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ARTICLE · 27 OCTOBER 2017

Who Wins, Where And Why? Paris, France

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In this edition of Who Wins, Where and Why?, I have the privilege to write about my adoptive home – Paris, France.

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Authored by Iain McKenny General Counsel of Disputes, Vannin Capital

In this edition of Who Wins, Where and Why?, I have the privilege to write about my adoptive home – Paris, France. I have had the benefit of living in this wonderful city for nearly 10 years, having arrived in 2008 from my other adoptive home of over 10 years – London, England. Living and working as a disputes lawyer in these incredible cities has allowed me to be part of two extremely close and ever so different disputes markets. Having focused on the London disputes market in an earlier edition of Funding in Focus1 and having recently looked at the disputes market in Stockholm, Sweden2, it is about time that we turned our focus to Paris, France and ask the questions; Who wins, where and why?

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