Astrid Westphalen is Counsel in Gide's International Arbitration team in Paris. She specialises in international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.

Astrid advises and represents companies, state entities and governments in international, institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, as well as before the French courts in arbitration-related disputes. She has acted in over 25 commercial and investment arbitrations relating to infrastructure and construction projects, investment protection and contractual disputes in a wide variety of sectors, including energy and natural resources, cement, insurance and reinsurance, defence and public service concessions.

Astrid is currently representing a reinsurer in a dispute relating to the performance of reinsurance treaties and a North African industrial group in a dispute relating to the construction of a cement plant. She recently acted for two public entities in North Africa in shareholder disputes. Astrid is Vice-President of Paris Arbitration Week.

Member of the Paris Bar since 2013 and a Solicitor at the Bar of England and Wales since 2017, Astrid is a graduate of the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (Master II in International Trade Law) and of King's College London (Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in English and French Law).