MARTIN POLAINE Barrister PRACTICE AREAS: Anti-Corruption, AML/Financial Regulatory, Dispute Resolution, Public International Law, International/Transactional Criminal Law Martin Polaine is a barrister (England & Wales) of over 30 years’ experience, a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and a Fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (FAIADR). He has advised states, corporates and individuals in Africa, Asia and Europe on anti-corruption, AML/financial regulatory, dispute resolution, public international law and international/transnational criminal law. He has extensive experience in civil law, as well as common law, states and his practice includes international arbitration (both commercial and state-investor), international trade and sale of goods, treaty drafting, international human rights law and international co-operation. He also has a complementary background as a former senior prosecutor. Martin has had conduct of numerous complex and sensitive cases, with a particular focus on those with an international element, and serves as an expert for international organisations (including Commonwealth Secretariat, Council of Europe, EU, UN agencies and the OECD). He has extensive experience in advising at ministerial and senior official level. His wide-ranging representational roles have included treaty negotiation and serving as the UK’s legal representative on the OECD Working Group on Bribery. In addition to his regulated legal practice, he is also a director of a legal consultancy that provides specialist advice on crisis preparedness & management and corporate procedure/governance stress-testing. Martin is a published author of legal texts (including ‘Corruption & Misuse of Public Office’ (Oxford University Press, 2006) and ‘Counter-Terrorism Law & Practice: An International Handbook’ (Oxford University Press, 2009)) and many conference and journal papers. He also teaches law at postgraduate level and is the author of (and tutor for) the ‘International Trade & Investment Law’ component of the LLM course provided by the Australian College of Law. ARVINDER SAMBEI Barrister PRACTICE AREAS: Anti-Corruption, AML/Financial Regulatory, Public International Law, International/Transactional Criminal Law Arvinder Sambei is a practising barrister of over 30 years’ experience and one of the directors of London-based Amicus Legal Consultants. She has previously held the posts of Head of Criminal Law at the Commonwealth Secretariat, Legal Adviser to the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ) at the UK’s Ministry of Defence and Principal/Senior Crown Prosecutor (Crown Prosecution Service of England & Wales). As a prosecutor, she had conduct of many of the UK’s high profile extradition, counter-terrorism, transnational and war crimes cases. In addition, her responsibilities included liaison with other jurisdictions on treaty negotiations, extradition and mutual legal assistance requests. As the Head of the Criminal Law Section at the Commonwealth Secretariat, she was responsible for ensuring design and delivery of programmes of assistance and training for member states to enhance criminal law systems. Arvinder acts as an expert for many international and regional organisations (including Council of Europe, EU, IMF, and UN agencies) on anti-corruption & governance, AML/CFT, sanctions, international co-operation, asset recovery, economic crimes, corporate criminal liability, maritime crime and security, human rights and public international law. She has also been engaged in treaty and legislative drafting, state and project evaluation, and capacity building/technical assistance programmes. She is a published author of legal texts (with Oxford University Press and others), an experienced trainer and has written articles, practitioner manuals and technical papers published by, inter alia, the Council of Europe, Commonwealth Secretariat, OECD, OSCE and UNODC on her areas of expertise.