Baptiste RIGAUDEAU

Baptiste Rigaudeau specialises in dispute avoidance and dispute resolution, with a particular focus on arbitration, both commercial and between foreign investors and States. He has significant experience in the mining, banking, pharmaceuticals, hotels, energy, construction and telecommunications sectors. He has been involved, as counsel, tribunal secretary, or arbitrator in ad hoc (notably under UNCITRAL rules) and institutional arbitration (governed by ICC, ADCCAC, HKIAC, LCIA, SIAC, SCC, CIETAC, CMAP, Swiss Arbitration Centre and ICSID rules), governed by diverse procedural and substantive laws.

In addition, Baptiste has experience advising clients on settlement negotiations and on multi-jurisdictional disputes relating to asset tracing and recovery. He also acts as arbitrator.

Before joining Lead up, Baptiste practised over 12 years within litigation and arbitration departments of top law firms in Hong Kong, Houston, Madrid, Paris and Geneva.

He currently sits on the executive committee of Young Mining Professionals Switzerland and he co-chairs the dispute resolution group of the African Society of International Law. He is the immediate past chair of the Global Steering Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Young Members’ Group and was a member of the inaugural ICC Commission on the Belt and Road Initiative. He is also a member of the International Wine Law Association.