DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE for the Adoption of the UNIDROIT Draft Convention on Agency in the International Sale Of Goods (Geneva, 31 January – 17 February 1983)
ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE
Committee of governmental experts for the revision of the draft Convention providing a Uniform Law on Agency of an International Character in the Sale and Purchase of Goods with a view to the convening in 1982 of a diplomatic Conference for its adoption
UNIDROIT 1982 – Study XIX – Doc. 64
Draft Convention on Agency in the International Sale of Goods. Draft final provisions and explanatory notes thereon prepared by the Secretariat of UNIDROIT)
UNIDROIT 1982 – Study XIX – Doc. 63
Draft Convention on Agency in the International Sale of Goods (Text established by a UNIDROIT Committee of Governmental Experts which met in Rome from 2 to 13 November 1981) with Explanatory Report (prepared by the Secretariat of UNIDROIT
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UNIDROIT 1981 – Study XIX – Doc. 62
Report of the Secretariat of UNIDROIT on the session of the Committee held in Rome from 2 to 13 November 1981
UNIDROIT 1981 – Study XIX – Doc. 61
Commentary on the proposals by the Netherlands delegation
UNIDROIT 1981 – Study XIX – Doc. 60
Proposals by the Netherlands delegation
UNIDROIT 1981 – Study XIX – Doc. 59
Observations of the Norwegian government
UNIDROIT 1981 – Study XIX – Doc. 58
Revised draft articles (prepared by the Secretariat of UNIDROIT)
UNIDROIT 1981 – Study XIX – Doc. 57
Report of a restricted group of experts set up by the Governing Council of UNIDROIT at its 59th session (May 1980) (with an introduction by the Secretariat)
UNIDROIT 1981 – Study XIX – Doc. 56
Final resolution of the Bucharest Conference adopted at its sixteenth plenary meeting on 13 June 1979
Preparatory Group Agency: Informal Meeting for the preparation of the second diplomatic Conference for the adoption of the UNIDROIT draft Convention providing a Uniform Law on Agency of an International Character in the Sale and Purchase of Goods
UNIDROIT 1980 – Prep. Group Agency – Doc. 4
Summary report on the meeting held in Rome from 5 to 10 May 1980 (prepared by the Secretariat of UNIDROIT)
UNIDROIT 1980 – Groupe Prép. Représentation – Doc. 3 [in French only]Propositions concernant les dispositions du projet de Convention qui n’ont pas été adoptées à la Conférence diplomatique de Bucarest (Note du Secrétariat)
UNIDROIT 1980 – Prep. Group Agency – Doc. 2
Proposals relating to those provisions of the draft Convention which were not adopted at the Bucharest Diplomatic Conference (Secretariat memorandum)
UNIDROIT 1979 – Prep. Group Agency – Doc. 1
Final resolution of the Bucharest Conference
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UNIDROIT 1974 – Etude XIX – Doc. 55 [in French and in English]Projet de convention portant loi uniforme sur la représentation dans les rapports internationaux en matière de vente et d’achat d’objets mobiliers corporels. Texte arrêté par le Comité d’experts gouvernementaux réuni par UNIDROIT avec Rapport explicatif / Draft Convention providing a Uniform Law on Agency of an International Character in the Sale and Purchase of Goods. Text established by the Committee of Governmental Experts, convened by UNIDROIT with Explanatory Report
U.D.P. 1973 – Etude XIX – Doc. 54
Draft Convention providing a Uniform Law on Agency of an International Character in the Sale and Purchase of Goods with Explanatory Report by the Secretariat of UNIDROIT
U.D.P. 1972 – Etude XIX – Doc. 53 [in French and in English]Projet de loi uniforme sur la représentation dans les rapports internationaux en matière de vente et d’achat d’objets mobiliers corporels. Texte adopté par le Comité d’experts gouvernementaux, Rome, le 21 juin 1972 / Draft Uniform Law on Agency of an International Character in the Sale and Purchase of Goods. Text as adopted by the Governmental Experts Committee, Rome, June 21, 1972
U.D.P. 1972 – Etude XIX – Doc. 52 and Corr.
