Practice Areas
Isabelle focuses on international dispute resolution, particularly in cases involving States and State-owned entities.
She assists public and private entities before arbitral, national and international courts in all kinds of international disputes.
She is specialized in public international law, particularly in relation to the delimitation of land and maritime boundaries, State action at sea, and the management of offshore resources within and beyond areas of national jurisdiction. She also has extensive experience in assisting States in the drafting, deposit and defense of Article 76 Submissions before the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (New York).
Work Highlights
Advising the Republic of Gabon in its dispute against the Republic of Equatorial Guinea concerning sovereignty over the M'Banié Islands and the delimitation of the land and maritime boundary between the two States.
Advising the Republic of Senegal with regards to the redrafting of the Maritime Code and legal implications on the offshore oil and gas activities.
Advising Togo and Benin in the drafting of their joint Article 76 submission concerning the delineation of their outer continental shelf.
Advising the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire in its maritime boundary dispute against Ghana before the International Tribunal for the law of the Sea.
Advising the national telecommunications company of the Republic of Madagascar in an ICSID arbitration regarding the granting of a telecom license.
Advising the national oil company of Côte d'Ivoire in a dispute with a British company regarding the acquisition of an oil exploration block in Africa before an ICC arbitration tribunal (Paris) and French and British courts.
Advising the national oil company of Côte d'Ivoire in an ICC arbitration concerning the management of an upstream oil network across six African states.
