Our team
Slaney Advisors’ core team collaborates with networks of professionals across the globe to provide our clients a world-class service.
We have a successful track record in sovereign claims recoveries and dispute resolution. Slaney Advisors is also a leader in the evolving market for sovereign claims. We help clients analyse, structure and execute sales of arbitration claims and awards.
We tackle our clients' foreign investment and other challenges by combining in-house expertise with our international network of professional advisors and experts.
Starla V Griffin, MCIArb
Managing Directore-mail: svg@slaneyadvisors.com
Starla is Managing Director at Slaney Advisors, where she focuses on issues at the intersection of international arbitration and sovereign debt. She is also Head of Slaney Climate & Development Finance, where she works across a portfolio of debt and sustainable finance issues for philanthropies, private sector and government clients. Her expertise spans international debt capital markets, sovereign debt restructurings, currency derivatives, financial instrument development, international arbitration, and investor-state disputes, with a focus on emerging and developing economies.
Starla is a New York-qualified lawyer and Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) in the UK. She has served on a number of expert committees on global financial architecture reform and sustainable finance instrument design. She currently serves on the African Climate Foundation’s Steering Committee on Adaptation Investment, and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.
Kathryn Brady
Executive Assistante-mail: kathryn.brady@slaneyadvisors.com
Kathryn is Executive Assistant at Slaney Advisors, and has been with Slaney since its founding in 2007. At Slaney, Kathryn oversees the office administration and coordinates Slaney’s global network of experts to support our practice in awards and claims monetisations and sovereign recoveries.
Kathryn has worked as a legal secretary for over 25 years in international law firms in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand. She has supported lawyers in both corporate and arbitration practices.