Nadia Darwazeh#10287

Nadia Darwazeh

Lawyer, Clyde & Co LLP
Nadia Darwazeh is a Partner and Head of Arbitration of Clyde & Co's Paris office. Nadia has extensive experience acting as counsel in commercial and investor-state arbitrations. She also regularly and sits as arbitrator. Before joining Clyde & Co, Nadia practiced for two decades in the International Arbitration Groups of leading international law firms in Paris, Shanghai, Frankfurt and London and as Counsel at the ICC, where she headed up the Europe, Middle East and Africa team. 

Nadia is dual-qualified in England & Wales (Solicitor-Advocate) and Germany (Rechtsanwältin). She earned her LLM in International Public Law from the University of Cambridge and her LLB from the University of Warwick. She conducts arbitrations in French, German and English and speaks Dutch and Mandarin Chinese.

Contributed to

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Challenging the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals and the status of arbitration related anti-suit
Challenging the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals and the status of arbitration related anti-suit
Practice Notes

This Practice Note sets out the procedure for challenging the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals in French courts and the French perspective on anti-suit injunctions.

Corruption and Money Laundering in International Arbitration
Corruption and Money Laundering in International Arbitration
Practice Notes

This Practice Note is designed to facilitate identifying and understanding how to deal with corruption and money laundering issues in arbitrations. The step-by-step approach briefly covers the main issues that need to be considered to ensure that an enforceable award is rendered, identifying illicit activities, steps that may need to be taken to address illicit activities as well as consideration of the consequences for awards if corruption and money laundering are established.

Enforcing arbitral awards in France
Enforcing arbitral awards in France
Practice Notes

This Practice Note sets out the procedure and conditions to obtain the recognition and enforcement of international arbitration awards (ie, international arbitral awards rendered in France and arbitral awards rendered abroad) in France.

Interim remedies granted by arbitral tribunals seated in France
Interim remedies granted by arbitral tribunals seated in France
Practice Notes

This Practice Note discusses the interim remedies available to arbitral tribunals seated in France.

State immunity and arbitration in France
State immunity and arbitration in France
Practice Notes

This Practice Note discusses the role and impact of state immunity on arbitration proceedings seated in France.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2000

Experience

  • Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP (Paris) (2012 - 2018)
  • Counsel –Europe, Africa and Middle East, ICC Court of Arbitration (Paris) (2009 - 2012)
  • Counsel –O’Melveny & Myers LLP (Shanghai) (2006 - 2009)
  • Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP and Jones Day LLP (Frankfurt, Paris) (2000 - 2006)

Qualifications

  • LPC (1997)
  • LLM in International Public Law (1996)
  • LLB (1995)

Education

  • College of Law, London (1997)
  • University of Cambridge (1996)
  • University of Warwick (1995)

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