Nadia Darwazeh

Nadia Darwazeh is a Partner and Head of Arbitration of Clyde & Co's Paris office. She has extensive experience acting as counsel in commercial and investor-state arbitrations. She also regularly sits as arbitrator. Before joining Clyde & Co, Nadia practiced for two decades in the International Arbitration Groups of leading international law firms, based in Paris, Shanghai, Frankfurt and London. She also spent three years at the ICC where she led as Counsel the Europe, Middle East and Africa team overseeing more than 400 arbitrations. Nadia is dual-qualified in England & Wales (Solicitor-Advocate) and Germany (Rechtsanwältin). She conducts arbitrations in French, German and English and speaks Dutch and Mandarin Chinese. Clients have described Nadia as “a superstar” (Who’s Who Legal), “innovative, pragmatic and a true leader”, “a real strategist” and “a very strong cross-examiner” (Chambers & Partners) and she was also awarded the prestigious ASA Prize for Advocacy in International Commercial Arbitration in 2022.