Elena Mitu

Elena Mitu is an associate at Vanguard International Dispute Resolution, who specializes in international arbitration. She represented and advised international companies, State entities and States in commercial and investment treaty disputes across a variety of industries including construction & engineering, energy, insurance, oil and gas, and crypto currency. She has experience in arbitrations conducted under the ICC, ICSID, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules. Elena also has experience serving as arbitral secretary in commercial arbitrations.

Prior to joining Vanguard International Dispute Resolution, Elena worked as an associate and intern at an international arbitration law firm in Paris. Before that, she was a legal intern at the Paris offices of two international law firms, as well as at a New York-based law firm.

Elena is admitted to the Paris and New York Bar. She obtained an LL.M. in Dispute Resolution and Advocacy from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.

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Illustrative experience as counsel

• Representing an Eastern European State in an ICSIDarbitration initiated by a Cypriot investor in relation to its investment inthe renewable energy sector (solar) (ICSID Case No. ARB/22/13).
• Representing an Eastern European State in an ICSIDarbitration initiated by a Cypriot investor in relation to its investment inthe renewable energy sector (wind) (ICSID Case No. ARB/20/15).
• Representing an Eastern European State in an ICSIDarbitration initiated by a Dutch investor in relation to the allegedexpropriation of its investments in the insurance and media sectors (ICSID CaseNo. ARB/16/19).
• Representing a UAE energy company in an ad hoc arbitration initiated against an African State under the OIC Investment Agreement in relation to investments in an African national oil refinery (PCA Case No. 2020-09).

_{° These counsel cases were handled as a mandate of a previous firm.}

Illustrative experience as arbitral secretary

• ICC arbitration between a French technology supplier in the food-processing industry and a Serbian sugar manufacturer arising out of the sale and purchase of ion exchange and chromatography equipment.
• ICC arbitration between an instrumentality of an Eastern European State and a construction company about a road construction project.

• Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (New York) | LL.M. Dispute Resolution and Advocacy | 2016
• Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne | LL.M. International Business Law | 2015
• University of Kent (Canterbury) | LL.B. in English and French Law | 2013
• Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne | Licence de droit français | 2013