ICC YAAF: Tips and tricks for working with experts

Please join us for a panel discussion with experts and practitioners from in and outside Japan, as we explore how we can best leverage expert evidence in international arbitration.

ICC YAAF is delighted to hold an in-person panel discussion with distinguished experts and arbitration specialists, to explore how lawyers can best work with experts, and leverage expert evidence in international arbitrations.

Dr. Kourosh Kayvani from HKA and Mr Keita Fukunaga from AlixPartners are looking forward to sharing their experience and insights into providing expert evidence, and their views on how lawyers can best work with experts. We will also hear from Ms Seri Takahashi, from Mori Hamada Matsumoto, on how she leverages expert evidence in international arbitration. Speakers will compare and contrast views from counsel’s position with those of the experts.

There will also be time for questions (in either English or Japanese).

HKA speaker at the conference

Dr. Kourosh Kayvani
Partner, Head of Forensic Technical Services, Asia Pacific
E: KouroshKayvani@hka.com

Dr. Kourosh Kayvani is a Chartered Professional Engineer with over 30 years of experience. He has been appointed as a technical expert, and supported the named expert, on numerous occasions.

Kourosh has been cross-examined in litigation and has delivered expert reports for disputed projects and structural failures in long-span roofs and industrial processes and infrastructure.

Kourosh’s experience spans academia, expert advisory, expert witness roles, and engineering practise. He has played leading roles in the design and delivery of many innovative, complex, and award-winning projects across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the UK, the Middle East, and Africa. His project portfolio includes Wembley Stadium in London, West Kowloon Terminus in Hong Kong, 5 Martin Place commercial tower and Bankwest Stadium in Sydney, ANSTO OPAL nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights near Sydney, and Melbourne Star Observation Wheel, amongst many others.

Kourosh’s expertise involves structural analysis, design and construction engineering of sports stadia, tall buildings, cable-supported structures and bridges, long-span roofs, telecommunication towers, and impact-resistant and vibration sensitive facilities.  He has specialised experience in finite element analysis (FEA), wind engineering, aseismic design, fatigue assessment, and development of design codes and standards.

Kourosh is a fellow, and board director, of Engineers Australia, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, an adjunct professor at the University of Sydney’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a board director at the Australian Steel Institute. He has received numerous awards and plaudits for his structural engineering prowess, with particular emphasis on his contribution to long-span structures worldwide. Kourosh has also served as member of Standards Australia’s code committees for concrete structures (AS3600) and wind loads (AS1170.2) for many years.

If you have any questions, please write to AsiaPacific@hka.com.