Maxi Scherer

Practice Areas

Professor Maxi Scherer is a special counsel in the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the International Arbitration Practice Group.

Career

Professor Scherer has represented and advised clients in numerous international arbitrations before most major arbitral institutions (including DIS, HKIAC, ICC, ICDR, ICSID, LCIA, VIAC, SCC and SIAC) and at various seats, governed by a variety of substantive and procedural laws (including Algerian, Austrian, Belgian, Congolese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hong Kong, Kazakh, Luxembourg, Nigerian, Polish, Turkish, Swedish and Swiss law).

She has served as arbitrator in numerous ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, including with States and State-owned parties, with significant amounts in dispute (often over 50 million and up to over 1.3 billion USD) and multiple parties conducted in English, French and German.

Publications

"International Arbitration in the Energy Sector" (2018, Oxford University Press, 2018)

"Inherent Powers to Sanction Party Conduct", in: F. Ferrari (ed.), Inherent Powers, Juris Publishing, 2018, pp. 105-132

Personal

PhD, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2001, with Merits

DEA, Post-Graduate Diploma in International Private and Commercial Law, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1999, Top of Class

Maîtrise, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1998, with highest Merits

LLM, Universities of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne and Cologne, 1998, with highest Merits