JMiles & Co. was a proud sponsor and organizer of the Young ICCA Skills Workshop held at Apollo Centre, Nairobi, Kenya on 17 September 2015.
The theme of the workshop was “The Role of Local Counsel in International Arbitration”. Speakers included industry experts and prominent arbitrators such as Professor Albert Jan van den Berg, Njeri Kariuki, Dr. Kariuki Muigua and Aisha Abdallah, and also included younger practitioners such as Sean Omondi, Noella Lubano and Nikhil Desai (Assistant Director at JMiles & Co.), giving the audience a broad range of perspectives from their cumulative years of experience.
The event, which reached maximum capacity, engendered an active dialogue, moderated by Rubin Mukkam-Owuor (Senior Associate at JMiles & Co.), between the panel speakers and the audience and made evident the interest and enthusiasm for arbitration amongst young practitioners in Africa today.