Full Name
Philippe Pinsolle
Job Title
Partner
Company
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Speaker Bio
Philippe Pinsolle is the head of international arbitration for continental Europe and is based in the firm's Geneva office.

He has over twenty-five years of experience as a counsel, expert, and arbitrator in international arbitration. He has acted as counsel in more than 300 international arbitrations and as arbitrator in more than 70 cases, with a particular focus on Investor-State arbitrations and commercial disputes involving the energy, power, oil & gas, construction, and defense industries. He has been involved in arbitrations under the auspices of virtually all major arbitration institutions including the ICC, the LCIA, the ICSID, the SCC, the AAA, the ICDR, the Swiss Chambers of Commerce, the AFA, the ADCCAC, as well as in ad hoc cases under the UNCITRAL rules or otherwise. Philippe holds an M.B.A from ESSEC in addition to his dual legal qualification as a French avocat a la cour as well as an English barrister. He is recognized universally as one of the arbitration lawyers (acting as arbitrator or counsel) that best understands quantum issues.

Philippe a member of the Court of Arbitration of Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) since 2019. In that capacity, he has developed an intimate knowledge of the internal functioning of this institution, having served on multiple occasions in ad hoc committees tasked with making decisions under the SIAC Rules on prima facie jurisdiction, consolidation in particular. He is also the former President of the French Arbitration Committee and a former senior co-chair of the IBA arbitration committee. He is an Advisor of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the Thailand Arbitration Centre (THAC).
Philippe Pinsolle