Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announces that the following lawyers have been appointed to leadership positions with the International Bar Association, effective January 1, 2025.

• International Disputes Resolution Group senior advisor, global engagement, Deborah Enix-Ross has been named the IBA’s Secretary-General. Ms. Enix-Ross is a Past President of the American Bar Association, where she held several other leadership roles including former Chair of the ABA Center for Human Rights and Chair of the Center’s Business and Human Rights Project.
• International Disputes Resolution Group partner Tony Dymond has been named Co-Vice Chair of the Dispute Resolution Subcommittee of the International Construction Projects Committee. Mr. Dymond is Co-Chair of the firm’s Asia Arbitration practice and focuses his practice on complex, multijurisdictional disputes, in both litigation and arbitration.
• White Collar Group partner Andrew Levine has been named a member of the IBA’s Legal Practice Division Council and will serve as the Council’s Liaison Officer for the Criminal Law Section. Until recently, he served as Co-Chair of the Anti-Corruption Committee, for which he now sits on the Advisory Board. Mr. Levine focuses his practice on defending companies and individuals in criminal, civil and regulatory enforcement matters, conducting internal investigations and providing compliance advice. In addition, he is co-head of the firm’s Latin America practice.
• Capital Markets Group partner Nicholas Pellicani has been named a Membership Officer of the Securities and Capital Markets Committee. Mr. Pellicani focuses his practice on U.S. and international securities laws and capital markets transactions, including IPOs, private placements and high-yield debt offering, as well as a broad range of corporate governance matters.
• International Disputes Resolution Group partner Dietmar Prager has been named Senior Vice-Chair of the Arbitration Committee. Dr. Prager focuses his practice on international arbitration and litigation, and has represented parties in numerous arbitrations throughout the world under the auspices of the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, AAA, ICDR and the PCA as well as in ad hoc arbitration proceedings. He also co-leads the firm’s Latin America Practice Group.
• Capital Markets Group Co-Chair Paul Rodel has been named an Advisory Board Member of the Securities and Capital Markets Committee. Mr. Rodel represents clients in the private equity, healthcare, insurance, financial services, industrials, technology and media and aviation industries in all types of capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary and follow-on offerings, private placements, and debt offerings.
• Investment Management Group Global Chair Rebecca Silberstein is Chair Emeritus of the Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee and is on the Organizing Committee of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds. Ms. Silberstein focuses her practice on advising private equity firms and financial sponsors of private investment funds, including global private equity, leveraged buyout, energy and infrastructure, banking and financial services, mezzanine, credit and distressed debt funds, as well as bespoke funds and separate accounts.
• International Disputes Resolution Group partner Chris Tahbaz will continue to serve as an Advisory Board Member of the Litigation Committee. Mr. Tahbaz, the firm’s General Counsel, focuses his practice on representing U.S.- and Asia-based multinational corporations in commercial arbitration proceedings and in investment treaty disputes in Asia and elsewhere.

The IBA is the foremost organization for international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. Established in 1947, shortly after the creation of the United Nations, with the aim of protecting and advancing the rule of law globally, the IBA was born out of the conviction that an organization made up of the world's bar associations could contribute to global stability and peace through the administration of justice. In the years since its creation, the organisation has evolved, from an association comprised exclusively of bar associations and law societies, to one that incorporates individual international lawyers and entire law firms. The present membership is comprised of more than 80,000 individual international lawyers from most of the world’s leading law firms and some 190 bar associations and law societies spanning more than 170 countries.