Lucas DE FERRARI

Lucas De Ferrari is a partner in the International Arbitration Group in Paris. Lucas specializes in commercial and investment arbitration, with a focus on disputes in the construction, infrastructure and energy sectors. A dual-citizen of Argentina and France, Lucas is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Lucas' practice focuses primarily on construction disputes involving multiple and complex claims, including delay-related and disruption claims, and has significant experience of representing both employers and contractors in a variety of civil and common law jurisdictions.

Lucas is experienced with multiple forms of dispute resolution, including international arbitration (including under the ICC, SCC, LCIA, SIAC and UNCITRAL rules), adjudication / DABs / DAABs, mediation and expert determination.

In addition to his construction practice, Lucas has significant experience of annulment proceedings before French courts, and of disputes before French courts more generally (in particular, in relation to the enforcement and freezing of performance bonds / guarantees). Lucas is a lecturer on French arbitration law at the Paris-Est University, University of Montpellier and Sciences Po.

Prior to joining White & Case, Lucas worked in the arbitration departments of several international law firms in Paris and was an intern at the Secretariat of the Court of Arbitration of the ICC.