Preliminary Draft Uniform Law on Agency of an International Character in the Sale and Purchase of Goods. Explanatory Report
U.D.P. 1971 – Etude XIX – Doc. 51 [in French and in English]Avant projet de loi uniforme sur la représentation dans les rapports internationaux en matière de vente et d’achat d’objets mobiliers corporels. Texte arrêté par le Comité d’experts gouvernementaux réuni par UNIDROIT / Preliminary Draft Uniform Law on Agency of an International Character in the Sale and Purchase of Goods. Text established by the Committee of Governmental Experts, convened by UNIDROIT – Rome, octobre 1971 / Rome, October 1971
U.P.L. 1971 – Study XIX – Doc. 50
Committee of Governmental Experts on Agency and Commission on Sale or Purchase of Goods. Commentary of the Secretariat of UNIDROIT on the Draft Uniform Law on Agency of an International Character in the Sale and Purchase of Goods (Provisional Draft drawn up by the Committee of Experts during its second session, Rome, May 1971, Study XIX – Doc. 49) – Rome, July 1971
U.P.L. 1971 – Study XIX – Doc. 49
Committee of Governmental Experts on Agency and on Commission. Draft Uniform Law on Agency of an International Character in the Sale and Purchase of Goods. Provisional draft drawn up by the Committee of Experts during its second session, Rome, May 1971
U.D.P. 1971 – Study XIX – Doc. 48
Committee of Governmental Experts on Agency and Commission on Sale or Purchase of Goods. Commentary of the Secretariat of UNIDROIT on the draft uniform law on agency of an international character in the sale and purchase of goods (Geneva, December 1970, U.D.P. 1971 – Study XIX – Doc. 47) – Rome, March 1971
U.D.P. 1971 – Etudes XIX – Doc. 47
Committee of Governmental Experts on Agency and on Commission. Draft Uniform Law on Agency of an International Character in the Sale and Purchase of Goods (Geneva, December 1970) – Rome, January 1971
U.D.P. 1970 – Etudes XIX – Doc. 46
Committee of Governmental Experts on Agency and on Commission. Report on the works of the first session (Rome, 29 June to 3 July 1970) – Rome, September 1970
U.D.P. 1970 – Papers: XIX and XXIV – Agency – Doc. 45; Commission on sale or purchase of goods – Doc. 30
Committee of Governmental Experts on Agency and Commission on Sale or Purchase of Goods. Prospects on the unification of the law relating to the activity of intermediaries in commercial matters – Rome, May 1970
U.D.P. 1970 – Papers: XIX and XXIV – Agency – Doc. 44; Commission on sale or purchase of goods – Doc. 29
Committee of Governmental Experts on Agency and Commission on Sale or Purchase of Goods. Analysis of the remarks of governments on the draft Convention providing a uniform law on agency in private law relations of an international character and on the draft Convention providing a uniform law on the contract of commission on the international sale or purchase of goods – Rome, April 1970
U.P.L. 1961 – Paper XIX – Doc. 43
Draft convention providing a uniform law on agency in private law relations of an international character with Explanatory Reports – April 1961
U.D.P. 1961 – Etudes: XIX et XXIV – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 42; Contrats par commissionnaires – Doc. 27 [in French only]Procès Verbaux de la Sous-Commission du Conseil de Direction concernant l’harmonisation entre le projet sur la représentation (LUR) et le projet sur la commission de vente ou d’achat (LUC) – Rome, juillet 1961
U.D.P. 1961 – Etudes: XIX et XXIV – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 41; Contrats par commissionnaires – Doc. 25 [in French only]Harmonisation entre le Projet de loi uniforme sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial dans les rapports internationaux (LUR) et le Projet de loi uniforme sur la commission de vente ou d’achat d’objets mobiliers corporels dans les rapports internationaux (LUR) et le Projet de loi uniforme sur la commission de vente ou d’achat d’objets corporels dans les rapports internationaux (LUC) – Rome, mars 1961
U.D.P. 1960 – Etudes: XIX et XXIV – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 40; Contrats par commissionnaires – Doc. 23 [in French only]Note du Secrétariat sur l’élaboration finale du Projet de loi uniforme sur le contrat de commission de vente ou d’achat d’objets mobiliers corporels dans les rapports internationaux (LUC) et du projet de loi uniforme sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial dans les rapports internationaux (LUR) et Annexes – Rome, décembre 1960
U.D.P. 1960 – Etudes: XIX et XXIV – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 39; Contrats par commissionnaires – Doc. 22 [in French only]Note du Secrétariat sur l’Avant projet d’une loi uniforme sur le contrat de commission à la vente et à l’achat d’objets mobiliers corporels dans les rapports internationaux et sur l’Avant projet d’une loi uniforme sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial dans les rapports internationaux – Rome, avril 1960
U.D.P. 1960 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 38 [in French only]Comité d’étude sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial dans les rapports internationaux. Observations de M. le Dr. Georg Petersen sur l’Avant projet d’une loi uniforme sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial dans les rapports internationaux (Doc. 36) – Rome, mars 1960
U.D.P. 1960 – Etudes: XIX et XXIV – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 37; Contrats par commissionnaires – Doc. 20 [in French only]Comité d’étude sur la commission à la vente et à l’achat dans les rapports internationaux. Observations de M. Algot Bagge sur l’Avant projet d’une loi uniforme sur le contrat de commission à la vente et à l’achat d’objets mobiliers corporels dans les rapports internationaux et sur l’Avant projet d’une loi uniforme sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial dans les rapports internationaux avec Note du Secrétariat, avec Note du Secrétariat – Rome, février 1960
