Noah heads Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s international arbitration practice group in Paris as well as the global CIS/Russia dispute resolution practice group. A US- and English-qualified, Russian-speaking lawyer, he has represented clients in nearly 100 arbitrations under ICSID, ICSID additional facility, ICC, AAA, SCC, VIAC, LCIA, ICAC, and UNCITRAL rules, including some 30 investment treaty disputes. He specialises in construction and energy disputes, particularly upstream, pursuant to contracts and under the auspices of bilateral investment treaties. Noah has practiced law in New York, Washington, Houston and Istanbul, and has also served as arbitrator in over 40 cases under ICC, LCIA, SCC, ICSID, VIAC, ICAC and UNCITRAL rules. He speaks English, French and Russian fluently, and has a working knowledge of Spanish and Hebrew.

Clément specialises in international commercial and investment arbitration. Clément has thirteen years’ experience advising on major litigation and arbitration proceedings. He has regularly acted for French and international clients in arbitrations seated across the globe and has particular experience in complex disputes in the construction, energy and infrastructure, mining, defence and distribution sector, as well as considerable experience with joint ventures and post-acquisition disputes.

Yuri Mantilla is an attorney part of the international arbitration and public international law groups of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Paris. He has represented governments and private parties in a broad range of cases, having acted as counsel and assistant to arbitral tribunals in proceedings under the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, CAM Santiago, and CRCICA rules that involved construction, energy, infrastructure, and natural resources projects in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. https://www.freshfields.com/en-gb/contacts/find-a-lawyer/m/mantilla-yuri/

Xavier is a specialist in quantum assessments, claim and contract management, for large construction projects. Xavier has been involved in numerous arbitrations procedures administered by the ICC, SCC and also by Arbitration and Mediation Centre in Santiago. Xavier has been appointed quantum and delay expert for ICC DAB procedure, as well as co-authored a quantum expert report for an ICC arbitration in South America. During the last nine years, Xavier has worked on international construction arbitrations cases in French, English and Spanish, seated in Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Xavier has a master’s degree in Economy and Business at Sorbonne University (Paris 1) and is currently an LLM candidate at Queen Mary University of London.