Arbitrator services
Impartiality, independence, availability, and technical command
Vanessa Thieffry’s arbitrator practice relies on the qualities expected of any arbitrator: impartiality, independence, and availability. She approaches each appointment without preconception, maintaining equal regard for all parties. She discloses promptly any matter bearing on neutrality and accepts only those appointments she can see through with the highest degree of sustained attention.
Beyond these structuring characteristics, Vanessa Thieffry offers what construction arbitration demands: command of technical and contractual frameworks, including programme analysis, delay methodologies, and multi-party/multi-contract structures. She works comfortably under major, sectoral, or geographic institutional rules, and in ad hoc proceedings.
Effective case management and tailored procedures
Vanessa Thieffry exercises active case management throughout proceedings from initial appointment, ensuring consistency and efficiency at every stage. She structures timetables, document production, and hearings with close attention as she knows how procedural choices shape the arbitration’s trajectory and cost.
She engages continuously with the technical, factual and legal record. She adapts procedures where the dispute warrants. Throughout, she maintains proportionality between the stakes and the resources devoted to resolution.
Selected experience
ICC Arbitration | Sole Arbitrator | Construction
Dispute arising out of a consortium agreement between Greek and Italian parties for a construction project in Turkey. Language: English. Applicable law: Italian law. Seat: Paris, France.
ICC Arbitration | Sole Arbitrator | Construction | Industrial
Dispute arising out of a contract for the construction of a food-processing train between Italian and Swiss parties. Language: English. Applicable law: Italian law / CISG. Seat: Lugano, Switzerland.
ICC Arbitration | Secretary | Energy | Infrastructure
Dispute arising out of an EPC contract for the construction of energy infrastructures between an Italian party and a North African State entity. Language: French. Applicable law: law of the North African State. Seat: Geneva, Switzerland.
ICC Arbitration | Secretary | Engineering | Construction | Mining
Dispute arising out of a contract for the engineering, construction and exploitation of a mine involving Senegalese, Swiss, British, Luxembourgian, and Dutch parties. Language: French. Applicable law: Senegalese law. Seat: Paris, France.
ICC Arbitration | Secretary | Energy | Infrastructure
Dispute arising out of a contract for the engineering and construction of a dam between Italian and Algerian parties. Language: French. Applicable law: French law. Seat: Geneva, Switzerland.
ICC Arbitration | Secretary | Construction
Dispute arising out of a construction contract between a German-Algerian joint venture and a State entity. Language: French. Applicable law: Algerian law. Seat: Paris, France.
EDF Arbitration | Secretary | Infrastructure
Dispute arising out of a contract for the rehabilitation of a road between Portuguese and Senegalese parties. Language: French. Applicable law: Senegalese law. Seat: Dakar, Senegal.
ICC Arbitration | Secretary | Construction
Dispute arising out of a FIDIC construction contract (Red Book) for an urban development project between Lebanese and Qatari parties. Language: English. Applicable law: Qatari law. Seat: Doha, Qatar.
ICC Arbitration | Secretary | Infrastructure
Dispute arising out of a construction contract for a highway between Algerian, Spanish, and Portuguese parties. Language: French. Applicable law: Algerian law. Seat: Algiers, Algeria.
ICC Arbitration | Secretary | Dermo-cosmetics | Domestic arbitration
Dispute arising out of a contract for the development of dermo-cosmetic products between French parties. Language: French. Applicable law: French law. Seat: Paris, France.
ICC Arbitration | Secretary | Construction
Dispute arising out of a FIDIC construction contract in Kigali, Rwanda. Language: English. Applicable law: Rwandan law.
ICC Arbitration | Secretary | Construction
Dispute arising out of a construction contract between British and Italian parties. Language: English. Applicable law: Italian law. Seat: London, United Kingdom.
ICC Arbitration | Secretary | Franchise
Dispute arising out of a master franchise agreement for translation services between French and Luxembourgian parties. Language: English. Applicable law: French law. Seat: Paris, France.
CEA Arbitration | Secretary | Distribution | Domestic arbitration
Dispute arising out of a partnership agreement in the context of wine and other spirituals distribution. Language: French. Applicable law: French law. Seat: Strasbourg, France.
CRCICA Arbitration | Secretary | Procedural
Following an arbitrator's death, assisted with the closing of three suspended procedures.