U.D.P. 1954 / U.P.L. 1954 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 36 [in French and in English]Avant projet d’une Loi uniforme sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial dans les rapports internationaux et Rapport illustratif / Preliminary Draft of a Uniform Law on Agency in international relations concerning private law matters of a patrimonial character and Report
U.D.P. 1951 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 35 & errata corrige [in French only]Avant projet d’une Loi uniforme sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial dans les rapports internationaux et Rapport illustratif. Texte révisé à la session de S. Margherita (26 Septembre – 5 Octobre 1950) – Rome, avril 1951
U.D.P. 1950 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 34 [in French only]Septième session du Comité d’études pour les contrats conclus par représentation et pour le contrat de commission. Procès Verbaux (Santa Margherita, 26 septembre – 5 octobre 1950) – Rome, novembre 1950
U.D.P. 1950 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 33 [in French only]Avant projet d’une Loi uniforme sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial dans les rapports internationaux et Rapport illustratif – Rome, juillet 1950
U.D.P. 1950 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 32 [in French only]Observations de M. Joseph Hamel sur l’Avant projet de Loi uniforme concernant les actes de droit privé accomplis au moyen de représentants dans les rapports internationaux. (Texte élaboré à la session de Santa Margherita) – Rome, février 1950
U.D.P. 1949 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 31 [in French only]Avant projet d’une Loi uniforme concernant les actes de droit privé accomplis au moyen de représentants dans les rapports internationaux. Texte élaboré à la session de Santa Margherita (28 septembre – 3 octobre 1949) (U.D.P. 1949) – Rome, octobre 1949
U.D.P. 1949 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 30 [in French only]Sixième session du Comité d’études pour les contrats conclus par représentation et pour le contrat de commission. Procès Verbaux (Santa Margherita, 28 septembre – 3 octobre 1949) – Rome, octobre 1949
U.D.P. 1949 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 29 [in French only]Loi uniforme concernant les actes de droit privé accomplis au moyen de représentants dans les rapports internationaux. Observations du Président de l’Institut relatives à l’Avant projet de Loi uniforme concernant les actes accomplis au moyen de représentants dans les rapports internationaux. (Texte élaboré à la session de Rome, 17-22 mai 1948) – Rome, juillet 1949
U.D.P. 1949 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 28 [in French only]Loi uniforme concernant les actes de droit privé accomplis au moyen de représentants dans les rapports internationaux. Rapport illustratif rédigé par le Professeur E.M. Meijers avec la collaboration du Professeur A. Ravà – Rome, juillet 1949
U.D.P. 1948 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 27 [in French only]Avant projet d’une Loi uniforme concernant les actes de droit privé accomplis au moyen de représentants dans les rapports internationaux. Texte élaboré à la Session de Rome (17-22 mai 1948) – Rome, mai 1948
U.D.P. 1948 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 26 [in French only]Cinquième session du Comité d’études pour les contrats conclus par représentation et pour le contrat de commission. Procès Verbaux (Rome, les 17-22 mai 1948) – Rome, juin 1948
U.D.P. 1948 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 25 [in French only]Loi uniforme concernant les actes de droit privé accomplis au moyen de représentants dans les rapports internationaux. Examen fait par M. Joseph Hamel des observations présentées par M. E.M. Meijers sur le texte de 1’Avant projet arrêté à Territet du 14 au 21 août 1947 – Rome, mai 1948
U.D.P. 1948 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 24 [in French only]Loi uniforme concernant les actes de droit privé accomplis au moyen de représentants dans les rapports internationaux. Observations de M. Meijers au texte de 1’Avant projet arrêté à Territet du 14 au 21 août 1947 (Doc. 23) Rome, avril 1948
U.D.P. 1947 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 23(1) [in French only]Avant projet d’une Loi uniforme concernant les actes de droit privé accomplis au moyen de représentants dans les rapports internationaux. Texte rédigé à Territet du 14 au 21 août 1947, avec modifications de forme proposées par M. Hamel (souligné discontinu) – Rome, octobre 1947
U.P.L. 1948 – Papers: XIX – Uniform Law of Agency – Doc. 23
Preliminary Draft of the Uniform Law of Agency in Private Law Matters of an International Character – Rome, April 1948
U.D.P. 1947 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 22 [in French only]Quatrième session du Comité d’études pour les contrats conclus par représentation. Procès-verbaux (Territet, les 14-21 août 1947) – Rome, octobre 1947
U.D.P. 1947 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 21 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Avant-projet d’une loi uniforme sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial. Texte de Stresa révisé et modifié par MM. Bagge, Hamel et Meijers – Paris, mars 1947
U.D.P. 1947 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 20 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Exposé comparatif des diverses législations se référant aux matières réglées par l’Avant-projet arrêté a Stresa (14-20 octobre 1946) – Rome, mars 1947
