Dr. Hamid GHARAVI

Hamid Gharavi, founding partner of Derains & Gharavi, is widely recognized as an arbitration and public international law expert. He received glowing feedback in Chambers Europe 2012 for his omnipresence in an impressive range of high profile investment treaty and commercial arbitration cases. Legal 500 portrays him as ‘a brilliant legal mind coupled with exceptional managerial abilities’. Hamid Gharavi has acted as arbitrator or counsel in over 100 commercial arbitrations under civil, common and Islamic law as well as in investment arbitrations under investment treaties and general public international law. He advises States and companies on public international law matters, including the accession to and denunciation of international treaties, boundary disputes, succession of States, compliance with national, regional and international sanctions, boycott and anti-boycott regulations, laws and conventions on corruption. Before joining forces with Yves Derains, he was a partner at Salans in Paris and worked for Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP in New York.