Ilija is a partner in the Paris office. Ilija has experience acting for States, corporate clients, and individuals in arbitrations conducted under the ICSID, UNICTRAL, ICC, LCIA and SCC arbitration rules, among others. He has a multi-disciplinary practice covering investment-treaty, gas-pricing, infrastructure, general commercial, public international law, and annulment & enforcement matters. He has extensive experience with corruption- and fraud-related disputes.
Ilija is a Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, and an ambassador for the Vienna International Arbitral Centre.
Ilija is recommended in The Legal 500 France, and he has featured in the Lexology Index since 2020, including as a Global Elite Thought Leader. The guide hails him as “one of the most outstanding legal minds of his generation”, someone who “knows the cases inside out. Clients and peers note that “Ilija is, without doubt, a future superstar of international arbitration”, and that he is “able to handle the most complex commercial and investment cases with ease”.
Since 2019, Ilija has delivered training on the New York Convention, arbitration, international investment law, and dispute prevention and management to judges and State officials from the six Western Balkan States (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia).
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