U.D.P. 1946 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 19 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Avant-projet d’une loi uniforme sur la représentation en matière de droit privé patrimonial. Texte élaboré au cours de la session de Stresa et révisé, quant au texte français, par M. Hamel – Rome, décembre 1946
U.D.P. 1946 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 18 [in French only]Troisième session du Comité d’études pour les contrats conclus par représentation. Procès-verbaux (Stresa, les 14-20 octobre 1946) – Rome, octobre 1946
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1946 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 12 bis [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Bases adoptées par le Comité dans la session de Stockholm (27-29 octobre 1937) – Rome, octobre 1946
U.D.P. 1946 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 17 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Avant-projet d’une loi uniforme des contrats internationaux conclus par représentation, rédigé par M. Algot Bagge – Rome, octobre 1946
U.D.P. 1946 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 16 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Rapport sur l’ Avant-projet préparé par le Prof. A. Ravà – Rome, août 1946
U.D.P. 1946 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 15 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Avant-projet préparé par le Prof. Adolfo Ravà sur la base des résolutions adoptées par le Comité pendant sa session de Stockholm, les 27-29 octobre 1937 – Rome, juillet 1946
U.D.P. 1944 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 14 [in French only]
Contrats conclus par représentation. Deuxième supplément de dispositions législatives (Lois de l’Amérique du Nord) – Rome, décembre 1944
U.D.P. 1944 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 13 [in French and Russian]Contrats conclus par représentation. Premier supplément de dispositions législatives (Codes récemment promulgués)
U.D.P. 1944 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 12 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Conclusions provisoires – Deuxième rédaction d’après les délibérations adoptées par le Comité pendant sa Session de Stockholm, les 27-29 octobre 1937 – Rome, novembre 1944
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1937 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 11 [in French only]Deuxième session du Comité pour les contrats conclus par représentation. Procès-verbaux (Stockholm, les 27-29 octobre 1937) – Rome, octobre 1937
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1937 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 10 [in French only]Comité pour les contrats conclus par représentation. Projet d’une loi internationale au domaine du droit privé patrimonial sur des contrats conclus en vertu d’un pouvoir volontaire – Rome, octobre 1937
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1937 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 9 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Mémoire du Professeur Eduard Wahl sur le problème de la ”Undisclosed Agency” (Question XVIII du Questionnaire) – Rome, septembre 1937
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1937 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 8 [in English and in French]Contrats conclus par représentation. Note on the “Undisclosed Principal” in English law, by Sir William Graham Harrison / Observations de Sir William Graham Harrison sur le “Undisclosed Principal” dans la loi anglaise
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1937 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 7 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Conclusions provisoires rédigées sur la base des délibérations adoptées par le Comité (Première session, Rome, les 5-7 avril 1937) – Rome, septembre 1937
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1937 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 6 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Note concernant le trust, la procuration irrévocable et l’amortissement d’une procuration, par M. E.M. Meijers – Rome, septembre 1937
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1937 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 5 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Quelques observations quant à une législation uniforme sur le contrat conclu par représentation, par M. Algot Bagge
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1937 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 4 [in French only][Première session du] Comité d’étude pour les contrats conclus par représentation. Proces-verbaux (Rome, les 5-7 avril 1937) – Rome, juillet 1937
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1937 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 3 [in French only]Contrats conclus par représentation. Memorandum de M. Algot Bagge et Note de l’Institut sur le Memorandum
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1936 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 2 [in French only]Questionnaire concernant les contrats conclus par représentation
S.d.N. – U.D.P. 1936 – Etudes: XIX – Contrats par représentation – Doc. 1 [in French only]Des contrats conclus par représentation. Etude préliminaire
Professor Iacopo Donati is the UNIDROIT/Bank of Italy Chair Holder and is mainly responsible for assisting in the Bank Insolvency project. He is Professor of Corporate and Insolvency Law at the University of Siena, and coordinates the research project ‘Pro.Re.Ba.’ (Proportionating rules on bank crisis prevention and management to the case of retail banks), which has received funding from the Italian Ministry of University. He has previously taught corporate law at the University of Venice ‘Ca’ Foscari’, at the University of Florence and at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’.
