter 9, with Professor Martin Hunter) in Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration (Sixth Edition), Nigel Blackaby, Constantine Partasides, et al., Oxford University Press, 2015

• "Does The "Culture" Of International Arbitration Serve Its Users?", Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 2015

Professional Associations

Appointed as legal specialist in investment treaty arbitration to the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative

 • Advisory Board member of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and 2017-2019 UK Regional Chair for the Young ITA

• Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

• Member of the 2017-2019 Y-ADR Steering Committee of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR)

• Member of the Executive Committee of the Russian and CIS Arbitration Network (RCAN)

• Member of the LCIA (YIAG), ICC (YAF), ICDR (Y&I), Young ICCA, Young ICSID and IBA

• Member of Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), the Russian and CIS Arbitration Network (RCAN), British Russian Law Association (BRLA), Anglo-Russian Law Association (ARLA), Russophone Lawyers in International Commercial Arbitration (RYUMKA)

 • Judge in UK national rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (2011-2019)