Isabelle Michou’s practice focuses on international arbitration and international law. She acts for both corporations and States in a range of industries, including in the energy sector, mining, aerospace, telecoms, large-scale infrastructure projects and hospitality. She has appeared before numerous arbitral tribunals, under the auspices of the major institutional rules including ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC, as well as ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules.
She was selected as a 2019 Law360 MVP in the category of International Arbitration and won the Global Arbitration Review’s Award of the “2018 Most Important Decision” for her victory in the ICSID arbitration in Up and CD Holding Internationale v. Hungary.
Isabelle also appears in arbitration-related proceedings before the French courts, in cases involving issues of sovereign immunities, interim relief, enforcement and challenges of awards. She also sits regularly as an arbitrator under the ICC, SCC, LCIA, CAS, the Swiss Rules and the PCA’s Optional Rules for Arbitration of Disputes Relating to Natural Resources and/or the Environment.
She is French and Canadian, and is admitted as a Paris Avocat and a Solicitor in England & Wales. She is teaching on Advocacy in International Arbitration at the Law School of Sciences Po in Paris. She is sitting on the Executive Committee of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and is a Board Member of the Swedish Arbitration Association (SAA), the Finnish Arbitration Institute (FAI) and the Comité Français d’Arbitrage (CFA).
