Laurie ACHTOUK-SPIVAK

Laurie Achtouk-Spivak is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb. Her practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation, as well as public international law.

Laurie represents clients in commercial arbitrations as well as investors and sovereigns in investment treaty arbitrations under various arbitral rules including ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCC, and LCIA, among others. She has experience handling high-stake disputes in various sectors including energy and natural resources, infrastructure projects, financial services, and life sciences. She often provides companies with investment structuring advice, and she advises and lectures on sustainability matters. Laurie acts as an arbitrator and is a CEDR-accredited mediator.

EDUCATION
Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
Université de Paris II - Panthéon-Assas (D.E.A.)
Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (D.E.S.S.)
Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)

LANGUAGES
French
English
Italian

BAR ADMISSION
Paris
New York