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Canelle Goldstein

Legal Director, Commercial Disputes
London

Expertise

Canelle is a Legal Director in Addleshaw Goddard's Commercial Disputes team based in London. She has experience of a range of international and cross border disputes, including both complex litigation and commercial and investment treaty arbitration.

Canelle works for a broad range of clients (including private companies, public organisations and high-net-worth individuals), mainly in the energy, oil & gas and transports & logistics sectors. She has particular expertise in disputes concerning joint ventures and issues of director and/or shareholder misconduct.

Canelle is qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales and an avocat at the Paris Bar. She is a native French speaker and speaks both Italian and Spanish to a high level. She was featured in the Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist (France) for 2023.

Canelle completed a year-long secondment in the commercial disputes team in Addleshaw Goddard's Hong Kong office in 2017-18.

Experience

Commercial & Investment Treaty Arbitration

Representing an African state national oil company in French Commercial Court and then ICC proceedings brought by an Indonesian listed energy corporate in respect of a failed joint venture relating to an oil field, and attendant counterclaim, worth c. $1 bn
Successfully defending the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in an arbitration brought by a Saudi investor under the OIC Investment Agreement, relating to gas tariffs applicable to a steel production facility and with an approximate value of USD 420m
Acting in several English Court disputes concerning issues of director and/or shareholder misconduct, including successfully defending parallel unfair prejudice claims brought against Waterland Private Equity Investments BV in Durose v Tagco BV [2022] EWHC 3000 (Ch)
Acting for a company owned by a UK Government Department in an expedited LCIA arbitration in relation to a £2bn wind farm project
Advising a West African IT company in an LCIA claim for breach of contract against a West African central Bank, in relation to a complex technology project. The claim has an approximate value of USD 500m
Representing a Ghanaian downstream oil and gas company against multinational lending institutions, in relation to a failure to provide financing towards the construction of a petroleum storage facility
Boosom Boonyanit v Malaysia: assisting in a claim against Malaysia under the 1987 ASEAN Agreement in relation to judicial conduct as regards a real estate investment fraud
Working alongside French co-counsel in an LCIA arbitration for a North African logistics client, considering a French language contract governed by English law.

Publications

"Third Party Funding in Africa", Addleshaw Goddard Africa newsletter (June 2018)
"English Commercial Court considers the principles relating to setting aside permission to enforce an arbitral award", Addleshaw Goddard International Arbitration Quarterly Review (September 2017)
"Angola and the New York Convention", Addleshaw Goddard Africa newsletter (October 2016)

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