Professor Donati is the author of several publications on corporate law, restructuring, insolvency law, and bank crisis management. On the same topics, he has been invited as a speaker to various international and national conferences and participated in some high-impact international, European, and national research projects. Professor Donati’s education includes a Ph.D. in Corporate Law (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’), an LLM in Corporate Governance (Stanford Law School), and a Law Degree with honors (University of Florence). He is qualified as an attorney in Italy and in the State of New York (USA).
Ms Olga Fonotova is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law (Department of Legal Regulation of Business) at the Russian National Research University “Higher School of Economics” in Moscow. She holds a PhD degree cum laude in private law / private international law from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (2006). Her academic and teaching interests cover private international law, international and national commercial law, with a focus on unified and non-state legal regulation of cross-border commerce.
Olga is a Russian law qualified practicing lawyer in the sphere of national and international commercial and corporate law with 20+ years’ experience in leading law firms. As part of her legal practice, she has advised multinational corporations on the setting up of multi-jurisdictional commercial relations, on the formation / termination of international joint ventures, restructuring of assets, and financing / refinancing of projects. For her work on commercial and corporate legal matters she was included in the international rating of leading lawyers “The Best Lawyers® in Russia” (2018 – 2022).
She is a UNIDROIT alumna (2011) and a Correspondent of UNIDROIT in Russia (2023 – 2025). From 2016 to 2021 Olga was a member of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice (ICC CLP) and a member of the Association of European Business (AEB) in Moscow.
Allan M. Mukuki, PhD Candidate (Navarra, Spain), LLM (Groningen, Netherlands), PGDip (KSL), LLB (Hons) (UoN), ACIArb (London), Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
Allan Mukuki is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya as well as a Commissioner for Oaths. He is presently a PhD Candidate at the University of Navarra in Spain. He is also a holder of an LL.M in International Law and the Law of International Organizations, from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He has an LL. B (Hons) from the University of Nairobi, he is a Member of the Cha
rtered Institute of Arbitrators (London). He further holds a post-graduate diploma in law from the Kenya School of Law. Allan is also a scholar from the Hague Academy of International Law.
Some of his many roles in the legal profession include Director of International Partnerships; a Doctoral Fellow; member of the Management Committee and moot court coordinator, all for Strathmore Law School; Research Fellow for the African Region (Kenya), for the European Research Council Grant Project on the interpretation of customary international law; and Acting Director for the Strathmore Institute of Advanced Studies in International Criminal Justice (SIASIC)
Allan has previously worked at A.F Gross Advocate; in various legal institutes; in governmental agencies and in the Judiciary of Kenya. He was also a Legal researcher in the Office of the Solicitor General, Kenya, for the Maritime Delimitation in the Indian Ocean (Somalia v. Kenya), a case that was before the International Court of Justice. His main areas of specialization include Public International Law, The Law of International Organizations, International Humanitarian Law, International and Regional (EAC) Refugee Law and Legal Policy Development.
