Caroline Richard

International Arbitration; Investor-State Arbitration; Energy/Natural Resources/Infrastructure; Telecommunications; Manufacturing; and Industrials.

Caroline is a partner in Freshfields’ Washington DC office, having previously practiced in the firm’s London and Paris office. Caroline has acted in some of the world’s largest arbitrations, under contracts and investment treaties. Both common and civil law trained, Caroline conducts arbitrations in English, Spanish and French. Prior to joining Freshfields, she clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada, and obtained law degrees from Harvard Law School (LLM), Cambridge University (LLM, first class) and Université de Montréal (LLB/DESS). She is an Adjunct Professor at American University’s Washington College of Law where she co-teaches a course on investment treaty arbitration.

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Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), Advisory Board Member of Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners’ group, Councillor of the LCIA North American Users’ Council, Co-Chair of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution's (CPR) Investment Arbitration Committee, and Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) 2026 Annual Meeting.

Co-author of "A Guide to the ICSID Additional Facility Arbitration Rules", Oxford University Press (2022).

MVP of the Year, International Arbitration

Law360

2019

MVP of the Year, International Arbitration

Law360

2024

500 Leading Global Litigators

Lawdragon

2025

500 Leading Global Litigators

Lawdragon

2024

Thought Leader, Arbitration

Lexology Index

2025

500 Leading Global Litigators

Lawdragon

2023