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Saadia Bhatty

Saadia Bhatty is a Partner and Co-head of Gide's International Dispute Resolution team in London. She specialises in international arbitration and public international law. Saadia has more than 15 years' experience (including in Paris, New York and London) advising private and state entities in cross-border disputes, in particular in international arbitration proceedings (commercial and investment), governed by the rules of various institutions (including ICC, ICSID, LCIA, PCA, SCC, HKIAC, VIAC, CAS and OHADA rules), as well as in ad hoc arbitrations (UNCITRAL), subject to the laws of both civil and common law jurisdictions, particularly in the energy, oil and gas, and construction sectors, notably in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Saadia also advises governments on the drafting/reform of their investment treaties, national legislation and state contracts, and in proceedings before the Internationl Court of Justice Saadia sits as an arbitrator on several arbitration panels: the Energy Disputes Arbitration Center (EDAC), the Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), the Organisation pour l'harmonisation en Afrique du droit des affaires (OHADA) and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). She is also a member of ICC UK's International Arbitration Committee. Saadia also regularly teaches international arbitration in universities across the world. Saadia is a graduate of Harvard, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 2010 and to the Paris Bar in 2018.

Dimitrios Logizidis

Dimitrios Logizidis is a Partner in Gide's "Banking and Finance team" in London. He specialises in structured finance. He advises financial institutions, private equity funds and corporations on a wide range of asset-backed finance, securitisation and covered bond transactions. In particular, Dimitrios has advised arrangers, private equity funds and originators on major Whole Business Securitisation transactions of up to €3 billion. He advised the arrangers on the Whole Business Hertz/Fraikin, Europcar/Eurazéo and ALD Automotive/Société Générale securitisations. Dimitrios also advised BNP Paribas as arranger on one of the largest pan-European trade receivables securitisation transactions for the Teva Group, involving eight different jurisdictions. Dimitrios is Solicitor in England and Avocat à la Cour in France. He advises on both French and English law.

Rupert Reece

Rupert Reece is a partner in Gide's Arbitration team in London. He specialises in international arbitration relating to construction, joint ventures, aerospace and international trade. Rupert acts as counsel in arbitration proceedings in English and/or French, usually under the ICC or LCIA rules. He has also appeared before tribunals subject to various institutional rules in Asia, the Middle East and Central Europe. Rupert is regularly appointed as an arbitrator. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Having started his career as a Barrister in London in 1992, Rupert joined Gide in Paris in 1995 and became a partner in 2001. He relocated to the Gide office in London in 2012.

Astrid Westphalen

Astrid Westphalen is counsel in Gide's International Arbitration team in Paris. She specialises in international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. Astrid advises and represents companies, state entities and governments in international, institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, as well as before the French courts in arbitration-related disputes. She has acted in over 25 commercial and investment arbitrations relating to infrastructure and construction projects, investment protection and contractual disputes in a wide variety of sectors, including energy and natural resources, cement, insurance and reinsurance, defence and public service concessions. Astrid is currently representing a reinsurer in a dispute relating to the performance of reinsurance treaties and a North African industrial group in a dispute relating to the construction of a cement plant. She recently acted for two public entities in North Africa in shareholder disputes. Astrid is Vice-President of Paris Arbitration Week and Co-Chair of the Society of Construction Law France's Dispute Resolution Committee. Member of the Paris Bar since 2013 and a Solicitor at the Bar of England and Wales since 2017, Astrid is a graduate of the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (Master II in International Trade Law) and of King's College London (Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in English and French Law).