FIDIC Adjudicator Details
International Client Manager
Yann Schneller
Country of residence: France
Citizenship: French
www.cartiermeyniel.com
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Countries with experience
Other countries with experience:
Global regions
- North America
- East Asia
- South Asia
- East Europe
- West Europe
- Middle East
- Central Asia
- North Africa
- Sub Sahara Africa
- Caribbean
Languages spoken
- English
- French
Construction contract experience
- Construction Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Red Book)
- Plant & Design-Build Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Yellow Book)
Consultancy contract experience
- Not applicable - none of the above
Specialist contract experience
- Not applicable - none of the above
Other contract experience
- Frequently assists the legal
- project and delivery teams in the avoidance and the resolution of disputes relating to the performance of FIDIC Contracts (see CV).
CV - Services offered
- Arbitration
- Adjudication
- Mediation
- Conciliation
- Facilitator
- Contract Expert/specialist
Technical expertise
- Building - commercial
- Building - industrial
- Civil Engineering - other
- Construction law
- Energy & Power - Solar Systems
- Energy & Power - Natural gas and LNG Facilities
- Infrastructure, Railways, Bridges
- Road and highways - Planning, Layout and Design
- Rail - Signalling and Communications
- Waste Disposal - Solid Waste Management
- Waste Disposal - other
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Claims and variations
- Extension of time
Short summary experiences
Yann Schneller is a dispute resolution lawyer trained in both civil and common law. He is a French qualified lawyer, and he is pursuing a Construction Law and Dispute Resolution MSc at King’s College London. His dual background allows him to understand and navigate the different approaches across common law and civil law jurisdictions within which the FIDIC Contracts operate._x000D_
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Having been involved in more than 25 international arbitration proceedings, Yann has a significant experience of dispute resolution. He has been acting under the arbitration rules of major international arbitral institutions, including the ICC, ICSID, CCJA-OHADA and CCAT, in ad hoc arbitrations governed by the arbitration rules of the UNCITRAL, the European Development Fund and the Franco-German Chamber of Commerce, as well as in purely ad hoc arbitration proceedings. Yann often acts as counsel in litigation proceedings before the French Courts in construction, commercial, post-acquisition and shareholders’ disputes, expert proceedings, enforcement and annulment of arbitral awards, as well as recognition and enforcement of foreign judgements in France._x000D_
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Yann is regularly appointed as arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings. He is one of the few arbitrators to have already conducted several international arbitrations proceedings governed by the recently-enacted Expedited Procedure Provisions of the ICC Arbitration Rules. He approaches his role as arbitrator with a client mindset, aiming to resolve disputes effectively and pragmatically._x000D_
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A FIDIC certified adjudicator, Yann has extensive experience of the FIDIC Contracts. He has been involved in the early settlement of disputes through negotiations and collaborative claim resolution processes in more than a dozen disputes where the FIDIC Contracts applied. In most cases, the FIDIC Contracts were amended, some of them being significantly amended from the original forms. Yann has also attended
Position and experience
Acredited mediator:
No
Acredited arbitrator: No
Employment status:
Present position:
Previous positions: Lawyer at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Acredited arbitrator: No
Employment status:
Present position:
Previous positions: Lawyer at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Experience
- Counsel in more than 25 international arbitration proceedings.
- Counsel in numerous litigation proceedings before the French Courts.
- Arbitrator regularly appointed in international arbitration proceedings.
- Frequently assists the legal
- project and delivery teams in the avoidance and the resolution of construction disputes.
Affiliations/Memberships
- Society of Construction Law
- Dispute Resolution Board Foundation
- ICC France (French National Committee of the ICC)
- Comité Français de l’arbitrage (French Arbitration Committee)
Panel listings
- ICC France (French National Committee of the ICC)
- Centre de Médiation et d’Arbitrage de Paris (French Mediation and Arbitration Center)
- Cour Commune de Justice et d’Arbitrage de l’OHADA
Qualifications, jurisdiction and discipline
- Lawyer
- admitted to practice in Paris.
