Ginta Ahrel

Practice Areas

Ginta is specialized in dispute resolution with focus on international arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments. She acts as counsel and regularly serves as sole, chair and party-appointed arbitrator under the rules of leading arbitral institutions and in ad hoc proceedings. Ginta has particular experience in international trade, construction, energy, IT and post-M&A disputes. Recent mandates as counsel include acting for foreign investors against the Republic of Kazakhstan and the National Bank of Kazakhstan in annulment and enforcement proceedings and acting for Baltic construction companies in court and arbitration proceedings in Sweden.

Career

Ginta is a founding partner of Westerberg & Partners. Prior to that, she was a partner at another major Swedish law firm. Ginta has also worked with mergers and acquisitions advising on corporate and contract law.

Professional Memberships

Ginta is the president of the Swedish Arbitration Association and serves also as board member of the Arbitration Institute of the SCC.

Publications

“Why Arbitration Fails?” speaker on the panel titled “Sociology and Education, Arbitration – a Human Endeavor“ at the XXVth Congress of the International Counsel for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), Hong Kong, May 2024

Chapter on arbitration in Sweden in “The Healthy Award in International Commercial Arbitration”, 2nd edition, © Kluwer Law International, published 2024

“Execution of Arbitral Awards Against Sovereign Wealth Fund Assets: Enforcement Against States and the Supreme Court's Decision in Ascom”, article co-authored with Maria Fogdestam-Agius in Stockholm Arbitration Yearbook 2022, Stockholm Arbitration Yearbook Series, Volume 4, © Kluwer Law International, published 2023

Personal

Ginta is a Swedish national. She is fully proficient in Swedish, English and Russian, while her native language is Latvian.