Gisèle STEPHENS-CHU

Gisèle is a dual-qualified French Avocat and English Solicitor-Advocate with twenty years' experience in international dispute resolution.

Skilled in resolving the most complex disputes, Gisèle is recognised for her strong commercial and client focus. She has acted for corporations and States or State-owned entities in approximately fifty disputes, often involving high value claims, in many jurisdictions in Africa, Europe and elsewhere. She has handled significant matters and arbitrations under English law, French law and other common law and civil law systems. She argues cases in English and French and speaks fluent Spanish and some German.

While her experience spans a range of industry sectors, Gisèle has significant expertise in oil and gas, power and infrastructure disputes.

Gisèle is recognised as a Global Leader by Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration and by the Legal 500 (Private Practice Powerlist, Arbitration, France). She regularly publishes and speaks on international arbitration and international law and teaches at Université Paris II Panthéon Assas.

In addition to her counsel work, Gisèle serves as arbitrator and is a CEDR-accredited mediator.