Francesca Annicchiarico
Biography
Overview
Francesca is an English law-qualified associate in the International Arbitration group in London. With White & Case since 2019, she also spent over three years practising as an associate in the International Arbitration group in Paris.
Francesca specialises in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration. She has represented clients as counsel in arbitrations conducted under most major procedural rules and on an ad hoc basis, governed by various substantive laws and seated in a range of jurisdictions. She has experience of arbitrations relating to a variety of sectors and has also advised on enforcement and set-aside proceedings before national courts.
Francesca has been admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and in Ireland.
Experience
- Representing a leading European buyer of gas in an ad hoc arbitration relating to supply disruptions under a long-term contract following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022;
- Representing an investor in the fuel distribution industry in an UNCITRAL arbitration against a Caribbean State under a bilateral investment treaty;
- Representing Iraq Telecom in an ICC arbitration against Korek Telecom and others under an English law-governed shareholders' agreement, involving direct and derivative claims for conspiracy and breach of contract and resulting in a favourable award of USD 1.65 billion;
- Advising a Scandinavian hydroelectric power producer in relation to price revision and other claims under long-term supply contracts;
- Representing an African State in ICC arbitrations relating to a power plant project with contracts governed by a common law system;
- Representing a leading European buyer of gas in an ad hoc arbitration relating to the price of gas under a long-term supply contract;
- Representing an Asian private equity fund in a SIAC arbitration regarding a disputed share valuation under a contract governed by English law;
- Representing an investor in the coal mining industry in an ICSID arbitration against the Republic of Serbia under a bilateral investment treaty;
- Representing an oil and gas company in an expert determination and LCIA arbitrations concerning a shareholder dispute in the Middle East under contracts governed by English law.
