Remy Gerbay

Practice Areas

Remy Gerbay (LL.M., Ph.D.) is a founding partner of Hexagon Advocates LLP, an elite U.S. litigation and arbitration law firm. Remy is Co-Head of the firm’s arbitration practice. He has extensive experience representing clients in international business disputes across various regions, including North America, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union.

Remy has arbitrated under all major arbitration rules, including e.g., the rules of the ICC, LCIA, AAA/ICDR, UNCITRAL, Swiss Chambers, DIAC, KIAC, and ICSID. He represents clients across various sectors such as energy, infrastructure, transportation, pharma, banking, and telecommunications.

Remy is bilingual in English and French, and is civil-law and common-law trained.

Prior to founding Hexagon Advocates, Remy practiced with leading litigation law firms in the U.S. and U.K. --most recently as a Partner and Head of Investment Arbitration at Hughes Hubbard & Reed. A former Deputy Registrar of the LCIA and Registrar of DIFC-LCIA, Remy has been appointed as arbitrator in over 35 international cases.

Remy also holds a permanent academic appointment at the University of London (Queen Mary), where he is the co-director of an LL.M. program in arbitration. Remy has co-authored treatises on ICSID and LCIA arbitration. He is a leading academic authority on arbitral institutions.

Remy is a Vice President of the International Court of AFSA, a leading African arbitration institution. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of International Arbitration, and a former Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law’s Dispute Resolution group.

Professional Memberships

Vice President of the International Court, Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) (2023 – Present)

Editor in Chief of the Journal of International Arbitration (2025 – Present)

Advisory Board Member, Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Center for American and International Law (CAIL) (2024 – Present)

Member Emeritus of Georgetown University Law Center’s European Law Alumni Advisory Board (2024 – Present)

Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law’s Dispute Resolution Interest Group (2021 – 2024)

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Arbitration (Kluwer) (2020 – 2024)

Member of the International Arbitration Club of New York (2020 – 2024)

Member of the Editorial Board of the ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin (2017 – 2020)

Member of the Academic Committee of the Global Pound Conference (2016 – 2017)

Global Co-Chair of the Young International Arbitration Group (2013 – 2017)

Work Highlights

Pursuing a $1 billion Bilateral Investment Treaty claim against the Republic of Azerbaijan arising out of an Iranian national’s investments Azerbaijan (UNCITRAL rules; PCA)

Advising a project sponsor in relation to a suite of legal issues concerning a $1 billion renewable energy project in the United States (arbitration/litigation/restructuring)

Pursuing a $120 million Bilateral Investment Treaty claim against the Dominican Republic arising out of a French national’s investment in the waste management sector (UNCITRAL rules; PCA)

Pursuing a $100+ million Bilateral Investment Treaty claim against the Republic of Azerbaijan concerning the treatment received by a Turkish national’s investments in the public works sector (ICSID)

Representing a Middle Eastern pharmaceutical company in a large/complex arbitration against a global drug manufacturer arising out of an IP licensing agreement (ICC)

Representing the Republic of Equatorial Guinea in award-enforcement court proceedings in the United States (District Court for the District of Columbia, and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal) arising from an arbitration related to a hospital management contract

Advising the national gas utility of Moldova with respect to award-enforcement appeals proceedings in the United States (D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal)

Advising an Israeli life sciences company with respect to various IP disputes arising out of joint venture and other agreements to develop medical imaging technologies (litigation and arbitration)

Representing a Russian-owned BVI company in an international arbitration arising out of a failed investment in a fast-growing private tech company (ICDR)

Advising a transport company’s former CEO with respect to a dispute under an indemnification agreement (AAA Comm. Rules)

Acting for a South Asian construction group against a U.S. company in two arbitrations relating to the construction of a $500 million highway in Africa (LCIA)

Representing a high-profile Ukrainian industrial group and its ultra-high-net-worth founder in an arbitration arising out of the acquisition of stake in a bank valued at over €130 million (LCIA)

Representing a Latin American bank in two sets of parallel proceedings arising out of a $17 million commodities transaction in Sub-Saharan Africa (LCIA)

Acting for a Spanish solar energy contractor in relation to applications for urgent interim relief relating to calls made under three performance bonds (LCIA)

Advising a Peruvian oil company in relation to contesting a world-wide freezing injunction in the English courts and claiming damages caused by it

Advising a large Eurasian coal company on arbitration law issues in the context of LCIA proceedings initiated against it by banks in connection with the restructuring of credit facility agreements (LCIA)

Engaged to draft Rwanda’s arbitration and mediation law

Expert in these Jurisdictions

United States

France (and EU law)

England

Sub-Saharan Africa

Languages Spoken

English

French

Spanish (reading)

Experience

Remy regularly sits as arbitrator (Chair, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator, and emergency arbitrator) . He has been appointed in over 35 cases, seated in the United States, England, France, Switzerland, the UAE, Africa, and the Baltics.