Region: France

Céline Greenberg has left the boutique she co-founded with leading arbitrator Pierre Mayer to launch an international arbitration practice at French firm Franklin.

12 February 2024

GAR has identified the practitioners who appeared in two gas price review arbitrations involving German state-owned energy group Uniper, including a previously unreported case against Dutch supplier GasTerra.

08 February 2024

This year's Paris Arbitration Week will take inspiration from the Olympic Games to be held in Paris this summer, with an opening speech on diversity and inclusion from a leading paralympic athlete-turned businesswoman and a "PAW Games" in which teams from arbitration seats worldwide will compete in sporting events.

07 February 2024

A Paris criminal court has found French arbitration lawyer Jean-Georges Betto guilty of sexual and moral harassment of former employees at his firm – four years after he was sanctioned for his conduct by the Paris Bar Council.

24 January 2024

Charles Kaplan has left Orrick after more than a decade to join the partnership at Africa-focused firm Asafo & Co in Paris, bringing Tunde Oyewole with him.  

18 January 2024

The Paris Court of Appeal has refused to revive an ICC claim against an Ethiopian state agency based on an arbitrator’s alleged ties with a partner at Clyde & Co – including their participation on a roundtable at Paris Arbitration Week.

17 January 2024

French aerospace contractor Thales has asked a New York court to restrain its US partner from proceeding with the US$525 million sale of a stake in their joint venture pending an ICC arbitration.

09 January 2024

Philip Dunham has left the partnership at Dechert to join Signature Litigation in Paris, a month after Dechert announced its Paris-based international arbitration group would be breaking away.

02 January 2024

Dechert has announced that its international arbitration group in Paris is breaking away, with global practice co-chair Eduardo Silva Romero and members of his team set to launch an independent boutique.

28 November 2023

A Norwegian-owned oil company’s contract-based ICSID claim against Senegal has ended with both sides’ claims dismissed, as the west African state is hit with a treaty claim over a project to construct a port terminal.

21 November 2023