Lead up is proud to announce that Baptiste Rigaudeau has been selected to co-chair the new Working Group launched by the Chambre Arbitrale Internationale de Paris (CAIP) on Arbitration in the Mining Sector. He takes on this role alongside Aboubacar Fall, Senior Partner at AF
Ramy Bassily, partner at Lead up in Paris, is appointed Representative of the International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration and ADR Forum (ICC YAAF) for the Middle East, for the 2026-2028 mandate. In this capacity, he will speak for the Middle East arbitration community within the
The 2026 French arbitration decree has been published: Decree No. 2026-741 of 6 August 2026, issued in the Official Journal of 7 August 2026, substantially modernises French domestic and international arbitration law. The text transposes into the Code of Civil Procedure much of the report
Depositors with Lebanese banks who are domiciled in France have a direct route to the French courts. Lead up avocats, a Paris-based firm dedicated to litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute settlement mechanisms, has analysed two rulings of the First Civil Chamber of the French Court
Lead up is pleased to announce that Anne-Sophie Tonin, partner at the firm, is recognised in the Future Leaders – Partners category of the Lexology Index: Construction 2026. The ranking was published on 15 June 2026. The Future Leaders category identifies the practitioners recognised as the
An award is only worth as much as its enforcement. Notes from a webinar on the enforcement of awards in the OHADA area, a setting that sheds light on questions which matter well beyond it. On 17 June 2026, Lead up took part in a webinar
On 11 June 2026, Best Lawyers published the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in France — the 17th edition of the guide, produced in partnership with Les Echos. Three Lead up partners are listed: Baptiste Rigaudeau, Julien Maire du Poset and Anne-Sophie Tonin. The Best
In the 2026 edition of Leaders League’s ranking of Arbitrators in France, published on 21 May 2026, the four partners of Lead up, Ramy Bassily, Julien Maire du Poset, Anne-Sophie Tonin and Baptiste Rigaudeau, are each listed. It is the first time all four partners
On Friday 22 May 2026, Baptiste Rigaudeau and Anne-Sophie Tonin, partners at Lead up Avocats, taught a two-hour seminar on mining sector dispute resolution to the students of the LLM in Advanced International Business Litigation of Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC). The seminar was held at
Five rankings. Two Highly Recommended. Your dispute resolution partner. Five rankings in France We are pleased to announce that Lead up has been ranked by Leaders League in its 2026 edition of rankings for France. Assessed across five practice areas spanning two categories (Dispute Resolution and Economic