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Honlet Legum Arbitration co-hosted with Laborde Law an event during the Paris Arbitration Week entitled “The Future of Investment Arbitration: a Conversation with Meg Kinnear, Toby Landau KC and Professor Alain Pellet”.  This panel of leading lights in the field addressed a number of questions, including the 2022 amendments to the ICSID Rules and Regulations, double hatting, the new generation of disputes and investment treaties,…

This article authored by Bart Legum and Clara Motin provides a practitioner’s perspective on one of the most important, if not the most important, decision in any arbitration: selection of the arbitrators. An advantage of arbitration over other binding dispute resolution mechanisms is the ability for parties to select arbitrators best suited to the case at hand. Each case is generally different, however. Arbitrators with…

Honlet Legum Arbitration proudly reports its inclusion as a specialist international arbitration law firm in the select Chambers Global rankings (2023) for France after only one year of existence. Chambers ranks law firms and individual lawyers solely on the basis of client and peer-feedback. Chambers reported that “Honlet Legum Arbitration is a newly established firm that regularly handles a plethora of arbitration mandates. The practice…

Honlet Legum Arbitration proudly reports that Bart Legum was distinguished as ‘Lawyer of the Year’ (Arbitration and Mediation) in the 13th edition of The Best Lawyers in France. Best Lawyers’ recommendations are based exclusively on peer recommendations. Only a single lawyer in a specific practice area and location is honored every year with a ‘Lawyer of the Year’ designation. Bart Legum was also recommended in the…

At a seminar jointly organized by the Association of French-Colombian Jurists (AJFC) and the Colombian Academy of International Law (ACCOLDI) on June 17, 2022, Jean-Christophe Honlet spoke about the current and possible future issues arising out of energy transition claims in international investment arbitration, in company of French and Colombian distinguished energy transition specialists. Back

Honlet Legum Arbitration is proud to report that it has been included in its first year of existence in the prestigious GAR 100 (2022) ranking of arbitration specialist law firms globally, as “approved” by Global Arbitration Review, and is grateful to its clients and friends for their positive feedback. https://globalarbitrationreview.com/survey/gar-100/2022/organization-profile/honlet-legum-arbitration Back

At a seminar organized by ICC France on May 10, 2022, Jean-Christophe Honlet and Sébastien Pépin, Counsel at the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC, jointly spoke about security for costs and security for claims, including recent trends, whether there was a consistency of criteria retained by ICC tribunals to grant or deny these measures, whether more guidance was to be provided to arbitral…

On March 30, 2022, Bart Legum spoke at a seminar on fair and equitable treatment during Paris Arbitration Week organized by Jeantet. His intervention focused on the evolution of the US position on fair and equitable treatment in the early NAFTA cases. www.honletlegum.com Back

On March 24, 2022, Bart Legum delivered a paper on “Drafting Considerations for Mediation Provisions in Investment Treaties” at the Conference on Investor-State Mediation organized by Rikkyo University in Kyoto, Japan. www.honletlegum.com Back

Honlet Legum Arbitration garnered 6 individual rankings in its inaugural year in the newly released Chambers Global (2022) international arbitration rankings. Chambers’ rankings are exclusively prepared on the basis of client and peer-feedback. Jean-Christophe Honlet garnered 2 rankings, in the French and Europe-wide categories. Barton Legum garnered 4 rankings, in the French, Europe-wide, Africa-wide and Global Market Leaders categories. Chambers reported that Honlet, according to…