Eléonore Caroit
Eléonore CAROIT is a partner of Mourre, Chessa, Le Lay Arbitration. Prior to joining Mourre, Chessa, Le Lay Arbitration she practiced for more than ten years in international law firms based in Paris and Geneva.
Her main area of practice is international arbitration, including commercial and investment treaty arbitration. She has acted as counsel, arbitrator and as administrative secretary to arbitral tribunals in a number of international arbitral proceedings, both ad hoc and administered (ICC, ICSID, Swiss rules, CAM Milan, UNCITRAL, SCC and CMAP) in a wide range of jurisdictions and applicable laws.
Eleonore’s practice focuses on the energy, construction, and banking sectors. She often acts in arbitrations involving major players from Latin America and Africa.
Eleonore also regularly advises private and public clients in cross-border litigations and complex corporate matters. She also advices her clients in the implementation of collection and asset tracing strategies and represents them in annulment, enforcement and arbitration-related court proceedings before French and Swiss courts.
Eleonore Caroit graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po). She holds a joint Masters’ degree in Global Business Law from the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences-Po Paris. She also holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and received the Parker School recognition in international and comparative law.
Eleonore Caroit is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR representing the Dominican Republic. She is a co-chair of Comité Français de l’Arbitrage-40. She is part of the working group on arbitration of the French Conseil national des barreaux and is also a member of the arbitration consultative committee of Delos in Paris.
Eleonore Caroit is member of several professional associations including Arbitral Women, the International Bar Association (IBA), the Club Español del Arbitraje, ASA below 40, Young Arbitrators Forum of the ICC (YAF), Young ICCA, and the LCIA’s Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG). She is also a member of the Section des Avocats de Barreaux Etrangers (SABE) of the Geneva Bar.
Eléonore is featured in Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration – Future Leaders. The publication, which is based upon an independent survey of general counsel and private practice lawyers worldwide, profiles the foremost practitioners in the global arbitration community aged 40 and under.
Eleonore is bilingual in Spanish and French, fluent in English and Italian and has working knowledge of Portuguese.
Counsel in an arbitration pursuant to the Swiss Rules between a major consumer goods multinational against a Swiss contractor concerning defects in the construction of an office building
Applicable Law: Swiss Law
Seat: Geneva
Language: French
Counsel in civil litigation in various West African countries in relation to post-M&A disputes in the energy sector
Applicable Law: OHADA Law
Seat: African countries
Language: French
Counsel in an ICC arbitration in relation to a commercial dispute between one of the largest Egyptian steel companies and a multinational company
Applicable Law: Swiss Law
Seat: Geneva
Language: English
Counsel in an ad hoc arbitration between a public company of a Latin American country and an oil and gas company in relation to economic sanctions imposed in that Latin American Country
Applicable Law: Law of the Latin American Country
Language: Spanish
Counsel in an ICC arbitration between a French company and a Swiss Company in a commercial dispute in the banking sector
Applicable Law: French Law
Seat: Geneva
Language: French
Counsel in an ICC arbitration between a consortium of French banks and a Brazilian company in relation to a credit facility
Applicable Law: French Law
Seat: Paris
Language: English
Counsel in a VIAC arbitration between a major French construction company and its German supplier in the construction sector
Applicable Law: German Law
Seat: Vienna
Language: English
Counsel in an investment arbitration between an African state and a French company in relation to the dismantling of a fraudulent scheme in the banking and insurance sector
Applicable Law: International Law
Seat: Paris
Language: English
Counsel in an investment arbitration between an African state and a French company in the medical sector
Applicable Law: International Law
Seat: Brussels
Language: English
Counsel in an ICC arbitration between a consortium of foreign oil and gas companies against a State-owned entity in relation of a petroleum JV in a West African country
Applicable Law: French Law
Seat: Geneva
Language: English
Counsel in an ICC arbitration between major oil and gas players in Italy and Spain
Applicable Law: English Law
Seat: Geneva
Language: English
Counsel in a CMAP French domestic arbitration between two major French companies in the consumer goods distribution sector
Applicable Law: French Law
Seat: Paris
Language: French
Counsel in an SCC Arbitration involving a French multinational company and a Chinese company in the consumer goods sector
Applicable Law: English Law
Seat: Stockholm
Language: English
Counsel in an ICC arbitration between a Caribbean producer of consumer goods and its European distributor
Applicable Law: Law of the Caribbean State
Seat: Paris
Language: Spanish
ICCA research project Does a Right to a Physical Hearing Exist in International Arbitration?; National Report for Dominican Republic E. Caroit & E. Caroit, 2021
The fate of “perpetual” licence agreements under Swiss law T. Widmer & E. Caroit, TerraLex Connections, January 2020
E-learning to develop the arbitration practice of the National Council of French Bars, https://www.cnb.avocat.fr/fr/actualites/un-e-learning-pour-developper-votre-pratique-de-larbitrage-interne, 2019
L’arbitrage: une procédure adaptée au contentieux interne, Les Cahiers de l’Arbitrage – nouveaux domaines, nouvelles utilisations, 3rd Ed. Conseil National des Barreaux, 2017
Note: Société Tecnimont SPA v. Société J&P Avax, Supreme Court of Cassation of France, First Civil Law Chamber, Arrêt n° 758 FS-P+B+I, pourvoi n° P 11-26.529, 25 June 2014, Spain Arbitration Review | Revista del Club Español del Arbitraje, Wolters Kluwer España 2016, Volume 2016 Issue 25
Enforcement, France, In: Julien Fouret (Ed.), Enforcement of Investment Treaty Arbitration Awards, Globe Law and Business, 2015
Due process and virtual hearing: is the marriage going to last after covid?, CEPANI40 & CFA40 – Paris Arbitration Week, 24 September 2021
Webinar – Circumventing the natural limitations of witness evidence?, CFA40, 22 September 2021
Webinar – Arbitrating IP Disputes in the IT Industry: what to expect, CFA40 & WIPO ADR Young, 14 September 2021
Webinar – Wind of Change – Le Point de vue du praticien sur les révisions récentes ou envisagées des différents règlements d’arbitrage, CFA40, 18 March 2021
Webinar – Career growth in arbitration during the pandemic: dos et don’ts from those who did it!; – CFA40 & CEA40 – Miradas Cruzadas, 3 March 2021
Webinar – Enforcement against States: hot topics in Europe ; CFA40, 15 December 2020
Art and Arbitration, CFA40 Table d’Alfred, Paris, 17 September 2020
Sport and Arbitration, CFA40 Table d’Alfred, Paris, 16 July 2020
Webinar – What the seat got to do with it, CFA40, CEPANI40 & ASA40, 8 July 2020
Regards croisés sur l’arbitre, CEA40 & CFA40, Miradas crusadas, Paris, 27 February 2020
Arbitration and Artificial Intelligence, CFA40 Debate, Paris, 29 January 2020
Mining Arbitration in Africa, CFA40 Experts’ Series, Paris, 20 November 2019
Les Etats Généraux de l’Arbitrage, Annual Conference of the CNB, Paris, October 27, 2019
Debate on the Prague Rules, 3rd Annual GAR Live, Viena, 18 October 2019
Arbitration and Environmental Law, CFA40 Debate, Paris, 1 October 2019
Approaches to witness evidence in international arbitration, YCAP 2019 Spring Seminar Symposium Paris, 2 April 2019
Hague Convention on choice of court agreements and New York convention Allies or enemies?, V meeting of international chapters of the Spanish club of arbitration, Rome, 5 October 2018
The fundamentals of International Legal Business Practice, IBA Young Lawyer’s training, conference co-chair, Santo Domingo, 26 June 2018
Arbit & Co-chairs’ Circle, Third Co-chairs’ Circle Global Conference and Co-chairs’ Circle Retreat, Rome, 18 May 2018
Impugnazione del lodo per violazione delle regole di diritto, perspettiva francese e svizzera, Parigi Italia Arbitrato Conference, Paris Arbitration Week, Paris, 13 April 2018
Environmental Law and Investment Arbitration, Club Español del Arbitraje, CEA-40, ASA-40, SABE, Geneva, 19 February 2018
“La cautio judicatum solvi (security for cost) en arbitraje internacional ¿es una medida eficaz o una medida obstructora?, Club Español del Arbitraje, CEA-40, XI Encuentro del CEA-40: “Visiones internacionales del arbitraje, ¿hacia dónde vamos los jóvenes?”, Madrid, 18 June 2017
