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Claude L. Bessard

Address: 

49, rue Paul Déroulède
78290 Croissy-sur-Seine
France

Phone Number: 
(33-1) 39.76.57.55
Fax Number: 
(33-1) 30.15.09.01
Born: 
1929, Pierrefitte
Languages: 
French English German
Nationalities: 
French
Education: 
B.A. Paris University (Mathematics, 1947, Philosophy, 1949); L.L.B., Law School of Paris University, 1953; M.B.A., Ecole de Hautes Etudes Commerciales “H.E.C.” Paris (France), 1953; French Navy Supply corps Officer School, 1955
Present Position: 
International & domestic commercial arbitration; Court Expert (commercial distribution, market research, franchising, problems of competition); Mediation
Professional Experience: 

Tribunal of Commerce of Paris (Lower Court for commercial matters, entirely composed of elected judges), 12 years from 1978- 1989, out of which 7 as judge and 5 as president of Chamber; 23 years (1956-1979) in chemical and plastic industry (mostly in international operations); 10 years in food industries, especially sugar industry (1980-1990)

Professional Associations: 

ICC; AAA.; AFA; ASA; LCIA; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (ACIArb); Association of Experts in Commercial and Technical Matters to the Court of Appeals of Paris; Expertise and Arbitration Institute, Paris; AMAM (Association of Judges and Former Judges of Tribunal of
Commerce of Paris); General Association of French Commercial Judges

Panels of Arbitrators: 

ICC; A.A.A., panel of international arbitrators; LCIA; AFA; Paris Chamber of Arbitration; European Court of Arbitration; International Arbitration Center of the Austrian Federal Chamber, in Vienna; Court of Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce, Warsaw (Poland)

Arbitration Experience: 

ICC: 12 cases to date, either upon appointment by the ICC Court of International Arbitration, or as sole arbitrator; AAA: 2 cases to date; Ad hoc arbitration, 11 cases to date; Paris Chamber of Arbitration, 14 cases to date

Areas of Specialization: 
Contracts
Joint Ventures
Commercial Law
Maritime Law
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