Christel Y. Tham

Associate
New York
Tel: +1 212 909 6008
Overview
Christel Y. Tham is a member of the firm’s International Dispute Resolution Group and Special Situations team in New York. Her practice focuses ... Read Full Biography

Publications

  • ESG Update – December 3, 2025
    3 December 2025
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Jeffrey J. Rosen
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Caroline N. Swett
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Jacob Dougherty
    ,
    Isabelle Glimcher
    ,
    John J. Ellis
    ,
    Jacob Hochberger
    ,
    Camila Isern
    ,
    Sara Kaufhardt
    ,
    Jeremy I. Liss
    ,
    Sophie Michalski
    ,
    Diana Moise
    ,
    Sandli Pandey
    ,
    Sonia Ratiu
    ,
    Tanaya Sanyal
    ,
    Alexandra M. Schoellkopf
    ,
    Alfie Scott
    ,
    Phoebe Brooke Steinfeld
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Nathaniel Waldman
    ,
    Reena Chojar
    ,
    Madison Marko
    ,
    Anya Mansoor
    ,
    Liza Patterson
    ,
    Noah Schaffir
  • JURIS Arbitration Law: Handbook on Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration - Second Edition
    26 November 2025
    JURIS Arbitration Law
    Ina C. Popova
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
  • ESG Update – November 5, 2025
    5 November 2025
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Jeffrey J. Rosen
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Caroline N. Swett
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Jacob Dougherty
    ,
    John J. Ellis
    ,
    Jacob Hochberger
    ,
    Camila Isern
    ,
    Sara Kaufhardt
    ,
    Jeremy I. Liss
    ,
    Sophie Michalski
    ,
    Diana Moise
    ,
    Sandli Pandey
    ,
    Sonia Ratiu
    ,
    Tanaya Sanyal
    ,
    Alexandra M. Schoellkopf
    ,
    Alfie Scott
    ,
    Phoebe Brooke Steinfeld
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Nathaniel Waldman
    ,
    Madison Marko
  • ESG Update – October 21, 2025
    21 October 2025
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Jeffrey J. Rosen
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Caroline N. Swett
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Jacob Dougherty
    ,
    John J. Ellis
    ,
    Jacob Hochberger
    ,
    Camila Isern
    ,
    Sara Kaufhardt
    ,
    Jeremy I. Liss
    ,
    Sophie Michalski
    ,
    Diana Moise
    ,
    Sandli Pandey
    ,
    Sonia Ratiu
    ,
    Tanaya Sanyal
    ,
    Alexandra M. Schoellkopf
    ,
    Alfie Scott
    ,
    Phoebe Brooke Steinfeld
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Nathaniel Waldman
    ,
    Madison Marko
  • ESG Update – October 7, 2025
    7 October 2025
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Jeffrey J. Rosen
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Caroline N. Swett
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Jacob Dougherty
    ,
    John J. Ellis
    ,
    Jacob Hochberger
    ,
    Camila Isern
    ,
    Sara Kaufhardt
    ,
    Jeremy I. Liss
    ,
    Sophie Michalski
    ,
    Diana Moise
    ,
    Sandli Pandey
    ,
    Sonia Ratiu
    ,
    Tanaya Sanyal
    ,
    Alexandra M. Schoellkopf
    ,
    Alfie Scott
    ,
    Phoebe Brooke Steinfeld
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Nathaniel Waldman
    ,
    Madison Marko
  • ESG Update – September 19, 2025
    19 September 2025
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Jeffrey J. Rosen
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Caroline N. Swett
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Jacob Dougherty
    ,
    John J. Ellis
    ,
    Jacob Hochberger
    ,
    Camila Isern
    ,
    Sara Kaufhardt
    ,
    Jeremy I. Liss
    ,
    Sophie Michalski
    ,
    Diana Moise
    ,
    Sandli Pandey
    ,
    Sonia Ratiu
    ,
    Tanaya Sanyal
    ,
    Alexandra M. Schoellkopf
    ,
    Alfie Scott
    ,
    Phoebe Brooke Steinfeld
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Nathaniel Waldman
    ,
    Madison Marko
  • The U.S. Tariff Turmoil:
    Navigating the Potential Sources of Risk
    13 August 2025
    Catherine Amirfar
    ,
    Conway Blake
    ,
    Tony Dymond
    ,
    Mark W. Friedman
    ,
    Lord Goldsmith KC
    ,
    Gareth Hughes
    ,
    Ina C. Popova
    ,
    Dietmar W. Prager
    ,
    Natalie L. Reid
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Paul D. Rubin
    ,
    Laura Sinisterra
    ,
    Rick Sofield
    ,
    Jeffrey Sullivan KC
    ,
    Christopher K. Tahbaz
    ,
    William H. Taft V
    ,
    Patrick Taylor
    ,
    Shreya Aren
    ,
    Alexandre Bisch
    ,
    Gavin Chesney
    ,
    Natasha McCarthy
    ,
    Carl Micarelli
    ,
    Ashika Singh
    ,
    Nicole A. Marton
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Deborah Enix-Ross
  • D.C. Circuit Gives with One Hand and Takes with the Other: A Mixed Ruling on EU Award Enforcement Prospects in the U.S.
