Yves Derains
c/o Derains & Gharavi
25, rue Balzac
Paris, France 75008
Founding Partner, Derains & Associés, 1994 – 2008
Founding Partner, Derains-Gélinas & Associés, 1985 – 1994
Partner, Philips & Vineberg Paris, 1982 – 1984
Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC and Director of the Legal Department of the ICC, 1977 – 1981
Secretary of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC and Director of the Legal Department of the ICC, 1973 – 1977
Attaché to the International Court of Arbitration and to the Legal Department of the ICC, 1971 – 1973
Honorary Professor, Law Faculty of the San Ignacio de Loyola University, Lima, Peru
Honorary Professor, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru
Honorary Professor, Universidad de Lima, Lima, Peru
Chairman, ICC Institute of World Business Law
Vice-President, the Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC), 2015 – 2018
Co-Chairman, ICC Working Group on the Reduction of Costs and Time in International Arbitration
Member, Bureau of the Comité Français de l’Arbitrage (CFA)
Honorary Member, Sociedad Cubana de Derecho Económico y Financiero y la Sociedad Cubana de Derecho Mercantil de la Unión Nacional de Juristas de Cuba
President, Arbitration Court of the Jerusalem Arbitration Centre (JAC), created by both Israeli and Palestinian ICC national committees, 2014 – 2016
Chairman, Working Party on the Revision of the ICC Rules of Arbitration, 1995 – 1997
Chairman, Commission on International Commercial Practices of the French National Committee of the ICC, 1983 – 1994
Chairman of the ICC Working Party on Arbitration and Construction Contracts, 1980 – 1982
Former President, French Branch of the Club Español del Arbitraje
Member, French Committee on Private International Law, since 1979
Member, ICCA
Member, Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
Member, ICC Commission on International Arbitration
Member, International Bar Association (IBA)
Member of various Panels of Arbitrators, including: ICC, ICSID, LCIA, AAA, CEPANI, Cairo and Kuala Lumpur Regional Centres for Commercial Arbitration, Indian Council of Arbitration, Arbitral Centre of Vienna, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Shenzen Court of International Arbitration, International Center of Arbitration of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru, Centro de Arbitraje de la Cámara Boliviana de Hidrocarburos y Energía (CEAR-CBHE); Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Chamber of Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration CIESP/FIESP; Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC); CAMARB – Chamber of Business Mediation and Arbitration; Chamber of Mediation and Arbitration of Italcam – CAMITAL.
Member, ICSID Panel of Conciliators and of Arbitrators, designated by the Government of Albania
Yves Derains has more than 40 years’ experience in arbitration, having served as counsel, chairman and co-arbitrator in over 350 commercial and investment arbitrations under the rules of many arbitral institutions, such as the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, DIAC, SCC, LCIA, AAA, Milan Arbitral Chamber, CRCICA, CEPANI, PCA, Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution, European Court of Arbitration, Vienna Arbitral Chamber, and in ad hoc proceedings.