Chambers Review
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International Arbitration - France
What the Team is Known For
Derains & Gharavi is a highly respected boutique dedicated exclusively to international arbitration and related litigation matters. The law firm balances its practice between investment and commercial operations, and acts in cases across the globe, from Europe and the Middle East to Asia and Africa. The team has numerous prominent arbitrators within its ranks who are especially active in the construction and oil and gas industries.
Strengths
We work perfectly with Derains & Gharavi. It is a really excellent boutique law firm in this area and the lawyers are absolute experts.
Derains & Gharavi is an outstanding law firm for international arbitration matters.
Derains & Gharavi's advice addresses a multitude of aspects and provides succinct summaries of the issues and a clear road map of actions.
Our lawyers at Derains & Gharavi demonstrated a detailed working knowledge of specific matters pertinent to our disputes, thereby instilling in us a degree of confidence in us in the risks ahead.
The team at Derains & Gharavi have expertise and experience in international arbitrations and their service levels and responsiveness are very good.
Work Highlights
Derains & Gharavi represented the Central Bank of Iran in an investor-state arbitration against the Kingdom of Bahrain over Bahrain’s breaches of the Iran-Bahrain BIT.
Notable practitioners
Hamid Gharavi remains a go-to for clients in major investment cases. His respected practice sees him regularly acting in cases with Middle Eastern aspects, as counsel or as arbitrator.
Hamid has phenomenal breadth of practice acting for states in investment arbitration. He is effective, practical and good with difficult parties.
Hamid Gharavi is a great strategist who is excellent at client relationships. I admire his ability to create the best strategies for his clients.
Hamid Gharavi is a talented lawyer who is smart, agile and very good at what he does.
Hamid Gharavi is very dedicated to his work and his customers' interests.
Hamid Gharavi has excellent communication skills and an incredible ability to absorb information and understand the details of a case.
Yves Derains maintains a leading reputation in the arbitration field and acts as chair and co-arbitrator in commercial and investment cases.
Yves Derains is a very focused, talented and smart lawyer.
Yves Derains' subtlety and expertise are absolute key to some arbitrations. I look forward to working with him when matters require subtlety.
Yves Derains is a massively experienced and a very smart and commercial lawyer.
Yves Derains is an incredible arbitrator who is super brilliant and hard-working.