commercial arbitration cases as well as investor/State disputes. ... in other
practices (litigation, international trade, energy, mining, projects finance.
International Arbitration The international arbitration team at Mayer Brown Paris handles both international commercial arbitration cases as well as investor/State disputes. The international arbitration team works in close coordination with Mayer Brown’s other attorneys in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including with attorneys working in other practices (litigation, international trade, energy, mining, projects finance and governmental relations). All the lawyers of our team in Paris are admitted to the Paris Bar, certain of them being also admitted to act in Colombia or Lebanon. They all have been law lecturers in French or foreign universities. The team has the ability to manage international arbitration cases wherever the seat of the arbitration is located and can conduct proceedings in a variety of languages (English, French, Arabic or Spanish). The members of the Paris international arbitration team have been involved in both institutional arbitrations before the world’s main arbitration bodies such as the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, GAFTA, AFA and others, and ad hoc proceedings, most notably pursuant to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Recently, the team was involved in cases which applied various national laws including French, Gambian, Romanian, New Jersey, Lebanese, Tunisian, Egyptian, Argentinean and English law. In investors/ State disputes, the international law is also applicable. Several of these cases involved complex parallel proceedings such as criminal proceedings, US discovery procedures, and other civil cases in a variety of jurisdictions. The team has particular expertise in investor/State arbitrations, mainly under the World Bank’s ICSID Convention and pursuant to bilateral or multilateral investment treaties. The team also has significant experience before French cour ts regarding the recognition, execution, and annulment of arbitral awards, as well as on other judicial proceedings related to arbitration.
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Dany Khayat Partner Head of the International Arbitration Group at Mayer Brown Paris, Dany has been involved in international commercial arbitrations, investor/State disputes and cases before French Cour ts related to arbitration. His experience also covers the areas of States immunity and the enforcement of awards against State-owned assets. Dany Khayat has substantive knowledge and experience in investment treaty arbitration and the protection of foreign investments, having been involved in several major ICSID arbitrations. He is the author of many ar ticles on investor/State disputes and the co-author, since 2002, of the only French-language, comprehensive commentar y on all published ICSID awards, decisions and orders in the Revue québécoise de droit international. He has also co-authored a 700 page book, published in 2009 by Bruylant, containing the first six years of such commentaries. Dany Khayat has also participated as a lecturer in many conferences on the topic of investment treaties and international investments and has taught a course on arbitration in Arab countries at the University Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne and a course on international investments at the University of Poitiers. Dany is a member of the Paris Bar since 2001 and a graduate from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris ( international section). He obtained his law degrees from the Universit y of Paris I Panthéon -Sorbonne (maî trise) and Paris II Panthéon -A ssa s (DEA droit international). He is also a graduate of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales at the University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas.
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