Alexandre’s experience includes participation in numerous international commercial and investment disputes, whether as counsel or secretary to the arbitral tribunal.
Representative arbitration proceedings include:
- A SIAC arbitration between a Chinese company and an Albanian company arising out of several sales contracts (as tribunal secretary)
- An ICC arbitration between a Barbadian oil company and a Tunisian public entity relating to the performance of an oil sales contract (as member of the counsel team representing the claimant) *
- An ICSID arbitration between British oil companies and an African State relating to the exploitation of several oil concessions (as member of the counsel team representing the claimants) *
- An ICSID arbitration between Hope Services LLC and the Republic of Cameroon (ICSID Case No. ARB/20/2) (as member of the counsel team representing the claimant) *
Representative arbitration-related court proceedings include:
- Proceedings before French courts (“juge d’appui” and Paris Court of Appeal) relating to certain decisions taken by the ICC in an arbitration, and subsequent enforcement proceedings (as member of the counsel team representing the ICC) *
Representative international litigation proceedings include:
- French court proceedings relating to antitrust claims for damages between a Luxembourgish company and the French subsidiary of an Italian automotive company (as member of the counsel team representing the respondent) *
Representative advisory work includes:
- Advising an African State in drafting a model bilateral investment treaty and elaborating a national strategy for the negotiation of future treaties by that State (as member of the counsel team advising the State) *
- Advising a French transport and logistics company in restructuring its foreign investments, particularly in Africa (as member of the counsel team advising the company) *
- Advising an international organization and an African State in a pre-arbitration dispute against a multinational construction company concerning a road-rehabilitation project (as member of the counsel team representing the organization and the State) *
- Advising a French civil engineering company regarding the enforcement of a Hungarian arbitral award in France (as member of the counsel team advising the company) *
* Prior to joining Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler