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Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP

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Focused on commercial and investment disputes, predominantly in relation to energy and infrastructure, Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP‘s London group has ’very detailed knowledge of investment arbitration‘. London IDR leader Rupert Reece ’brings gravity to hearings‘; and raised to partner in June 2022, Saadia Bhatty heads the investment arbitration arm of the firm’s London’s international arbitration practice. At counsel level, Hannah McIrvine acts for clients from the construction, energy, commercial, technology, and insurance sectors.

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Testimonials

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  • 'Gide's particular attribute is its experience and knowledge of the Continental European market, and the business culture of the key players.’
  • ‘Rupert Reece is a pleasure to work with. He has a very easygoing nature, but is extremely knowledgable.’

  • 'Rupert Reece brings gravity to hearings and is very convincing.'

  • 'Its ability to work as a team across different offices (London and Paris), and to work very closely with local counsel in Mauritania has been much appreciated.'

  • 'Very detailed knowledge of investment arbitration, especially in relation to tax and mining issues.'

  • 'The team is very talented and its advocacy skills are excellent.'

  • 'Saadia Bhatty is outstanding - her technical analysis, strategic thinking and advocacy skills are all excellent.'

  • 'Saadia Bhatty has very good knowledge of mining and tax disputes on the African continent.'

Key clients

  • Consortium formed between Powerchina Huadong Engineering Corporation and China Railway 18th Bureau Group Company

Work highlights

  • Acted for a consortium (formed by Powerchina and China Railway) in two arbitration procedures against VSH, a Vietnamese state-owned energy company, arising out of a contract for the design, engineering, and construction of tunnels for a hydroelectric project.

Lawyers

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Saadia Bhatty

Saadia Bhatty

Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I.

Admitted to the New York Bar in 2010 and Paris Bar in 2018, Saadia Bhatty is a partner within Gide's Dispute Resolution practice group in London. She has more than 13 years' experience (including in Paris and New York) as counsel to private and state entities in cross-border disputes, in particular in international arbitration proceedings (commercial and investment), governed by the rules of various institutions (including ICC, ICSID, LCIA, PCA, SCC, HKIAC, VIAC, CAS and OHADA rules), as well as in ad hoc arbitrations (UNCITRAL), subject to the laws of both civil and common law jurisdictions. Fields of expertise include the energy, oil and gas, and construction sectors, particularly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Saadia also advises governments in the drafting/reform of their investment treaties and national legislation. She is a graduate from Harvard Law School, the Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure Saadia regularly writes articles, lectures in top universities, trains private practitioners and government officials, and speaks at conferences in international arbitration across the world.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Rupert Reece, Saadia Bhatty

Other key lawyers

Hannah McIrvine