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Keith J. Hand is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for East Asian Legal Studies at the University of California Law, San Francisco.  He brings more than 25 years of professional experience in private practice, government, and academia to his teaching and research.  After graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in 2000, he joined the New York office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions and private equity funds. He later served as senior counsel to the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China and as Beijing director, senior fellow, and lecturer-in-law at Yale Law School’s China Law Center.  At UC Law SF, Professor Hand teaches Contracts, International Business Transactions, and several specialized courses on the Chinese legal system.  His research focuses on legal reform in Greater China, and he has been cited as an expert on Chinese legal issues in a wide range of leading media.  Professor Hand is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and a non-resident scholar with the 21st Century China Center at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. 

Prof. Dr. Peter Huber is professor of law at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz (Germany) where he holds the chair for private law, conflict of laws and comparative law. His main interests lie in the fields of International Sales Law, German and Comparative Contract Law and in the area of International Litigation and Arbitration. Dr. Huber has published several books and articles on these issues and teaches them regularly. He is the Head Coach of the Mainz University team for the W.C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition and the Foreign Direct Investment Moot Competition. Visiting appointments have led him to the Hague Academy of International Law, Nihon University Tokyo, New York University, Tulane Law School, the University of Georgia (Athens) and the University of Burgundy (Dijon).

Prof. Jungmann serves as Program Director Law for the Master Program of Bucerius Law School and also coordinates the Diploma in Business Law Program at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. In addition, he is a practicing lawyer in his capacity as the Group Director Corporate Law and Structure of BIRKENSTOCK Group in Linz am Rhein. His primary fields of research are insolvency and restructuring law, corporate law (including corporate governance), banking law and corporate finance.

Prof. Jungmann studied law at the University of Bonn and the University of Edinburgh. He holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School and an M.Sc. in Finance from the University of Leicester. He is both, a university-certified Compliance Officer and a Business Mediator, and was managing partner of the law firm DUVINAGE in Munich and Hamburg.

He spent a year as an academic visitor at the London School of Economics and was/is a lecturer in law at the University of Surrey, the University of Fribourg, the Leuphana University Lüneburg, the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. He has published numerous articles on corporate, banking and insolvency law in leading law journals. He received the Best Teacher Award of the Master Program of Bucerius Law School four times, and was awarded the Bucerius Alumni Prize for Outstanding Teaching in 2011.

Prof. Kröll is one of the directors of the Center of International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius and one of the leading arbitrators in Germany. He is a director of the Willem C. Vis Arbitration Moot and the Chairman of the German Arbitration Institute, acting also as one of Germany's national correspondents to UNCITRAL for arbitration and international commercial law.

Prof. Kröll is the (co-)author and editor of several leading books on international arbitration including "Comparative International Commercial Arbitration" (Kluwer 2003, with Lew and Mistelis) and "International Commercial Arbitration – A Transnational Perspective" (6th ed. 2015, with Várady and Barcelò).

Kröll is a visiting professor at the School of International Arbitration at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (Queen Mary College, University of London) and regularly lectures for other leading Universities on arbitration, litigation and international contract law. He is member of the board of editors of several international journals on international arbitration and commercial law.

Prof. Dr. René A. Pfromm is the Managing Director of Pfromm Consulting, a globally active advisory firm for strategic negotiations and law firm profitability. He advises negotiation teams and individuals on planning, conducting, and successfully closing their challenging negotiation projects. He also works with law firm partners and associates, in-house counsel, business executives and sales/purchasing teams to improve their negotiation impact. Another focus of his work is coaching and advising lawyers on legal pitching, legal pricing, and fee negotiations. His clients comprise law firms and companies of all sizes, from the global elite to local champions, and are mainly based in Europe and Asia.

Prior, Prof. Dr. Pfromm was a lawyer with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Germany and China, including a client secondment to E.ON AG. He lectures negotiations at Bucerius Law School and other leading universities and executive education programs, and is a business mediator. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (LL.M.), King’s College London (M.A. Econ) and the University of Bonn (Dr. iur.).

Professor Loes Lennarts holds the full-time chair in Comparative Company Law at the University of Groningen (Institute of Company Law). Loes specialises in (comparative and international) company law and insolvency law.

She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Groningen, where she defended a thesis on liability of corporate groups. Loes was involved in various research projects commissioned by the WODC, the research centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. Since May 2017 she is a member of the Commissie Vennootschapsrecht [Company Law Commission], an advisory council of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, that advises the Dutch government on matters of company law.

Loes is a fellow of the Dutch Insolvency Practitioners Association (Vereniging Insolventierecht Advocaten (INSOLAD)) and a member of the editorial boards of Tijdschrift voor Insolventierecht (Review of Insolvency Law), Tekst & Commentaar Ondernemingsrecht (Text and Commentary Company Law) and Rechtspraak Ondernemingsrecht (Company Law Reports) all published by WoltersKluwer. She publishes and lectures in Dutch and English on topics of (comparative) company law and corporate governance. On several occasions, she gave her expert opinion on issues of Dutch company law in cases that were subject to litigation or arbitration in the Netherlands and abroad.