Claire Morel de Westgaver is a Partner in International Arbitration at Ontier LLP, practising as counsel, advocate and arbitrator from the firm’s London office.
Claire has particular expertise in disputes involving technology, corporate transactions, licensing, cross-border sales and service agreements, secrecy, intellectual property and cybersecurity. Her practice spans a broad range of industries, including IT, pharmaceuticals, retail, engineering, energy, agribusiness, media, art and defence.
She has experience of proceedings under the LCIA, ICC, AAA/ICDR, UNCITRAL, WIPO, CEPANI and CCJA arbitration rules, as well as ad hoc proceedings. She has handled arbitrations involving the laws of England and Wales, New York, Texas, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Japan, China, Singapore, Pakistan, Qatar, Equatorial Guinea, Romania, Saint Lucia, Senegal and other jurisdictions.
Claire regularly writes and speaks on arbitration-related subjects, including technology and AI in arbitral proceedings, technology disputes, cybersecurity in international arbitration and the preservation of trade secrets. She is Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Technology Group and the AI Guidelines working group, and is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR’s Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in Dispute Resolution.
Claire is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an attorney in New York. She is a member of the LCIA EDI Steering Group, the IBA Arbitration Committee Taskforce on Privilege, the Editorial Board of b-Arbitra and the Advisory Board of CyberArb.