Vlad Movshovich

Vlad Movshovich is a partner and practice leader in the Dispute Resolution Business Unit at Webber Wentzel, Johannesburg. Vlad is an attorney of the High Court in South Africa and solicitor of the Senior Courts in England and Wales - with Higher Rights of Audience (Civil Advocacy). Vlad has acted as lead counsel for various public and private sector clients in a large number of international arbitrations and precedent-setting cases in constitutional, corporate, commercial, administrative and international law. Vlad is a director of AfAA, where he heads the Standards Committee, is a member of the AFSA International Advisory Board and is on the Board of Reporters of the Centre for American and International Law. Vlad has lectured extensively on a variety of legal subjects (including international dispute settlement, international law, advocacy, civil justice and administrative and constitutional law), to business leaders, judges, practitioners and students, on the African continent and beyond. Vlad also regularly acts as a Judge of the High Court of South Africa, in Johannesburg and Pretoria. Vlad sits as an international arbitrator and is recognised as an expert in arbitration by Legal 500, Chambers Global, Who's Who Legal: Arbitration, Best Lawyers and Legal 500 African Arbitration Powerlist 2021. He also heads the team which won the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year Award at the African Legal Awards in 2020 and 2022.