Bredin Prat

International Arbitration

Partner

Raëd Fathallah, Partner, is a member of the firm’s International Arbitration team.

He acts as counsel in large-scale investment and commercial arbitrations, in which he represents corporations, sovereign States and State entities. Over the past 25 years, he has acted as counsel or as arbitrator, in more than 200 proceedings, both ad hoc or under the major Rules (including ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, UNCITRAL, DIAC, BCDR, CRCICA and OHADA).

Raëd has particular expertise in arbitrations involving sovereign States and State-owned entities and has acted in dozens of investor-State disputes (including ICSID) both as lead counsel and arbitrator.

He is also acclaimed as one of the most sought-after arbitrators, having served in over 80 arbitrations, mostly as President or Sole Arbitrator, under major institutional rules (ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, ICSID, and UNCITRAL).

He served until recently as a Vice President of the LCIA and is currently a member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators and Conciliators.

Arabic, French, English

Admitted to the Quebec Bar (1997) and the Paris Bar (2007), Raëd is qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2005.

Raëd Fathallah is a graduate of the University of Ottawa (L.L.L, 1994) and the New York University School of Law (M.C.J., 1996). He also obtained a Doctorate in Law (D.Phil, 2007) from the University of Oxford, Lincoln College, where his research principally focused on investment treaty arbitration.