Maxi Scherer is Co-Founder of ArbBoutique. Maxi has 25 years of experience in international arbitration in both civil and common law systems. She is admitted to the bar in Paris (France) and as a solicitor in England and Wales. Maxi has represented clients and served as arbitrator or legal expert in more than 150 commercial and investor-State arbitrations. Her arbitrations regularly involve States, concern multi-billion amounts in dispute and are conducted in English, French and German.
Regularly ranked by Lexology, The Legal 500 etc. as a leading arbitration practitioner, she has been identified amongst the top 20 “Global Elite Thought Leaders” and described by peers as “one of the greatest and most complete arbitrators,” “outstanding - personable, intelligent and fair" and “one of the very best in both commercial and investment arbitration proceedings”. She has received the 2023 GAR Award for “Best Prepared Arbitrator”.
Maxi is the President of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Co-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Guidelines and Rules Subcommittee and holds many other public appointments and commissions of trust, including being a member of the panel of arbitrators (ICSID) and the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA).
Maxi is a tenured Professor of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, where s...
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"Maxi has deep knowledge of the law and of the rules of arbitration"
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