Recent experience

Experience as counsel

Experience in commercial arbitration

• Advising and representing a French company that designs, supplies and installs components, fuel, and control systems for nuclear power plants, in several ICC arbitration (seats in Paris, French law applicable) proceedings regarding post-M&A disputes
• Advising and representing two US companies created to design, build, launch and operate a constellation of linked communications satellites in lower earth orbit in ICC arbitration proceedings (seat in New York, French law applicable) against a leading company in the space industry
• Advising and representing one of the world’s largest beauty companies in an ICC arbitration (seat in Brussels, French law applicable) relating to the wrongful termination of a distribution agreement against the licensor of the luxury brand
• Advising an Iranian company in ICC arbitration proceedings against a Danish company (seat in Geneva, French law applicable) in a dispute relating to the supply of equipment necessary to operate a methanol plant.

Experience in investment arbitration

• In her former firm, Julie represented Iranian investors against the Republic of Korea in an UNCITRAL arbitration initiated under the bilateral investment treaty between Iran and Korea in relation to the expropriation of an investment in home appliance industrial company (Mohammad Reza Dayyani, et al. v. The Republic of Korea, PCA Case No. 2015-38) that led to a favourable award for 68 million USD against the Republic of Korea on June 5, 2018
• In her former firm, Julie represented Muhammet Cap & Sehil Inşaat Endustri ve Ticaret Ltd. Sti. against Turkmenistan in an ICSID arbitration initiated pursuant to a bilateral investment treaty in relation to 31 disputed construction projects in Turkmenistan (Muhammet Cap & Sehil Inşaat Endustri ve Ticaret Ltd. Sti. v. Turkmenistan, ICSID Case No. ARB/12/6) (until November 2018)

Experience before national courts

• Assisting Naftogaz in its efforts to have two arbitral awards for approximately USD 5 billion recognized and enforced against the Russian Federation’s assets located in France
• Advising and representing a Cypriot company against a Russian oligarch and his Cypriot investment vehicle to enforce an LCIA arbitral award

Experience as arbitrator

• Presiding arbitrator in an ad-hoc domestic arbitration proceeding relating to the price determination of a steam supply agreement
• Presiding arbitrator in an ICC arbitration regarding a family loan agreement between a Lebanese and a Luxembourg company governed by Luxembourg law
• Co-arbitrator in a CMAP case relating to the abrupt termination of a franchise agreement between two French companies in the individual houses construction industry
• Sole arbitrator in a DIAC arbitration between two UAE entities over an agreement for manpower outsourcing services agreement
• Sole arbitrator in an ICC Arbitration between a Spanish company and a North-African state-owned entity regarding the suspension of the treaty of friendship and co-operation between Spain and this country, affecting the performance of contracts for the sale and supply of cement
• Sole arbitrator in an ICC case between a North-African water and electricity state entity and a contractor relating to a construction dispute in the context of a public works agreement for a water supply project in the region

Relevant activities

• Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, Delegate of ICC France
• Member of the International Law Association (ILA), Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA)
• Founding member of Africarb, a group of young legal professionals with a shared interest in arbitration and Africa
• Visiting lecturer at the Centre for Mediation and Arbitration of Paris (CMAP)
• Visiting lecturer at the DESU Economic Law and the Master 2 Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation at University Paul Cezanne Aix-Marseille III
• Former co-chair of the below-40 organisation of the French Arbitration Committee (Comité Français de l’Arbitrage (CFA-40))

