Our team of attorneys and academics with long experience in international arbitration, have a perfect command of these proceedings and their implications. We provide assistance in all types of proceedings, ranging from straightforward cases to highly complex matters, with the support of expert partners or foreign correspondents, if necessary, whether these proceedings are Ad hoc, UNCITRAL, ICC, CCJA, ICSID, CMAP, ICDR, LCIA, SCC and others, from the beginning of proceedings to the enforcement of awards.
Our Partners steer our arbitration cases and are your privileged contacts throughout the proceedings. They have all been arbitrators for several years, acting in national and international arbitrations, in French, English or Spanish for some, and have developed a strong expertise in energy and commodities, especially in Africa, but also in agri-food, heavy industry, aeronautics, banking and finance and equity funds.
Their specialized expertise spans across diverse sectors, including cases involving expropriation, breach of contractual exclusivity, abusive breach of supply contracts, commodities trading, and post-acquisition disputes, such as shareholders’ agreements and governance matters.
Furthermore, our attorneys also serve as experts, providing legal opinions in arbitration proceedings.
Recent cases:
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ICC arbitration case, under the OHADA Treaty, related to a post-acquisition dispute between two African parties operating in the banking sector;
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Ad hoc arbitration case, under the UNCITRAL rules and subject to Egyptian law related to a breach of a commodities contract between a French company and a Middle Eastern manufacturer;
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ICC arbitration case, under OHADA Treaty, related to a breach of an exclusive mining exploration contract between a Hong Kong company and an African State;
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ICC arbitration case, in application of English law, between Dutch, Beninese and Brazilian oil exploration operators, concluded with a global settlement with the Government;
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Setting aside proceedings before the Paris Court of Appeal of an Ad hoc arbitral award rendered under Swiss procedural law;
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Proceedings before the ECOWAS Court of Human Rights in relation to the expropriation of a foreign investment in the absence of a contract and arbitration clause between the parties and the African ECOWAS Member State;
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Enforcement of an ICC arbitral award in a mining case rendered against an African state, which ended with a spontaneous execution by the latter;
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Arbitration proceedings conducted under the Paris Chamber of Arbitration in relation to a dispute between a strategy consultant and a company active in the international catering sector;
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Ad hoc Arbitration between a financial consultant and an agri-food company;
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Setting aside proceedings before the CCJA against an arbitral award on the grounds that the arbitrators had violated their duties. The arbitration seat was in Senegal;
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Our Partners also act as arbitrators in several ongoing arbitration proceedings, including a post-acquisition dispute, subject to Swiss procedural law, between a French party and a Canadian party; a dispute, subject to French law, related to a contractual breach in the agri-food sector; a dispute, subject to Cameroonian law, between two African parties concerning the reimbursement of a loan; a dispute, subject to Spanish law, between a supplier and a distributor.