Overview
Iulia Anghelescu is an Associate practicing in the firm's international arbitration team.
She is admitted to the Paris Bar and focuses on international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations in sectors including infrastructure, energy, shipping or global trade. She has acted in arbitrations seated in Paris, London, Bucharest, Vienna and Geneva, under arbitration rules including ICC, LCIA, VIAC, ICSID or UNCITRAL, and with various substantive laws governing the merits.
Iulia is dual educated in both civil and common law, having graduated with an LLB in English Law from Queen Mary, University of London and having obtained an LLM from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas. Prior to joining the firm, she trained as a lawyer in the arbitration departments of major international law firms in Paris and at the École de Formation du Barreau in Paris. She also acted as tribunal secretary for a French arbitrator based in Paris and was a Lawyer-Linguist Trainee at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. She is an Assistant Editor with the Romanian Arbitration Journal.
She is fluent in English and French.
Relevant Matters:
- Member of the legal team representing Romanian entities in an arbitration involving the operation of the largest shipyard in Romania.
- Member of the legal team representing a Romanian State-owned energy company in an ICC arbitration initiated by a foreign partner (place of arbitration: Paris).
- Member of the legal team representing a foreign country in an ICC arbitration initiated by Australian investors in the mining sector (place of arbitration: Paris).
- Member of the legal team representing a foreign country authority in an ICC arbitration initiated by investors in the construction sector (place of arbitration: Geneva).
Publications:
- “Book Review: Judging Iran, A Memoir of The Hague, The White House and Life on the Front Line of International Justice, by Hon. Charles Brower”, Revista Română de Arbitraj, 3/2023, p. 121-128.
- “LIDW 2024: Shifting Attitudes Towards Third Party Funding – Views from Across the Globe”, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 8 iunie 2024.