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Biography

Sabrina Aïnouz acts as counsel for States, state-owned entities and private sector companies in investor-State and commercial arbitrations in a variety of fields, including oil & gas, mining, construction, telecommunications, agriculture and post-M&A disputes. She has represented clients in arbitrations under all major arbitration rules, including ICC, ICSID, SCC and UNCITRAL rules, and acts as counsel in enforcement proceedings and in proceedings for the annulment of international awards before French courts. She also sits as arbitrator in ICC, ICSID, OHADA and ad hoc arbitrations. Sabrina is Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR since July 2024 and Ambassador of the ICC Africa Commission since 2021. She acted as a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration representing Algeria between 2018 and 2024. Sabrina is recommended in Lexology Index: Arbitration (formerly Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration) since 2021. Her clients describe her as a “real fighter with expertise in investment arbitration, hardworking professional,” with a “professorial specialist knowledge of public international law,” an “unbeatable intellect,” and a “phenomenal capacity for work,” “definitely a star in the field (including treaty arbitration).”