    8 October 2024
    Catherine Amirfar
    ,
    Mark W. Friedman
    ,
    Natalie L. Reid
    ,
    Jeffrey Sullivan KC
    ,
    William H. Taft V
    ,
    Patrick Taylor
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Beatrice A. Walton
  • Just Security: Remote Sensing from Space: What Norms Govern?
    5 May 2023
    Just Security
    Catherine Amirfar
    ,
    Ina C. Popova
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Nicole A. Marton
  • Kluwer Arbitration Blog: New York Arbitration Week 2022 Redux: Who’s in Charge? — The Post-Pandemic Meaning of “Public Interest” in Interim Applications
    4 December 2022
    Kluwer Arbitration Blog
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Lisa Wang Lachowicz
    ,
    Jane Tien
  • ECT Arbitration Update: Warning, Restrictions Ahead
    6 July 2022
    Tony Dymond
    ,
    Lord Goldsmith KC
    ,
    Ina C. Popova
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Patrick Taylor
    ,
    Amina Afifi
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
  • New ICSID Rules Offer Broader Access, Greater Transparency and More Streamlined Proceedings
    30 May 2022
    Ina C. Popova
    ,
    Patrick Taylor
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
  • 2021/2022 Private Equity Year-End Review and Outlook
    January 2022
    Jonathan Adler
    ,
    Catherine Amirfar
    ,
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Katherine Ashton
    ,
    Andrew L. Bab
    ,
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Ezra Borut
    ,
    Andrew J. Ceresney
    ,
    Jeffrey P. Cunard
    ,
    Alexander R. Cochran
    ,
    E. Drew Dutton
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Morgan J. Hayes
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Maurizio Levi-Minzi
    ,
    Nicholas P. Pellicani
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
    ,
    Julie M. Riewe
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Thomas Smith
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Richard Ward
    ,
    Christopher Dortschy
    ,
    Emily F. Huang
    ,
    Jennifer Wheater
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Robert T. Dura
    ,
    Matthew J. Sacco
    ,
    Sheng Shao
    ,
    Sergio Torres
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Christopher Gossage
    ,
    Robert B. Kaplan
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    John Young
    ,
    Jin-Hyuk Jang
    ,
    Lukas Ott
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    Stuart Hammer
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Luke Dembosky
    ,
    Avi Gesser
    ,
    Peter J. Irwin
    ,
    Ina C. Popova
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    M. Natasha Labovitz
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Paul D. Rubin
    ,
    Eric Dinallo
    ,
    Marilyn A. Lion
    ,
    Jacob W. Stahl
    ,
    Nicholas F. Potter
    ,
    Kim T. Le
    ,
    Adam Aukland-Peck
    ,
    Melissa Runsten
    ,
    Matthew Mrozek
    ,
    Michael C. Godbe
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
    ,
    Lisa Wang Lachowicz
    ,
    Yiran Ji
  • The Future of Investment Law in the EU: A Practical Perspective
    8 December 2021
    Catherine Amirfar
    ,
    Donald Francis Donovan
    ,
    Tony Dymond
    ,
    Mark W. Friedman
    ,
    Lord Goldsmith KC
    ,
    Ina C. Popova
    ,
    Dietmar W. Prager
    ,
    Natalie L. Reid
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    William H. Taft V
    ,
    Patrick Taylor
    ,
    Mark McCloskey
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
  • Canada Vs. US Product Liability: Recent Developments
    25 January 2016
    Law360
    Maura Kathleen Monaghan
    ,
    Jacob W. Stahl
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
  • Canada Vs. US Product Liability: The Canadian Experience
    22 January 2016
    Law360
    Maura Kathleen Monaghan
    ,
    Jacob W. Stahl
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham
  • Canada Vs. US Product Liability: The US Experience
    21 January 2016
    Law360
    Maura Kathleen Monaghan
    ,
    Jacob W. Stahl
    ,
    Christel Y. Tham

Upcoming Events

Recent Events

  • Legal Roundtable: Adjudicating Climate Disputes in a New Era - Implementation and Conciliation
    14 November 2025
    Climate Law and Governance Initiative
    Climate Law and Governance Day 2025
    Webcast
    Speaking Engagements
  • AI in Arbitration: Trends to Tactics
    23 October 2025
    Ukrainian Arbitration Association and Jus Mundi
    Jus Mundi + Ukrainian Arbitration Association Webinar
    Webcast
    Speaking Engagements
  • The Sovereign's Toolbox in ISDS: Perspectives from New York, London and Beyond
    23 October 2025
    Columbia International Arbitration Association
    New York, New York
    Speaking Engagements