Biography
Jean Paul is the global head of Dechamps International Law, a leading international arbitration boutique with offices in London and Buenos Aires. With over 20 years’ experience representing private investors, States and State agencies in investment and commercial disputes, he has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal 2021 and 2022 as a “Global Leader” in international arbitration and has been ranked in the “International Arbitration – International Counsel” section of the Chambers Latin America Guide 2023.
Educated in the civil law and common law systems, Jean Paul has been involved as arbitrator and counsel in over 40 international arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA and CEMA, with a particular focus in the mining, electricity and hydrocarbon sectors.
He started his career in 2002 in the disputes group of a full-service firm in Buenos Aires. In 2005 and 2006 he worked in the litigation department of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, in London. Between 2007 and 2017, he worked in the international arbitration group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, spending time in the Paris, Washington D.C. and London offices. He left Freshfields in 2017 to set up Dechamps International Law.
Jean Paul maintains an active academic activity in the field of international arbitration. He is a visiting professor at the Austral University (Buenos Aires) where he teaches a Practical Seminar on International Arbitration. Jean Paul also delivers the Workshop on Examination of Witnesses for the Degree in Law & Bachelor in Global Governance students at ESADE University in Barcelona. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Latin American Journal of International Commercial Law, edited by the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM).