Professor. Dr. Kaj Hobér joined 3 Verulam Buildings as an Associate Member on 1 January 2015, upon his retirement from the partnership of Mannheimer Swartling. At 3 Verulam Buildings Professor Hobér will focus on his arbitrator practice which encompasses investment treaty, public international law and commercial disputes. His particular expertise has been in energy related disputes, disputes involving parties from the former Soviet Union, and from Central and Eastern Europe, and on shareholders' disputes. He was Professor of East European Commercial Law at the University of Uppsala from 1997 to 2009 and Professor of International Law at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee in 2010. Prof. Hobér is on the arbitrators' list of ICSID, the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, CIETAC (Beijing), HKIAC (Hong Kong), the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, The Kula Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA), The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and other institutions. FromBetween 1998 to- 2003, Professor Hoberhe was Commissioner at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva.