Andrew Bennett

Solicitor, Baker McKenzie

Andrew is a Senior Lawyer with Senior Leadership, Culture Change, and Project Management experience. He currently works in the Knowledge team of Baker McKenzie, specialising in research, training, and legal updates for the Dispute Resolution (encompassing Arbitration) and Investigations, Compliance and Ethics teams. He is also heavily involved in creating, testing, and introducing efficiency savings and quality improvements through Generative AI.

For almost 9 years, Andrew was a member of the senior management team of the Allen & Overy Belfast office (Advanced Delivery Legal), specialising in the handling of international arbitration and banking disputes, and working with offices around the A&O worldwide network. Andrew had a particular focus on Legal Technology and was Head of LegalTech for the Belfast contentious disputes and investigations team.

Before Allen & Overy, Andrew worked in one of UK's leading corporate criminal/health and safety/regulatory legal teams at Eversheds Sutherland where he advised and represented corporate clients going through regulatory authority and Police investigations, prosecutions, Coroner Inquests and criminal trials following deaths or serious injuries at work. Andrew was also seconded to work on two substantial public inquiries.

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Comparing international investment arbitration rules

Practice Notes

This Practice Note compares the key features of the international investment treaty arbitration rules of several institutions/bodies, ie the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

Arbitration