Further, Allan has been involved in various national and international legal consultancies and projects; he has published several peer reviewed legal articles, a legal monograph and presented several legal papers in international conferences around the world. He has also developed several policy documents for Strathmore University as well as (currently operational) manuals and laws for the operation of the Judiciary as well as governmental agencies and regional agencies such as IGAD.
ANDREA SANTACOLOMA
Director
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Andrea Santacoloma is a Panamanian lawyer that focuses her practice on international commercial arbitration.
Prior to joining Adell & Merizalde, Andrea was the Deputy Director for Latin America of the ICC International Court of Arbitration for 5 years. In this role, she gained vast experience in the internal functioning of the ICC’s Secretariat and Court and saw first-hand the work of hundreds of arbitrators and ICC Court Members in the region. Andrea was also in charge of identifying new opportunities and potential users of the ICC Dispute Resolution Services (ICC DRS) in Latin America, in liaison with the ICC National Committees and other institutions in the region. She also worked as a lawyer advising local and international clients on business and corporate law and M&A in 3 Panamanian law firms.
She is currently the Executive Director of the Latin American Arbitration Association (ALARB), one of Latin America’s leading associations gathering practitioners and arbitrators, which seeks to encourage the use of arbitration and foster initiatives for the development of international arbitration in the region.
In July 2022, the G
overning Council of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) appointed Andrea as a Correspondent for Latin America. Namely, Andrea was appointed as a Correspondent for the Republic of Panama for the period 2022-2025.
EDUCATION
• American University Washington College of Law, LL.M. in International Arbitration and Business Law
• International Training Centre of the International Labor Organization (ILO) jointly with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Università degli Studi di Torino, and University Institute of European Studies (IUSE), LL.M. in International Trade Law & Dispute Resolution
• Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua, LL.M. in Corporate Law
• Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua, Degree in Law and Political Science
• Centro de Estudios Regionales de Panamá, Diploma in Entrepreneurship and Management of Small and Medium Enterprises
Bar admissions
Republic of Panama
Languages
Spanish, English, Italian (intermediate)
asantacoloma@adellmerizalde.com
+507 370 4155
NAME: PROF. DR. HERNANY VEYTIA (LL.M. YALE)
AFFILIATION DIRECTOR BNM-CAMBRIDGE STUDY CENTRE ON SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS
PRESENTATION
Professor of law, international strategic consultant, arbitrator, and entrepreneur. Hernany Veytia is very comfortable with complex, high-profile and confidential transactions. Her consulting experience as partner of BNM and Deloitte enables her to focus on and add value to the sustainable and commercial aspects of each deal. Frequently she leads transdisciplinary teams to deliver fact findings and legal opinions, feasibility studies and turn-key projects for banks, governments, international organisations, and corporations willing to expand or withdraw operations in other jurisdictions.
In Prof Veytia’s experience UNIDROIT works have been very useful to understand not only the foreign law, but also to recognise the cultural, political, and economic factors at play, and the way national and international regulators operate-and cooperate. In her opinion, UNIDROIT instruments have been of utmost importance for the legal strategies she designed for:
• DANPREIT (Dispute Analytics Platform for Real Estate Investment Trusts in the Agriculture, Construction and Mining industries).
• TELEKAIROS, innovative methodology that incorporates the use of space assets.
• Corporate art collections, restitutions, including donations, sponsorships, and loans to museums.
• Contracts used by a German waterworks company willing to grow in all the Caribbean and Central American countries.
• Liquidation of commercial and investment banks
• IPOs and reverse mergers for companies in the extraction industries (Canadian stock exchange), ILS listed in Bermuda and African sovereign funds listed in London.
• Franchising and other commercial contracts in the food & drinks, health, aero-space, and automotive industries.
In the last three decades Prof. Veytia has lived, and successfully completed investments and disinvestments in more than forty countries in the five Continents. She is frequently appointed as arbitrator and invited as speaker on risk transfers at international industry conferences in fields of her expertise: energy (both renewable and traditional), artificial intelligence, infrastructure, mining, real estate, agriculture, rail, space, automotive, and franchising. She sits in the board of directors of companies in Europe including the United Kingdom.
Anna Veneziano is the Deputy Secretary General of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). She is a Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Teramo, Italy, where she was formerly the Director of the Department of Private Law. She has also formerly been a tenured Professor of European Property Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Her education includes a Law Degree with honours from the University of Rome La Sapienza, an LL.M degree from the Yale Law School funded by a Fulbright scholarship, and a PhD degree from the University of Florence (Italy).
