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Ifriqya Online Directory
An added value Directory of North African International Arbitrators & ADR practioners verified and qualified by IAF.
Brahim Mouelhi
Arbitrator, Mediator & Independent Consultant
Nationality: Tunisian/French
Brahim Mouelhi is a Senior Lawyer, acting as arbitrator, mediator, and consultant specializing in major and cross-border infrastructure projects, His over 30 years’ experience included complex scheme transactions worldwide (Concessions, PPP, PSC, and EPC agreements) using various complex models, (BOT, FIDIC, NEC, CCAG forms), throughout the whole process, from procurement, legal negotiation, setting up partnership and joint venture under various jurisdictions, project financing, as well as conducting related dispute settlement proceedings, including amicable, litigation, arbitration, DRB and mediation.
- Head of Legal on the Channel Tunnel Project
- Deputy Head of Legal of Bouygues Civil Works
- International Legal Director at SAUR
- Legal Director Europe Division at COLAS
- Head of Legal and Compliance of SCDM
Energy Ltd. - Among the major deals in which he was involved: Construction of a 137 Kms Railroad (Algeria); Channel Tunnel Project (France-UK); Numerous Motorway Concessions, PPP, and Turnkey road projects in Central and North Europe; Water and Electricity Concessions in Africa, Europe and Latin and North America; Offshore Oil & Gas field Production Sharing, drilling and construction agreements.
- He represented and/ or conducted on behalf of his Employers, the process of dispute resolution through various mechanisms, such as Mediation (Algeria, Ivory Coast), Amicable Negotiations (Mali, Slovakia, Italy), Dispute Board (Channel Tunnel Project), Investment Arbitration (Saur International vs. Argentina).
- 2022: Assigned as Chair of an Arbitral Tribunal, under the Rules of the FNTP
- 1978: Master’s Degree in Private Law, Faculté de Droit et de Sciences Politiques (Tunis, Tunisia)
- 1979: Master’s Degree in Finance & Fiscal Law, University Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France)
- 1980: Master’s Degree in Public Law, University Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France)
- 2012 : Training on O&G Contracts, Institut Français du Pétrole et Energies
Renouvelables (Paris, France) - 2018: Training in Commercial Mediation (CIArb London) (London, United Kingdom)
- 2018: Training in Investor-State
Mediation (ICSID – World Bank) (Paris, France) - 2020: Update on FIDIC Rainbow suite of Contracts (EPC Version 2017)
- 2021: Certificate of Arbitration Law & Practice – Versailles St Quentin University (Versailles, France)
- Regular attendance of the ICC Institute trainings on international arbitration, as well as DRBF Dispute Boards.
The model Dispute Resolution Agreement of the AIEN, translation from English to French; AIEN Website, 2018.
À la recherche d’un renouveau de la médiation dans les différends Investisseur/Etat ; Journal du Management Juridique, janvier 2019.
Presentation of the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements resulting from Mediation, (Panel on the Singapore Convention at Mediation Symposium of the CILS, Salzburg – Austria May 2023; Using Dispute Boards in Major Construction Projects (Training re. Dispute Boards, ICC Institute of World Business Law, Nairobi May 2024).
- Member of the ICC Institute of International Business Law
- Member of CIArb (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Europe Branch)
- Mediators’ Group of the Centre of International Legal Studies CILS (Salzburg, Austria)
- Member of Ifriqya Arbitration Forum, Tunisia
- Member of DRBF (Dispute Resolution Board Foundation)
- Member of Association Tunisienne de Médiation
- Member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN)
- Member of the Association of Independent Construction Experts AECI
- Arabic (native)
- French (fluent)
- English (proficient)
- Italian (basic)
- Spanish (basic)
