Jalal El Ahdab (Jil Ahdab)
10, place des Etats-Unis
75116 Paris
France
IBA, ICC, ASA, LCIA, CAS, CCFA
CAS, CAMED, DIAC, ICC, CRCICA, SIAC
Acted as counsel in various telecom-related disputes (ICC, LCIA, VIAC) and other world-trade disputes (ICC); acted as counsel in investment arbitrations (ICSID, UNCITRAL) for the investor (telecom and port activities); acted as counsel in a CAS dispute (transfer of a soccer player); acted as secretary for the tribunal in various ICC commercial arbitrations; appointed as coarbitrator or sole arbitrator in various international or domestic disputes
“Les parachutes dorés et autres indemnités conventionnelles de départ des dirigeants” (Golden parachutes and other severance packages for D&Os : a comparative (French/UK/US) approach), Revue des sociétés 2004, p.18; “Non-Signatory Participation in Arbitration Proceedings “, co-written with Peter Coll, ICC Publications, 2005, p.92; “L'interprétation restrictive du consentement à une clause compromissoire” (A restrictive interpretation of the consent to an arbitration clause), Revue Procédures, J.-Cl., January 2006, p.7; “Quand commence vraiment une procédure arbitrale?” (When does an arbitral proceeding actually start?), Revue de l’arbitrage 2007, p.80; “The assignment of an arbitration clause through a chain of contracts”, commentary of a French decision: Civ. 1ère, 27 mars 2007, Revue de l'arbitrage 2007, p.785; “Arab Arbitration vs. International Arbitration? The Case for a Reconciliation” with R. Stackpool-Moore, Journal International Arbitration, 25 (2) 275-288, 2008; “La prise en charge financière par la société de la responsabilité de ses dirigeants: vers un modèle américain?” (D&O's indemnification under French law: protecting the corporation's directors from liability and legal expenses following the US rules), Revue des sociétés 2008, p. 239; “Le nouveau droit algérien de l'arbitrage : Approche comparée franco-algérienne”, (The new Algerian Act: A comparision with French arbitration law), Cahiers de l'arbitrage, Gazette du Palais, March 20-21, 2009, p.29; “L'extension d'une clause d'arbitrage à un dirigeant de société”, (The extension of an arbitration clause to a corporate director), commentary of a French decision : Civ. 1ère, 22 Oct. 2008, Rev.soc. 2009, p.618; “The Amman Arab Convention for Commercial Arbitration”, in World Arbitration Reporter – International Encyclopedia of Arbitration Law and Practice, Juris-Net Publishing, vol. 4/Treaties and Bilateral and Regional Agreements, 2010; “Panorama de jurisprudence des pays arabes” (Recent Arab Case Law on Arbitration), Paris Journal of International Arbitration / Cahiers de l'Arbitrage 2010-4, p.1207; “The Draft of the Federal Arbitration Law of the United Arab Emirates”, IBA Arbitration Newsletter, Vol.16 No. 1 March 2011, p.126; “La gestion juridique du risque politique à l'aune des bouleversements actuels dans les pays arabes” (Managing the political uncertainy in light of the current upheavals in the Arab countries), La Lettre des Juristes d’Affaires (LJA), 28 mars 2011, n°1015, p.1; “Les institutions arbitrales alternatives au CIRDI et les arbitrages d'investissement” (ICSID-alternative arbitration centers and investissement arbitrations), in “Le CIRDI 45 ans après”,Compilation of contributions given in a 2010 conference in Tunis, Ed. Pédone, April 2011; “Arbitration Law and Consumer Law : are they (in)compatible ?”,Commentary of a French decision: Civ. 1ère, 25 Feb. 2010, Revue de l'arbitrage, 2011, p.139; “The new French Arbitration Act” (co-authored with Maria-Krystina Duval), News and Notes from The Institute for Transnational Arbitration, 2011; “Is Discovery still a foreign creature for civil lawyers in international arbitration?”, in Arbitration Advocacy in Changing Times, ICCA International Arbitration Congress, ICCA Congress Series n°15, Wolters Kluwer 2011, p. 65; “Arbitration With the Arab Countries, 3rd Revised and Expanded Edition”, co-edited with A.H. El Ahdab, 3rd edition, Kluwer, Aug. 2011; “International Bank and Other Guarantees in Lebanon”, in International Bank and Other Guarantees Handbook, Kluwer, Oct. 2012; “La gestion du risque arbitral par les parties” (How parties manage the « arbitration risk »), Revue générale de droit des assurances, to be published in 2012; “La clause compromissoire et les tiers”, (The Arbitration Clause and Third Parties), 1.400 pages (2 volumes), to be published by PUAM (in French) in the course of 2012.