Alexandre de Gramont

Practice Areas

Alexandre de Gramont focuses his practice on investor-state arbitration and international commercial arbitration matters across a broad range of industries, arising from nearly every corner of the globe. His practice involves arbitrations before the ICSID, PCA, ICC, SCC, ICDR, and AAA as well as ad hoc arbitrations under UNCITRAL and other procedural rules. He represents parties in disputes across multiple industry sectors including energy and natural resources, life sciences, financial services, hospitality, aerospace, and Internet governance.

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Publications

Alex is a co-author of The International Arbitration Rulebook: A Guide to Arbitral Regimes (Kluwer 2019), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on international arbitration topics. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School and has taught courses sponsored by the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Law Institute (ILI).

In addition to his published work on legal topics, Alex is the editor and translator of a volume of Albert Camus’s war- time journalism (“Between Hell and Reason: Essays from the French Resistance Newspaper,” Combat, 1944-1947, University Press of New England).

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Alex has arbitrated cases in many of the world’s leading arbitration institutions and under its leading rules, including the ICC, ICDR, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, PCA, SCC, CPR, and JAMS. In addition to international commercial disputes between private parties, he has extensive experience in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), including arbitration against foreign States and State-owned enterprises. His experience includes claims under bilateral investment treaties (BITs), multi-lateral treaties and free-trade agreements (such as the Energy Charter Treaty, NAFTA, and CAFTA-DR), and foreign investment laws.

Industry Sector Expertise

Alex’s industry experience includes energy, mining, life sciences, hospitality, and financial services, in disputes arising throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Alex has also successfully represented clients in top-level domain disputes against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Many of his cases involve complex issues under public international and criminal law.