Flore Poloni

Biography

Flore specialises in international commercial arbitration. She has significant experience representing international companies in mediation and arbitration proceedings.

Flore has a particular focus on disputes relating to the defense, chemicals and automotive industries.

Prior to joining Signature Litigation, Flore was Counsel in August Debouzy’s litigation, arbitration and white-collar crime practice group in Paris.

She regularly acts in shareholder disputes and in transactions that span multiple jurisdictions. She also has in-depth experience in the enforcement of arbitral awards in France including asset seizures.

Flore has acted as counsel in numerous arbitration proceedings, both ad hoc and under various institutional rules, and has represented parties in enforcement proceedings before the French courts.

More recently, she has advised several companies in the context of the termination of wide-scale IT projects.

Flore is very involved in the arbitration community in France; she co-founded Paris Very Young Arbitration Practitioners in 2012. She is presently one of the co-chairs of the LCIA-YIAG (Young International Arbitration Group of the London Court of International Arbitration).

She has also had various teaching engagements at the Paris Bar School and at Paris Universities and schools (Paris X, Paris XII and ESCP Europe).

Flore regularly speaks at Arbitration conferences such as the recent “Professional secrecy v legal privilege”, Young symposium, IBA Arbitration Day in Montreal and the AIJA arbitration annual conference in Zurich.

Ranked in the Who’s Who Legal Arbitration Guide, Flore is described as “the most dynamic young arbitration practitioner in Paris”, “a very dynamic and multi-skilled lawyer” and praised for her “excellent communication skills and perfect knowledge of arbitration”. She has been further praised as “definitely a future leader”, and she is recognised as “a go-to person for arbitration in France”. She was also described in the 2018 Guide as “a very highly qualified and skilled lawyer” who provides sophisticated advice on complex disputes.

The Legal 500 EMEA 2021 Guide ranks Flore as a ‘Recommended Lawyer’ for dispute resolution and has been recognised as a ‘Rising Star’ lawyer for International Arbitration. Flore has been praised for her “extensive expertise in international arbitration” and described as “extremely capable”.

A French national, Flore works in French and English. Flore regularly commentates in the media on pertinent arbitration issues and publishes articles on a variety of topics. A link to Flore’s international arbitration blog can be found here.