Laurent Aynès

Practice Areas

Arbitration, Conciliation / Mediation

Legal opinion / Legal expert

Career

Laurent Aynès is Doctor of laws and agrégé des facultés de droit since 1982. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne (1990-2017) where he taught contract law.

He joined Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier Law firm as Partner in January 2014.

Laurent is the author, with Prof. Malaurie, of a treaty of Civil law (nine volumes regularly updated). He is one of the two scientific directors of the Revue des contrats. He has developed a worldwide experience and is one of the most well-known civil lawyers in Europe and is well regarded as an independent arbitrator. He practices arbitration primarily in the fields of international trade, joint ventures, construction, engineering, distribution, telecommunications, oil and gas and intellectual property under the rules of the ICC, Vienna Centre, Icsid, Uncitral, and in ad hoc proceedings. He has acted as a chairman, co-arbitrator or sole arbitrator in about 200 cases since 1990 and as legal consultant since 1978, mainly in business matters. He appears as French law expert before UK and US Courts, as well as before arbitral tribunals in numerous cases.