Her main research and publication areas are on secured transactions as well as international, comparative, and European contract and sales law. Before joining UNIDROIT she was a member of the Italian delegation with respect to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests on Mobile Equipment and its Aircraft Protocol as well as its Space Protocol. She was also a member of the Study Group on a European Civil Code and of the Compilation and Redaction Group on a Draft Common Frame of Reference on European Private Law (DCFR), and of the restricted Expert Group set up by the European Commission on a common European law on sales.
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rofessor Ignacio Tirado was appointed Secretary-General by the Governing Council at its 97th session, and officially took office on 27 August 2018. A national of Spain, Professor Tirado (Commercial, Corporate and Insolvency Law, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain) holds a PhD from the Universities of Bologna and Autónoma de Madrid and an LLM from the University of London. Professor Tirado has been a Senior Legal Consultant at the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency and Financial Sector Practice for more than nine years, having also consulted for the IMF on insolvency related matters as well as for the Asian Development Bank on commercial legal reform.
Amongst other accolades to his professional experience, Professor Tirado is a founding member of the European Banking Institute, an International Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and has been Director and Academic Co-Chair of the International Insolvency Institute.
A Swedish national, Ms Lena Peters grew up in Italy where she attended an English school. In 1978 she took her Juris Kandidatexamen at Stockholm University followed by a Master of Laws from King’s College, London (1979). Since 1985 she has been with UNIDROIT, first as Research Officer, lastly as Principal Legal Officer, her main duties being Secretary to the Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts, Secretary to the Study Group on Franchising, Secretary to the Committee of Governmental Experts on Franchising.She also collaborated on the project for the preparation of the ELI-Unidroit Model European Rules of Civil Procedure. She is currently Managing Editor of the Uniform Law Review and responsible for publications at UNIDROIT.
Marina Schneider is Principal Legal Officer and Treaty Depositary at UNIDROIT. She studied law at the University of Strasbourg (France) and Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne. She joined the UNIDROIT in 1987 and was involved in the elaboration and French versions of most UNIDROIT instruments since. She is in charge of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects and of the UNESCO-UNIDROIT Model Provisions on State Ownership of Undiscovered Cultural Objects. She is the author of the Explanatory Report of the 1995 Convention and many articles on the Convention and other international instruments in the field. Ms Schneider is also responsible for the project on private collections and for the UNIDROIT Convention Academic Project (UCAP). She is member of the Board of the International Society for Research on Art and Cultural Heritage Law (ISCHAL).
Professor of Commercial Law, Carlos III University of Madrid. Currently, Sir Roy Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT, Rome, 2021-2022. Chair of Excellence 2017-2018 at University of Oxford (Uc3m- Santander Program), affiliated to Harris Manchester College. Previously Distinguished Visiting Professor and fellow of a number of Academic Institutions. Arbitrator of Madrid Court of Arbitration. Member of ELI (European Law Institute) Council and Executive Committee. Member of the Expert Group of the European Commission on Liability and New Technologies and member of the Expert Group of the European Observatory of Platform Economy; the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law; the expert group of the Inclusive Global Legal Innovation Platform for Online Dispute Resolution – UNCITRAL and Hong Kong Department of Justice. Expert of the UNIDROIT Study Group on the MAC Protocol of the Cape Town Convention on International Interests. Delegate of Spain to UNIDROIT for the adoption of the Protocol, delegate of Spain in Working Group VI of UNCITRAL on secured transactions and in Working Group IV on Electronic Commerce. Member of UNIDROIT Working Groups on Enforcement and Warehouse Receipts.
William Brydie-Watson is an Australian lawyer who specialises in secured transactions law and private international law. Before joining UNIDROIT, William was a government lawyer in the Private International Law and International Arbitration section of the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, where he worked primarily on treaty negotiation and the implementation of private international law treaties in Australia. At UNIDROIT, he is primarily responsible for the implementation of the Mining, Agriculture and Construction (MAC Protocol) to the 2001 Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the development of a Model Law on Factoring. William also serves as UNIDROIT’s liaison with the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and as manager of the Institute’s Scholarship and Internship Programme. Admitted to practice in New South Wales and the High Court of Australia, he has a Bachelor of Arts (honours), a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws from the Australian National University. William also lectures on International Secured Transactions Law at the Eotvos Lorand Faculty of Law in Budapest.
