About - Third-Party Funding Observatory

The Third-Party Funding Online Observatory

MISSION STATEMENT

The TPF Observatory is an initiative of the ICCA/Queen Mary University of Law Task Force on Third Party Funding.

The TPF Observatory’s mission is to serve as a permanent knowledge database for scholars, commentators, practitioners, and commercial parties interested in the topic of third party funding, whether from an academic, commercial, or policy point of view.

The TPF Observatory aims to achieve its mission through the following:

Undertaking a sustained and in-depth study of third party funding in its commercial, academic, and policy aspects;
Staying updated with the latest developments in the field;
Serving as a timely and comprehensive repository of materials on the topic (including relevant case law, articles, treatises, commentary and blog posts); and
Providing a forum for interested parties to discuss, comment on, and debate issues arising in the field of third party funding. The TPF Observatory is a non-profit initiative [insert appropriate legal disclaimer regarding non-profit status].

Advisory Board

William (Rusty) Park is Professor of Law at Boston University. His practice and teaching focus on international financial and commercial transactions. Park is a member of the Governing Board of ICCA, International Council for Commercial Arbitration. In 2008 the United States appointed Park to the Panel of Arbitrators for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

William (Rusty) W. Park

http://www.williamwpark.com/index.htm

Catherine A. Rogers is a scholar of international arbitration and professional ethics at Penn State Law, with a dual appointment as Professor of Ethics, Regulation, and the Rule of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is also Co-Director of the Institute for Ethics and Regulation.

Catherine A. Rogers

https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/faculty/rogers

Stavros Brekoulakis is a Professor in International Arbitration and Commercial Law at Queen Mary University of London, as well as an attorney-at-law. He teaches courses in International Commercial Arbitration, International Construction Contracts and Arbitration, International Commercial Litigation and Conflict of Laws, International Commercial Law.

Stavros Brekoulakis

http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/staff/brekoulakis.html

Governing Board

Lise Bosman is Senior Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Executive Director and Executive Editor at ICCA.

She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town, a Fellow at the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa) and serves on the Editorial Board of Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage and is a Series Editor of the PCA Award Series.

Lise Bosman

http://www.arbitration-icca.org/about/governing-board/execdirector/lise_bosman.html

Lisa Bingham

Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2

2517KJ The Hague, The Netherlands

Tel: +31 70 302 2832

Fax:+31 70 302 2837

Lisa Bingham

lbingham@pca-cpa.org

OBSERVATORY EDITORS

Duarte Henriques is founder and partner of BCH Lawyers, specializes in international dispute resolution, involving matters of Banking and Finance, Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisition, Commercial Law, Distribution, Construction, and Third-Party Funding.

Promoter of the TPF Online Observatory.

Duarte G. Henriques

dghenriques@bch.pt

Eric Z. Chang, firm founder and Principal, has extensive experience practicing both in civil law and common law systems. He is a former French Avocat à la cour and a current member of the New York and California Bars.

He has practiced in Paris, New York and California on cross-border matters involving parties and disputes in Africa, Europe, the United States, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.

His experience covers a wide range of issues and industries: he has represented commercial clients in cases dealing with construction delays and disruptions, finance, securities and accounting fraud, shareholder disputes, maritime attachments, oil and energy, banking and telecommunications.

He also represents clients on investor-state disputes, including bilateral investment treaty (BIT) arbitration.

Promoter of the TPF Online Observatory.

Eric Z. Chang

eric@changarbitration.com