Nadia Darwazeh and Sophie Grémaud included in the Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist: France 2023

Head of Paris arbitration team Nadia Darwazeh and Counsel Sophie Grémaud have been included in the first edition of the Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist: France which recognises their leading role on the arbitration scene in France and beyond.

The Legal 500 has defined the list of France's leading practitioners in international arbitration, drawn on their research team’s expertise and on feedback from leading arbitrators, arbitral institutions, and general counsel.

Nadia Darwazeh is a partner in Clyde & Co’s global arbitration group and Head of arbitration in the Paris office. She has over 20 years of experience acting as counsel in commercial and investor-state arbitrations, she also regularly sits as arbitrator. Discover her profile in the publication or on our website.

Sophie Grémaud is counsel in the Paris firm’s office. She advises corporates and states in complex commercial and investor-state arbitrations. Sophie has significant experience in handling disputes in a variety of sectors such as natural resources, infrastructures, telecommunications, distributions, M&A and financial services (including insurance & reinsurance). Discover her profile in the publication or on our website.

“Our team is exclusively focused on running arbitrations from A to Z. We negotiate arbitration agreements, we handle mediations where they precede arbitration proceedings, but the bulk of our work is handling arbitrations from A to Z, whether investor-state arbitrations of commercial arbitrations, including doing the advocacy”, comments Nadia in her interview to the publication.

Clyde & Co’s Paris arbitration team provide our clients with a one-stop shop for their disputes spanning the globe, from Asia to South America and from Europe to Africa. We offer our clients an all-encompassing perspective on disputes, that of counsel, arbitrator and of the institution.

Other members of the team highlighted in our profile in the Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist: France 2023:

David Brown
Ivan Urzhumov
Michael Conrad
Sophie Bayrou
François Ondoa Messi
Constance Malleville
Rémi Sassine
Dilara Khamitova
Maria Mironova

Discover Nadia’s and Sophie’s interviews as well as the enhanced profile of our Paris arbitration team in the Legal 500 Private Practice Arbitration Powerlist: France 2023 (pages 16-30).