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International Arbitration Specialist Pacôme Ziegler joins PLMJ Arbotration team
09/06/2014
Pacôme Ziegler is the newest member of PLMJ Arbitration, the team coordinated by PLMJ founding partner, José Miguel Júdice. The team already has around 20 lawyers, including 8 partners, who have broad experience and arbitrators and arbitration lawyers in both Portugal and internationally.
Pacôme Ziegler is a French lawyer who is also fluent in English and Spanish and has worked in the area of arbitration in some of the world’s leading law firms including Clifford Chance, M & M Bomchil, Baker & McKenzie, Dewey Leboeuf, Lovells and Dechert.
For José Miguel Júdice “Pacôme Ziegler’s diverse international experience will be a great advantage for PLMJ Arbitration. He also strengthens our French, English and Spanish-speaking teams at a time when we have been seeing more and more arbitrations in these languages. As soon as he arrived, Pacôme became a very important member of the team working on an English language arbitration case with a value of around USD 400 million, in which we presented the defence only a few days ago. Our team already includes lawyers of four different nationalities besides Portuguese and we will continue to try to attract talent from other countries. PLMJ Arbitration will increasingly be an international practice on various continents for both Portuguese and international clients”.
PLMJ’s new arbitration specialist is an “Avocat à la Cour” in Paris and has studied at some of Europe’s most prestigious universities including the Sorbonne in Paris and Queen Mary University in London, which is seen as the leading European arbitration school and is where another PLMJ Arbitration lawyer, Rute Alves, recently completed her LLM. Pacôme Ziegler has also been a lecturer at a number of seminars on monetary policy at the University of Paris 12 (Créteil).
PLMJ Arbitration recently receive international recognition when, in a first for Portugal, it appeared in the ranking of the 100 best law firms in the world for arbitration published by Global Arbitration Review (GAR).
PLMJ Arbitration is able to represent clients in arbitrations in five languages (Portuguese, English, French, German and Spanish) and has worked not only in Portugal, but also in a range of other markets including the African Portuguese-speaking countries, French-speaking African countries and other English, French and Spanish language countries, on occasions in cases that have no connection with Portugal. PLMJ Arbitration’s track record already features more than 150 domestic and international arbitrations. José Miguel Júdice’s name has been associated with important arbitration cases heard under the rules of the ICC, the NAI, the Madrid Chamber, UNCITRAL, ICSID and the Oporto and Lisbon Arbitration Centres. He was the first Portuguese lawyer to deal with a case before an ICSID tribunal, and he has also acted as president of arbitral tribunals based in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Zurich, London, Paris, Luanda, Madrid, Oporto and Lisbon in cases in which the language was French, English, Spanish or Portuguese.
Pacôme Ziegler is a French lawyer who is also fluent in English and Spanish and has worked in the area of arbitration in some of the world’s leading law firms including Clifford Chance, M & M Bomchil, Baker & McKenzie, Dewey Leboeuf, Lovells and Dechert.
For José Miguel Júdice “Pacôme Ziegler’s diverse international experience will be a great advantage for PLMJ Arbitration. He also strengthens our French, English and Spanish-speaking teams at a time when we have been seeing more and more arbitrations in these languages. As soon as he arrived, Pacôme became a very important member of the team working on an English language arbitration case with a value of around USD 400 million, in which we presented the defence only a few days ago. Our team already includes lawyers of four different nationalities besides Portuguese and we will continue to try to attract talent from other countries. PLMJ Arbitration will increasingly be an international practice on various continents for both Portuguese and international clients”.
PLMJ’s new arbitration specialist is an “Avocat à la Cour” in Paris and has studied at some of Europe’s most prestigious universities including the Sorbonne in Paris and Queen Mary University in London, which is seen as the leading European arbitration school and is where another PLMJ Arbitration lawyer, Rute Alves, recently completed her LLM. Pacôme Ziegler has also been a lecturer at a number of seminars on monetary policy at the University of Paris 12 (Créteil).
PLMJ Arbitration recently receive international recognition when, in a first for Portugal, it appeared in the ranking of the 100 best law firms in the world for arbitration published by Global Arbitration Review (GAR).
PLMJ Arbitration is able to represent clients in arbitrations in five languages (Portuguese, English, French, German and Spanish) and has worked not only in Portugal, but also in a range of other markets including the African Portuguese-speaking countries, French-speaking African countries and other English, French and Spanish language countries, on occasions in cases that have no connection with Portugal. PLMJ Arbitration’s track record already features more than 150 domestic and international arbitrations. José Miguel Júdice’s name has been associated with important arbitration cases heard under the rules of the ICC, the NAI, the Madrid Chamber, UNCITRAL, ICSID and the Oporto and Lisbon Arbitration Centres. He was the first Portuguese lawyer to deal with a case before an ICSID tribunal, and he has also acted as president of arbitral tribunals based in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Zurich, London, Paris, Luanda, Madrid, Oporto and Lisbon in cases in which the language was French, English, Spanish or Portuguese.
