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Maëlle
Thirard-Guerrier
Paris
Avocat
+33 (0) 1 40 54 51 00
CV (English)
Expertise
International Litigation

Enforcement & Asset Recovery

Anti-Fraud

Sanctions
Professional background
Trained at Bredin Prat

Trained at Herbert Smith Freehills

Trained at Allen & Overy

Trained at Squire Patton Boggs
Education
Versailles Saint-Quentin University (Paris-Saclay) - Master in International Arbitration and Business Law

Paris West Nanterre University - Master 1 in International Law (major in International Business Law and Litigation)

Oxford Brookes University (UK) - Erasmus
Languages
French

English
Professional affiliations
Association For Arbitration (Association Française d’Arbitrage – AFA) – Secretary General
Maëlle’s practice focuses on complex cross-border disputes.

She has significant experience in international litigation and enforcement of foreign judgments/arbitral awards, against sovereigns and in fraud matters.

She also advises clients on international business law, international contract law and international sanctions.
Details of recent activities
Counsel to a North American multinational chemical company opposing the recognition and enforcement in France of a Latin American judgment issued in the context of fraud

Counsel to a European company in the worldwide enforcement of two ICC arbitral awards against an African state

Counsel to a European pharmaceutical company in the enforcement in France and Switzerland of an English judgment and worldwide freezing orders against fraudsters

Counsel to a European company in the enforcement in France of an English order against a Middle Eastern individual

Counsel to the liquidator of a European bank to enforce of multiple LCIA arbitral awards against a group of former shareholders

Counsel to a major European consumer electronics company in the context of an attachment performed in its hands as a garnishee

Counsel to a Central Asian school for the recision of the sale of a piece of land

Counsel to a South Asian company victim of bank fraud
Full bio
Publications
Créanciers et sanctions internationales : « Tout m’afflige et me nuit et conspire à me nuire », Cahiers de l’Arbitrage 2024, No. 2, p. 459