Paris Court of Appeal, Pole 1 – 1st Chamber, 18 November 2010, Republic of Equitorial Guinee v SA. Commercial Bank Guinea Ecuatorial - French International Arbitration Law Reports: 2010

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Thomas Clay

Philippe Pinsolle

Thomas Voisin

Suhaib Al-Ali

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18 pages

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February, 2016

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About the Editors

Thomas Clay is Professor in International Arbitration Law in Versailles

University, Director of its LLM in International Arbitration in

collaboration with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the only

French-language program in international arbitration. He's also Vice-

President of the University, managing partner of Clay Arbitration Law

Firm, and former Dean of the Law School. Member of the French

Arbitration Committee and of the International Arbitration Institute and

other institutions, Professor Clay is the author of various books and articles

on arbitration, including "The Arbitrator", a treatise on the duties and

obligations of arbitrators, and "Code de" arbitrage commenté”, a

restatement of the French law. He writes a regular column, Arbitration

Law, in the weekly legal journal Dalloz. He also participates in numerous

conferences throughout the world on international arbitration and has an

extensive practice in arbitration, as arbitrator or counsel, in French,

Spanish, English and Italian, collaborating with the ICC, other French

institutions, the Milan Arbitration Court, and in Africa and South America.

Professor Clay is also a member of the Jurisdiction of Professional Soccer

League and Arbitrator in the French Sport Arbitration Chamber. He was

appointed by France to serve as co-arbitrator in the first ICSID Arbitration

against that country.

Philippe Pinsolle is the Managing Partner of the Paris Office at Quinn

Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and specializes in international arbitration.

He has been involved, as counsel or arbitrator, in more than two hundred

and fifty international arbitrations, both institutional (ICC, ICSID, LCIA,

SCC, AFA, Swiss Rules, etc.) and ad hoc, concerning such activities as

investment, oil and gas, energy, telecom or the defense industry. Mr.

Pinsolle is a member of the Paris Bar and of the Bar of England & Wales

(Gray's Inn). He is a lecturer on international arbitration at the Universities

of Aix-Marseille III, Versailles-St Quentin and Paris 12. Mr. Pinsolle is the

former President of the International Arbitration commission of the Union

Internationale des Avocats (UIA) and a cofounder of the Young

Arbitration Practitioners (YAP). He is the author of numerous articles and

case-notes on international arbitration and holds a J.D. degree from the

University Pantheon-Assas (Paris II), a M.Jur. from Oxford University,

Hertford College, and an MBA degree from Essec.

Thomas Voisin is a Partner in the Paris office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart

& Sullivan. He has represented clients in a number of international

arbitrations, both ad hoc (including under the UNCITRAL Rules) and

under the rules of major arbitration centers (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC,

AFA, etc.), with particular focus on investment, energy, and commercial

disputes. His experience includes international arbitrations in the oil &

gas, power, transportation, mining, aviation and chemical sectors. He

graduated from the University Pantheon-Assas (Paris II) and holds an

M.Jur. from Oxford University.

Suhaib Al-Ali is an Associate in the Paris office of Quinn Emanuel

Urquhart & Sullivan. He has intervened on behalf of both States and

Investors before ICSID and ad hoc tribunals, as well as commercial

Claimants and Respondents before the ICC, LCIA, ECA, and the Franco-

German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has degrees from

King's College London, Paris-I Pantheon-Sorbonne, and the University of

Chicago. He is a member of the New York Bar.

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ORIGINAL

LA REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE EQUATORIALE
S.A COMMERCIAL BANK GUINEA ECUATORIAL

Contentieux Judiciaire

Grosses délivrées REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE

aux parties le : AU NOM DU PEUPLE FRANCAIS

COUR D'APPEL DE PARIS Pôle 1 - Chambre 1

ARRET DU 18 NOVEMBRE 2010

(n° , 8 pages)

Numéro d'inscription au répertoire général : 09/20069

Décision déférée à la Cour : Appel d'une ordonnance relative à l'exequatur rendue par

le délégué du président du tribunal de grande instance de Paris le 15 juillet
2009 d'une sentence arbitrale de la Cour Commune de Justice et d'Arbitrage de l'Ohada rendue le
24/05/2009 à Libreville

APPELANTE

LA REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE EQUATORIALE

TRANSLATION

REPUBLIC OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA
S.A COMMERCIAL BANK GUINEA ECUATORIAL

Judicial Proceedings

Execution copies issued by the REPUBLIC OF FRANCE
ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE PARIS COURT OF APPEAL

1st Pole, 1st Chamber

DECISION OF 18 NOVEMBER 2010

(n°, 8 pages)

Registration number in the general directory: 09/20069

Decision under appeal: Appeal of an order of enforcement rendered by
the delegate of the president of the Paris tribunal de grande instance of 15 July
2009 of an arbitral award of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of Ohada
rendered on 24 May 2009 in Libreville

APPELLANT

REPUBLIC OF EQUITORIAL GUINEE