Led by Emmanuelle Cabrol, who also sits as an arbitrator, Ashurst LLP‘s compact Paris-based team is entrusted by a prominent client base including several leading energy and engineering companies, as well as consortiums and international groups. The practice regularly handles significant, large disputes pertaining to the construction, energy (both renewables and oil and gas) and mining fields in Africa and France. The practice also assists clients at the pre-arbitration stage.
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- ‘Extensive expertise and experience.’
- ‘Top-class lawyers at all levels and first-rate client service. Emmanuelle Cabrol is outstanding and exceptional.'
- ‘Emmanuelle is very intelligent and highly experienced in Francophile African energy-related disputes. She is clearly well respected and highly regarded.'
Key clients
- Areva
- Lagardère
- Sunny Hill
Work highlights
Representing a foreign investor in a large dispute against a North African state-owned company, arising from the wrongful termination of its interest in a world-class gas project.
Representing a leading international group in a strategic arbitration against a state-owned North African company related to the termination of an infrastructure project.
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Practice head
Emmanuelle Cabrol