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2 RUE SAINT-FLORENTIN
75001 PARIS
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Elie Kleiman
Work Department
Global Disputes
Position
Partner
Career
Elie Kleiman has more than 30 years’ experience in strategic dispute resolution, with a significant focus on international arbitration, cross-border litigation and crisis management in a vast array of business sectors and jurisdictions. He has advised large French and international companies as lead counsel in many high-profile disputes involving complex, business-sensitive issues, bringing many of the controversies to an optimal conclusion, either in court, through arbitration, or through mediation and imaginative settlement solutions. Elie has in-depth knowledge of many institutional arbitration rules and ad hoc arbitration, and regularly sits as an arbitrator and as a mediator.
Languages
English and French
Education
- University of Paris II-Panthéon Assas (DEA droit international 1987);
- University of Paris X-Nanterre (Maîtrise droit privé 1986)
Lawyer Rankings
France > Dispute resolution: International arbitration
(Hall of Fame)Jones Day acts for a prominent client base, comprising large telecoms, energy, engineering and defence companies. The Paris-based team has a strong involvement in commercial arbitration disputes relating to North Africa and the Middle East and is managing high-stakes cases linked to Iraq and Algeria, notably concerning construction work. The practice also deals with significant matters relating to joint venture and M&A transactions. Elie Kleiman and Jean-Pierre Harb head the team, which also includes of counsel Claire Pauly.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame France > Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration France
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Environment
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Private equity: venture/growth capital
- Industry focus: Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: equity capital markets
- Compliance
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Private equity: Fund formation
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Employment
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: IT and internet
- Insolvency
- Real estate
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Project finance
- Tax