Ruxandra ESANU

Ruxandra Irina Esanu specializes in international arbitration, working across both investment treaty arbitration and commercial arbitration matters. As counsel, she has acted in over 20 international arbitrations arising out of the energy, oil and gas, mining, telecommunications, real estate, armament and construction sectors in Europe and Latin America. Ruxandra has experience in arbitrations governed by a range of procedural rules, including ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and GAFTA, as well as in ad hoc proceedings. She has also represented clients in annulment proceedings under the ICSID Rules. Ruxandra also acts as tribunal secretary in commercial arbitrations. She routinely works in English, Spanish and French.

Ruxandra serves as a Co-Chair of the Young Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) Mentorship Program, and is an ITA Advisory Board Representative under 40.

Alongside founding partner José Manuel García Represa, Ruxandra co-teaches the Damages module in the Transnational Dispute Settlement (TADS) LL.M. at Sciences Po University in Paris. She also teaches courses on cross-examination and procedural rules at the ARBANZA School of Arbitration. Between 2017 and 2021, Ruxandra coached a team of students from HEC University in Paris for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. She also previously coached a team of students from Sciences Po for the Latin American International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Prior to joining Wordstone, Ruxandra worked for nine years as an associate in the international arbitration practice of an international law firm in Paris. Before that, she was a legal intern at the Paris and London offices of another international law firm, and worked in the Bucharest offices of a French law firm. Ruxandra has also held a clerkship with the Second Civil Chamber of the French Court of cassation.