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Audit Duprey Fekl
26 Avenue de l'Opéra
75001 Paris
France

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France > Dispute resolution: International arbitration Tier 3

Boutique firm Audit Duprey Fekl has a high-level team that is retained by leading companies to assist with commercial and investment disputes, notably in relation to Africa. The team regularly acts in large oil and gas and mining disputes, while its expertise also spans sensitive exequatur cases and its strong academic knowledge and recognition also earns it mandates on complex judicial proceedings challenging arbitrators’ duties and arbitration court composition. The practice is co-headed by Pierre Duprey, Mathias Audit and Matthias Fekl who are all regularly appointed as arbitrators in ICC and AFA disputes.

Leading individuals

Pierre Duprey - Audit Duprey Fekl

Practice head(s):

Pierre Duprey; Mathias Audit; Matthias Fekl

Key clients

World Natural Resources Ltd

Commerzbank AG

Republic of Senegal

Work highlights

Representing World Natural Resources Ltd in ICSID proceedings in relation to a dispute concerning a large oil field in the Republic of the Congo.
Represented World Natural Resources Ltd and its local subsidiary in an ICC arbitration in relation to a USD 200 million worth dispute concerning a large oil field in the Republic of the Congo.
Advised Commerzbank AG and drafted witness statements on its account to be submitted in court in relation to the possibility for French courts to recognise a foreign anti-suit injunction issued to safeguard Paris-seated arbitration proceedings.

Audit Duprey Fekl is a leading law firm, which brings together a top-notch team centered around three renowned partners with recognized and complementary expertise. It provides both dispute resolution and advisory services and combines a strategic approach with a legal analysis of clients’ international projects and disputes. The team speaks six languages and shares the strong belief that in a global economy marked by protean and growing tensions, anticipation, strategy, and efficient recourse to the rules of law are more essential than ever.

The main areas of expertise of the firm are:

International Arbitration: our lawyers have extensive experience and act both as counsel and as arbitrators in commercial and investment arbitrations, in ad hoc proceedings or in arbitrations conducted under the aegis of major international institutions.
Litigation: the firm develops and implements litigation strategies before French judicial and administrative courts. It also coordinates complex and cross-border disputes pending before State courts or arbitral tribunals in different jurisdictions.
Mediation: our lawyers believe in the relevance of mediation to secure global and effective outcomes to disputes. They regularly act as counsel and mediators in national and international mediation proceedings, whether ad hoc or within the framework of mediation centers.
Enforcement of judgments or arbitral awards: the firm advises its clients in relation to the search for assets and assists them in recovering their debts.
State activities: the firm has particular expertise in advising and litigating matters relating to State activities (in particular: invitations to tender, structuring and drafting groups of contracts, sovereign immunity law).
State debt: the firm assists its clients in the management of State debt, whether bilateral or multilateral, public or private, bank or bond, including cases where the occurrence of a default or a risk of default requires restructuring the debt.
International legal regimes: the firm advises its clients on the extraterritorial reach of certain national norms and on sanctions regimes, embargoes, and asset freezes.
Strategic advice: the firm provides its clients with strategic analysis tools for international contractual arrangements, investment structuring, the legal dimension of major changes taking place in the context of globalization, and the institutional environment of their projects.

Name	Position	Profile
Dr Daria Astakhova	Daria Astakhova is an associate at Audit – Duprey – Fekl.	View Profile
Professor Mathias Audit	Mathias Audit is a founding partner at Audit – Duprey – Fekl,…	View Profile
Mr Pierre Duprey	Pierre Duprey is a founding partner at Audit – Duprey – Fekl.	View Profile
Mr Aly Eissa	Aly Eissa is an associate at Audit – Duprey – Fekl.	View Profile
Mr Matthias Fekl	Matthias Fekl is a founding partner at Audit – Duprey – Fekl.	View Profile
Mr Gaspard Fiévet	Gaspard Fiévet is an associate at Audit – Duprey – Fekl.	View Profile
Ms Ana Maric	Ana Maric is an associate at Audit – Duprey – Fekl.	View Profile
Me Willia Zouaoui	Willia Zouaoui is an associate at Audit – Duprey – Fekl.	View Profile