Recent publications

• Chapter “France”, in Arbitration Handbook 2025 (Global Legal Post), edited by Volterra Fietta
• Regular publications for Lexis Nexis UK
• Chapter “Working with Other Members of the Tribunal” co-authored with Michał Kocur in “International Arbitration in Practice” under the editorship of Courtney Lotfi, Alicja Zielinska-Eisen and Veronica Sandler Obregon
• Chapter “France”, in GAR Know-How Litigation, Global Arbitration Review Insight 2024 (with Jean-Luc Larribau et Anne-Claire Hans)
• Chapter “France”, in Arbitration Handbook 2023 (Global Legal Post), edited by Three Crowns
• L’influence des travaux de l’Association de droit international (International Law Association) sur la pratique de l’arbitrage international, in the ILA 2023 150-year anniversary of the ILA White book
• CEPANI Newsletter, Stories from a Young Arbitrator: “Walking on thin ice when addressing corruption as an arbitrator”
• Chapitre “France”, in Getting the Deal Through “Sovereign Immunity”, Lexology 2020 (with Yann Dehaudt-Delville)
• « ‘Avant l’heure, ce n’est pas l’heure ; après l’heure, ce n’est plus l’heure’ ou de l’effectivité du second alinéa de l’article 1526 du Code de procédure civile », CAPJIA 2020-4, co-authored with Yann Dehaudt-Delville
• Chapitre “France”, in The International Comparative Legal Guide to Investor State Arbitration, ICLG 2020 (with Yann Dehaudt-Delville)
•  Global Arbitration Review Litigation Know-How – Chapter France
• “L’arbitrage et les petits litiges”, in 3ème édition des Cahiers de l’Arbitrage du Conseil National des Barreaux (with Jean-Robin Costargent)
• “The gathering and taking of evidence under the IBA Guidelines on party representation in international arbitration: civil and common law perspectives” (2014) 8 Dispute Resolution International 37 (with Gisele Stephens-Chu)
• “Bilateral option clause – importance of clear and unequivocal wording”, International Law Office, 2014, (with Elie Kleiman)
• “NML v Argentina: Supreme Court tightens waiver of sovereign immunity test”, International Law Office, 2013 (with Elie Kleiman)
• “Dallah: one test, two different findings”, International Law Office, 2011 (with Elie Kleiman)
• “La réforme du droit de l’arbitrage, sous le double signe de la lisibilité et de l’efficacité”, Gazette du Palais, 2011, n° 26-27, p. 9 (with Elie Kleiman)
• “New arbitration law reform: the market’s verdict”, International Law Office, 2011 (with Elie Kleiman)
• “Long-awaited arbitration law reform finally passed”, International Law Office, 2011 (with Elie Kleiman)
• “La Haute juridiction écarte une nouvelle fois l’application de l’obligation de modérer le dommage en droit français de la responsabilité délictuelle”, Gazette du Palais, 2009, No 84-85, p 10 (with Shaparak Saleh)

Recent conferences 

• Les arbitrages accélérés, Colloque Les arbitrages Atypiques, Faculté de Droit, Economie et Administration de Metz, Juin 2025
• The Future of Infrastructure Disputes: Decarbonisation, Shifting Risk Dynamics, and Other Emerging Trends, Lalive PAW Event 2024, April 2025
• INSOL ADR Colloquium, Insol International PAW Event 2025, April 2025
• Arbitration and IT Disputes, CMAP, April 2025
• “The interplay between arbitration and State justice – Setting aside and Enforcement”, at the Paris Crime & Arbitration conference at Sciences Po, April 2024
• “The Morning After: What do ESG, Ethics (Anti-Corruption) and AI Reserve to Arbitration in the Future?, Le 16 Law PAW Event 2024, March 2024
• “The Art of Persuasive Advocacy: Perspectives in Effective Cross-Examination”, Young ITA and YAWP PAW Event, March 2024
• “The Peculiarities of Arbitration Cases involving State Entities”, ICC Arbitration’s pre-moot conference on “International Arbitration Involving Allegations of Corruption and State Entities”, March 2023
• Cambodia Parliamentary Committee, ASEAN-EU International Day, The Legal Framework and the French Experience of Commercial Courts and Enforceable Mediation/Conciliation (Based on the arbitration Model), December 22-23, 2022
• “Interaction between Regulation Bruxelles I bis and arbitration following the London Steam-Ship ECJ Decision”, during the 7th interview on private international law of the CEDIN Centre de droit international de Nanterre, November 2022
• Moderating the dinner debate on the National Courts’ Stance on Public Policy in International Arbitration, co-organized by the CFA-40 and the Rising Arbitrators Initiative (RAI)
• “What are legitimate responses when facing guerrilla tactics (both as counsel and as arbitrator)”, CCC Conference – Brussels, June 2022
• “The role of state courts in enforcement and setting aside proceedings involving fraud or corruption”, Dutch Arbitration Days, Amsterdam, June 2022
• “Is Finality under Fire?”, Paris Arbitration Week, March 2022
• “New CMAP Arbitration Rules”, Paris Arbitration Week 2021, 23 September 2021
• “Arbitration and insolvency”, Les jeudis du 16, Special Paris Arbitration Week 2021, 23 September 2021
• « International Arbitration, current perspectives», 4th edition of the seminar organised by UIA International Association of Lawyers, Session 2 “New Developments in Investment Arbitration”, 27 May 2021
• « Les actualités de l’arbitrage», MARDis du CMAP, 25 May 2021
• “Why do you need the International Bar Association Rules on the Taking of Evidence?”, Keynote speech for the Eastern European Foreign Investment Moot Court Competition – EEFI, 20 mai 202
• “Arbitrage : Quelle place aujourd’hui pour le Barreau de Paris?», 12 November 2020
• “Connecting points between criminal proceedings and arbitral proceedings», États Généraux de l’Arbitrage, CNB, 25 October 2020
• “The Control Of Potential Corruption Issues By State Courts In The Context Of Setting Aside And Enforcement Proceedings”, Conference on Allegations or Signs of Corruption in International Disputes, ICC Tel Aviv Arbitration Days, March 2020

Languages 

• English
• French