Jean-Paul Dechamps

Founding Partner at Dechamps International Law

Speaker

Jean Paul is the firm’s Global Head and has over 20 years’ experience representing private investors, States and State agencies in investment and commercial disputes all over the world. He has been recognized as a “Global Leader” in international arbitration by Who’s Who Legal since 2021 and has been listed in the “45 under 45” ranking of Global Arbitration Review which identifies the 45 most prominent arbitration practitioners under the age of 45 around the globe. He is ranked in the Chambers Latin America Guide 2023 and has been recognized as a “next generation partner” by The Legal 500.

Educated in the civil law and common law systems, Jean Paul has been involved as arbitrator and counsel in over 40 international arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA and CEMA, with a particular focus in the mining, electricity and energy sectors. He is a solicitor of England and Wales and is also qualified as an attorney in New York and Buenos Aires.

He started his career in 2002 in the disputes group of a full-service firm in Buenos Aires. In 2005 and 2006 he worked in the litigation department of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, in London. Between 2007 and 2017, he worked in the international arbitration group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, spending time in the Paris, Washington D.C. and London offices. In 2017 he founded Dechamps International Law.

Jean Paul maintains an active academic activity in the field of international arbitration. He currently teaches, the Seminar on the Practice of International Arbitration to the students of the Master of Law at King’s College London. He is also a visiting professor at the Austral University (Buenos Aires) where he teaches a Practical Seminar on International Arbitration. Jean Paul also teaches the Workshop on Examination of Witnesses for the Degree in Law & Bachelor in Global Governance students at ESADE University in Barcelona. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Latin American Journal of International Commercial Law, edited by the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM).