Brenda Horrigan

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Brenda Horrigan is a US-qualified, internationally recognized arbitration practitioner with over 30 years of extensive global experience, having worked from the US, Paris, Moscow, Shanghai, Sydney and now Singapore.

She commenced her career as a transactional lawyer and has spent more than 20 years focusing exclusively on complex international commercial and investment treaty arbitration matters at both the arbitration and enforcement stages. She left law-firm life in 2021 to focus full-time on work as an independent arbitrator.

Brenda is the immediate past president of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) and remains a member of its Executive Committee. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has acted as arbitrator and/or counsel under a variety of rules, including SIAC, HKIAC, LCIA, ICC, KCAB International, JCAA, SCC, NZIAC, CIETAC, UNCITRAL and ICSID.

Brenda has taught international arbitration as a Global Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University’s Shanghai campus and as a guest lecturer at the University of New South Wales and Australian National University.

She is fluent in English, French and Russian, and speaks some basic (social) Mandarin.