Elie KLEIMAN brings 30 years of experience in dispute resolution, with a strong emphasis on cross-border litigation, international arbitration, and crisis management. His expertise extends to competition law, intellectual property, bankruptcy, and white-collar crime. He has served as lead counsel for large French and international companies in numerous high-profile disputes involving complex, business-sensitive issues, successfully guiding many of these disputes to favorable resolutions, whether in court, through arbitration, or via creative settlement solutions.

His arbitration practice encompasses investment, trade, joint ventures, and shareholders’ agreements, as well as long-term contracts, representations and warranties, licensing, distribution, and construction, particularly within the energy, natural resources, chemicals, life sciences, infrastructure, transport, telecommunications, media, and technology sectors. Elie possesses extensive knowledge of various institutional arbitration rules and ad hoc arbitration, and he regularly serves as both an arbitrator and a mediator.

In litigation, Elie handles public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate disputes, complex commercial contracts, corporate governance, directors’ liability, securities fraud, market abuse, torts, negligence, banking liability, insolvency, and product liability. His vast experience in cross-border disputes includes crafting effective strategies for evidence preservation and asset protection, coordinating proceedings across multiple jurisdictions, and enforcing decisions against both private and sovereign parties. He frequently advises global clients on crisis management and damage control.

Elie is actively involved in the French legal community, participating in several think tanks and advocating for Paris as a center for international dispute resolution. He regularly writes on topics related to international arbitration and litigation and teaches at various universities in Paris.

He is fluent in both English and French and is admitted to the Paris Bar.