January 30, 2023
Dr. Jalal (Jil) El Ahdab is a partner in the Dispute Resolution practice of Bird & Bird, based in Paris and is the head of Bird & Bird’s arbitration department in France. Before joining Bird & Bird, Jil was a partner with GMPV. Jil’s practice covers international business law, notably related to the Arab world and Europe, and more specifically in the field of international disputes and foreign investments. Having acted as a counsel, arbitrator a nd expert in about 100 cases, Jil has strong experience in managing international disputes and particularly disputes regarding shareholders and securities suits, class actions, breach of negotiations, bank guarantees. The type of business his practice incl udes relates to the trade of commodities, telecom markets, port concessions, construction industry and sport; etc. With a solid academic background (degrees in law, finance and political science), he is well regarded from a scientific standpoint. He is Leb anon’s UNCITRAL Representative and a member of the ICC Court. Also, he chairs the European Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is the vicechair of the IBA Arab Regional Forum. A regular speaker at numerous international arbitration confer of various articles and the coences, Jalal is the author author of Arbitration with the Arab Countries (Kluwer, 2011). He is also managing editor of the International Journal of Arab Arbitration, available on www.kluwerarbitration.com and www.intljaa.com . In 2019, he will publish a book on Arbitration Law in France, with Professor Daniel Mainguy (LexisNexis). Jalal is also a lecturer in arbitration law at the Versail SciencesPo Paris (IEP). Jil holds a doctorate in law from Paris I les University and Sorbonne (2003) and also graduated in Political Sciences & International Finance from Sciences Po Paris (1998), in Business & Management from the Institut Supérieur de G from Columbia Law School (2002). estion (1995) and obtained his LLM He is admitted to practice in Paris (France), Beirut (Lebanon) and New York (USA) and is fluent in French, English and Arabic.
