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Dispute Resolution
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ASAFO & CO.’s dispute resolution and international arbitration department provides seamless coverage and handling of clients’ disputes, whether before national courts, community courts of justice, regulatory bodies or international arbitral tribunals.
The team has longstanding relationships with many international clients, including energy and natural resources clients, industrial clients, aeronautical clients, as well as African states.
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- States
Industries (3)
- Energy
- Industrial
- Aeronautical
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ASAFO represented the Republic of Gabon in a public international law dispute with the Republic of Equatorial Guinea relating to the sovereignty of the M'Banié Islands and the delimitation of the maritime border between the two states.
Strengths
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ASAFO & CO have seasoned lawyers in the team who are very responsive and provide great advice.
Dispute Resolution respondentGlobalThey are very professional and very technically strong. What makes a difference, from my perspective, is their ability to take geopolitical issues into account.
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Spotlight Charles Kaplan
Charles Kaplan is an accomplished international arbitrator and arbitration counsel who is commended by sources for his extensive experience in investment treaty arbitrations. Of late his African work has had a particular emphasis on disputes arising out of mining projects.
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