Laurent Gouiffès

A partner leading our International Arbitration group in Paris, Laurent Gouiffès is praised by clients for his strategic skills, with one saying: "He anticipates and is very attuned to the sensibilities of the tribunal." Chambers Europe 2021

Recognised on the market as "remarkably practical, business-minded, charismatic, and a great team leader, following a results-based approach, where he constantly goes back and forth to keep to the details and the big picture, his strength is that he does not take anything for granted, constantly looking at the case from new angles." Legal 500 EMEA 2020

Sources further praise his leadership skills and describe him as "energetic, motivated and enthusiastic" Chambers Global 2020, as well as "extremely persistent and forceful when it comes to making the client's point in hearings." Chambers Europe France 2019

With a key focus on energy-related, technological, and investment disputes, Laurent regularly acts on behalf of clients in the oil and gas, mining, electricity, nuclear, aerospace, and telecommunications industries as well as on behalf of states. He has over 20 years' experience acting in high-profile, complex international arbitrations and mediations and has a vast experience of arbitration under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, and UNCITRAL. He has also acted in a number of disputes brought under the Energy Charter Treaty. Laurent also acts as arbitrator in cases before the ICC, LCIA, and Chamber of Arbitration of Milan. He is dual-qualified in France and England.

Laurent regularly speaks and publishes on topical issues in arbitration, energy, and public/private international law, including giving lectures on energy arbitration at LSE in London and Sciences Po in Paris.