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France

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International arbitration and litigation

— 2026 —

Leading

1

Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes

Yas Banifatemi | Coralie Darrigade | James Herbert | Maude Lebois | Thomas Parigot | Mohamed Shelbaya | Benjamin Siino

2

Clay Arbitration

NEW
Thomas Clay | Taha Zahedi Vafa

DLA Piper

Alexander Brabant | Théobald Naud | Michael Ostrove

King & Spalding

Agnès Bizard | Marc-Olivier Langlois | Kenneth R. Fleuriet

Linklaters

Jean-Charles Jaïs | Roland Ziadé

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

Alexander Leventhal | Isabelle Michou | Philippe Pinsolle | Eric Russo | Thomas Voisin | Michael Young

Teynier Pic

Yann Dehaudt-Delville | Raphaël Kaminsky | Sara Nadeau-Seguin | Pierre Pic | Danny Rifaat | Eric Teynier

White & Case

Alexandre Kiabski | Charles Nairac | Elizabeth Oger-Gross | Michael Polkinghorne | Christophe von Krause

Excellent

1

Bredin Prat

Raëd Fathallah | Didier Martin

Clifford Chance

Jason Fry | Simon Greenberg

De Gaulle Fleurance

Capucine du Pac de Marsoulies | Pierrick Le Goff

Eversheds Sutherland

Wesley Pydiamah | David S. Sellers

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Christophe Seraglini | Will Thomas

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Saadia Bhatty | Christian Camboulive | Alexandra Munoz | Sophie Scemla

Mayer Brown

José Caicedo | Dany Khayat | Alejandro López Ortiz

Medici Law

Marie-Laure Bizeau | Valence Borgia | Caroline Duclercq

Pinsent Masons

Olivier Bustin | Gaëlle Filhol | Sylvia Tonova

Three Crowns

Kathryn Khamsi | Ilija Mitrev Penushliski | Georgios Petrochilos | Shaparak Saleh | Todd Wetmore

2

Anima Dispute Resolution

Thomas Granier | Jacob Grierson

Asafo & Co.

Emmanuel Avramesco | Perrine Delandre | Charles Kaplan | Tunde Oyewole | Isabelle Rouche

Ashurst

Emmanuelle Cabrol

Clyde & Co

David Brown | Michael Conrad | Nadia Darwazeh | Grégory Laville de la Plaigne | David Méheut | Fabrice Pradon

Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier

Laurent Aynès | Carine Dupeyron

Derains & Gharavi

Emmanuel Foy | Hamid Gharavi

Foley Hoag

Diana Paraguacuto-Mahéo

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Clément Dupoirier | Emily Fox | Laurence Franc-Menget | Antoine Juaristi | Jonathan Mattout | Thierry Tomasi

Hughes Hubbard & Reed

Sena Agbayissah | Sébastien Bonnard

Jeantet

Joséphine Hage Chahine | Thierry Lauriol | Martin Tavaut

Kennedys

Thomas Kendra

LPA Law

Romain Berthon | Xavier Clédat | Salma El-Nashar | Nicolas Lefèvre | Ghislaine Lovet | Pierre Marly | Sébastien Thouvenot

Orrick

Frédéric Lalance

Simmons & Simmons

Philippe Cavalieros | Etienne Kowalski

SRDB Law Firm

Ziad Beylouni | Guillaume de Rubercy | Vivien Makaga Pea | Georges Sioufi

Talma Dispute Resolution

Marina Matousekova | Martin Pradel | Alexandre Reynaud

Trinity International

Lucien Bou Chaaya | Stéphane Brabant | Natasha Peter | Florian Quintard

Highly recommended

A&O Shearman

NEW
Jennifer Younan

Advant Altana

François Muller

Archipel

Jacques-Alexandre Genet | Emmanuel Kaspereit | Michaël Schlesinger

August Debouzy

Marie Danis | Valéry Denoix de Saint Marc

Baker McKenzie

Karim Boulmelh

BCTG Avocats

Antoine Beauquier | Augustin Nicolle | Clément Sabatier

Bird & Bird

Jalal El Ahdab | Boris Martor

Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle

Geoffroy Lyonnet | Peter M. Wolrich

FTMS Avocats

Mathias Chichportich | Tristan Dupré de Puget | Cédric Fischer | Pierre-Olivier Sur

HFW

Vincent Benezech | Julien Fouret | Gaëlle Le Quillec | Stanislas Lequette

Hogan Lovells

Christelle Coslin

Jones Day

Rémy Fekete | Jean-Pierre Harb | Elie Kleiman

Junction

Hugues de La Forge | Sally El Sawah

Klein - Wenner

Georges Arama | Martin Riedel

Lazareff Le Bars

Benoît Le Bars

Norton Rose Fulbright

Christian Dargham | Philippe Hameau | Marc Robert

Reed Smith

Ana Atallah | Clément Fouchard | Andrew Tetley

UGGC Avocats

Laure Assumpçao | Ali Bougrine | Jean-Jacques Uettwiller

Recommended

Audit Duprey Fekl

Pierre Duprey

CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats

Jean-Fabrice Brun | Olivier Kuhn

DWF

Romain Dupeyré | Ahmed Habib

FDA - Fénéon Delabrière Avocat

Antoine Delabrière

Franklin

Stéphan Alamowitch | Guillaume de Rancourt | Cendrine Delivré | Jérôme Michel

Honlet Legum Arbitration

Jean-Christophe Honlet | Barton Legum

K&L Gates

Louis Degos

Meyer Fabre Avocats

Damien Devot | Nathalie Meyer Fabre

Rory Legal

NEW
Rory Wheeler

Steering Legal

Nuno de Ayala Boaventura | Guillaume de Rocquigny | Mohamed Elhouseny

Stephenson Harwood

Nicolas Demigneux | Raphaël Gauvain

Watson Farley & Williams

NEW
Franck Poindessault

Valuable practice

Latournerie Wolfrom Avocats

Thibaut Kazémi

Miranda Alliance

Sophie Da Cunha

MLR Avocats

NEW
Matthieu Le Roux

Racine

Bruno Cavalié

Selene Avocats

Laurent Archambault

Simon Associés

Jean-Charles Simon

Publication date : Apr 1, 2026

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