Mr Matthias Fekl > Audit Duprey Fekl > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile

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

Position

Matthias Fekl is a founding partner at Audit – Duprey – Fekl.

Career

Matthias Fekl practice focuses on both advisory and litigation matters, particularly in public law, investment projects and alternative dispute resolution. He regularly acts as a mediator or as counsel in mediations. He has always expressed a strong interest in arbitration, including through his strong support of ambitious reforms in investment arbitration. Matthias Fekl has a deep understanding of the functioning of the French economic fabric and of public and private decision-making processes at all levels: local, national, European and international. He assists SMEs, mid-sized corporations and large groups alike with their projects as well as in their litigations.

  • Founding Partner, Audit – Duprey – Fekl (since 2021)
  •  Partner, KGA Avocats (2018 – 2020)
  • Minister for the Interior (2017)
  • Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Promotion of Tourism and French Nationals Abroad (2014 – 2017)
  • Member of Parliament and / Member of the Law Commission of the National Assembly (2012 – 2014)
  • Administrative Judge and maître de conférences at Sciences-Po (2005-2010)

Languages

French (native); German (native); English (fluent)

Memberships

  • Member of the National Commitee for France of the International Chamber of Commerce (CCI)
  • Member of the board of Paris – Place de droit, head of the  Commission for attractivity
  • Member of the board of the Global Diwan
  • Member of the French Society for Comparative Law
  • President of the CPME
  • Senior Fellow at the Institut Montaigne, french leading think-tank

Education

  • 2003 – 2005 | Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) – Promotion Romain-Gary
  • 1999 – 2002 | Sciences-Po
  • 1998 – 2002 | Ecole Normale Supérieure – Lettres et Sciences Humaines

Lawyer Rankings

France > Dispute resolution: International arbitration

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 DupreyMathias Audit and Matthias Fekl who are all regularly appointed as arbitrators in ICC and AFA disputes.