Gabriele Ruscalla

Area of specialisation

• Arbitration Agency (Representation) Construction, Engineering Corporate Law / M&A Distribution, Franchising Energy and Natural Resources Investment / Public International Law Sales, Purchases

Bar admission

• France

Experience with legal system

• United Arab Emirates
• Belgium
• Switzerland
• Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
• Algeria
• France
• Italy
• Qatar

Professional experience

Gabriele Ruscalla is a Partner at Le 16 Law, a Paris-based law firm dedicated to dispute resolution.

Gabriele has 15 years of experience representing corporations, States, and state entities in international commercial and investment arbitrations across the construction, energy, mining, and corporate sectors. He has acted under all major arbitration rules, including ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SIAC, UNCITRAL, and CCJA.

Much of Gabriele’s practice focuses on arbitrations involving highly complex technical issues and a wide range of legal systems, from French and Swiss law to the laws of Algeria, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, the DRC, Chile, and Singapore.

Before national courts, he represents his clients in arbitration-related litigation.

He also serves as arbitrator under several arbitration rules, including those of the ICC, the Milan Arbitration Chamber and the Swiss Arbitration Centre.

Gabriele is admitted to the Paris Bar and practices in English, French and Italian.