Gregory TRAVAINI

Before joining ENGIE and Amazon, Gregory was a Senior Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP for almost a decade, regularly advising clients in cross-border investment, construction, price review, contractual, post M&A and jurisdictional matters in particular under Algerian/ OHADA / Swiss/ Belgian/ Italian/ French and Bilateral Investment Treaty law, acting for both private investors and State entities, including emergency and parallel proceedings before local courts. He also acted as arbitrator.

Before that, Gregory was Deputy Counsel at the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris where he was directly in charge of more than 150 cases in particular in the Benelux, African and Middle Eastern regions.

He is a graduate of Paris II and Paris III Universities and University of London (King's College and the School of Oriental and African Studies) and holds a Ph. D in Comparative Law, where his thesis addressed ‘The Influence of European Powers on Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in West Africa: The African Legal Culture’.

He teaches and speaks at conferences on international dispute resolution, and is a founding member of AfricArb, a thriving group of legal professionals actively participating in the further development of arbitration as an efficient and accessible method of dispute resolution on the African continent.

He is admitted to the Paris Bar, was awarded the King's College London Principal's Award and is recognized by Who's Who Legal as a Future Leader in Arbitration.