A partner leading our International Arbitration group in Paris, Laurent Gouiffès is "very smart and energetic. He gets to the bottom of each issue no matter how difficult or challenging it is," Chambers Global 2017.

Recognised on the market as an "'undisputed specialist' on technology and energy-related international arbitrations" in Who's Who Legal 2014, he is has been described by sources as "disarmingly persuasive, knowledgeable, articulate and poised" in Chambers Europe, 2012, as well as "one of the leading partners in investment arbitration and as a great strategist" by Who's Who Legal 2017.

With a key focus on energy-related, technological, and investment disputes, Laurent regularly acts on behalf of clients in the oil and gas, mining, electricity, nuclear, aerospace, and telecommunications industries as well as on behalf of states. He has over 20 years' experience acting in high-profile, complex international arbitrations and mediations and has a vast experience of arbitration under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, ICSID, and UNCITRAL. He has also acted in a number of disputes brought under the Energy Charter Treaty. Laurent also acts as arbitrator in cases before the ICC, LCIA, and Chamber of Arbitration of Milan. He is dual-qualified in France and England.

Laurent also regularly speaks and publishes on topical issues in arbitration, energy, and public/private international law, including giving lectures on energy arbitration at LSE in London and Sciences Po in Paris.