Saadia Bhatty
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London
125 Old Broad Street London EC2N
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London EC2N
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Saadia Bhatty is a Partner in Gide's Arbitration team in London. She specialises in international arbitration.
Saadia has nearly 15 years' experience (including in Paris and New York) advising private and state entities in cross-border disputes, in particular in international arbitration proceedings (commercial and investment), governed by the rules of various institutions (including ICC, ICSID, LCIA, PCA, SCC, HKIAC, VIAC, CAS and OHADA rules), as well as in ad hoc arbitrations (UNCITRAL), subject to the laws of both civil and common law jurisdictions, particularly in the energy, oil and gas, and construction sectors, notably in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Saadia also advises governments on the drafting/reform of their investment treaties and national legislation.
Saadia sits as an arbitrator on several arbitration panels: the Energy Disputes Arbitration Center (EDAC), the Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), the Organisation pour l'harmonisation en Afrique du droit des affaires (OHADA) and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). She is also a member of ICC UK's International Arbitration Committee.
Saadia is a graduate of Harvard, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 2010 and to the Paris Bar in 2018.