Carole Sportes

International Arbitration

• Representing a foreign state in a pending US$1.4 billion investment arbitration regarding compensation for the expropriation of the claimant's predecessors' company in the 1970s.
• Representing a foreign state in a pending €193 million investment arbitration conducted pursuant to ICC Rules relating to several construction projects interrupted by a civil war.
• Representing a foreign state in an ongoing US$69 million investment arbitration conducted pursuant to ICC Rules relating to a settlement agreement and several construction projects interrupted by a civil war.
• Representing a foreign state in a pending US$52 million investment arbitration conducted pursuant to ICC Rules relating to several construction projects interrupted by a civil war.
• Defending a foreign State National Oil Corporation in a highly sensitive dispute against Marine Services Company relating to the impact of acts of war/insurrection on the performance of a charter party.
• Representing a worldwide food and beverage company in an international commercial arbitration relating to the valuation of the minority shareholders' capital share.

Litigation Before French Courts

• Representing a foreign central bank in a recourse against a French exequatur order of an arbitral award of US$1 billion.
• Representing a foreign central bank in relation to various seizure proceedings on its assets.
• Representing a foreign state in a setting aside proceedings before the Court of appeal of Paris relating to an arbitration award where US$70 million is at issue.
• Representing a foreign state in a setting aside proceedings before the Court of appeal of Paris relating to an arbitration award where US$51 million is at issue.
• Representing a foreign state in relation to an Exequatur judgment of a Serbian judgment ordering the foreign state to pay to the claimant €10 million.
• Representing a major International pharmaceutical company in a massive litigation representing a global risk of €200 million concerning a drug marketed in most of the occidental countries during the 70s.
• Representing one of the most preeminent industrial companies in a large litigation concerning the Lyme syndrome.
• Advising and representing a US manufacturer of diesel engines on an exclusive basis for its French product liability cases.
• Representing a foreign state to protect its ownership right on a governmental A340 aircraft.

Aviation

• Sharm El Sheikh accident of January 2004 – Representing Flash Airlines, its insurers and reinsurers (148 fatalities, 650 claims) before the French courts.
• The Airbus A 320 crash in Perpignan of November 2008 – Representing Air New Zealand in the criminal proceedings.
• Representing worldwide and European airlines in their cargo and passengers’ claims.

Product Liability

• Representing a major international pharmaceutical company in the massive French litigation concerning the drug DES.
• Representing one of the most preeminent industrial companies in a large litigation concerning the Lyme syndrome.
• Advising and representing a US manufacturer of medical devices in multidistrict product liability litigation.

Insurance

• Advising and representing a major international insurer in a large litigation against a European insurer relating to a coverage issue applicable to an entire portfolio.
• Advising and representing a European middle-size insurer in handling the run-off of a property and casualty insurance French portfolio.