The Mareva Injunction v the Saisie Conservatoire
- A comparison of the interim relief procedure for attachment of assets before English common law courts and French civil courts -
The lecture will deal with a hot topic that genuinely transgresses national borders: freezing orders - the famous Englis 'Mareva Injunction' compared to its French kin. This field of law is in development (or turmoil) virtually in all parts of the world because in our world characterized by globalization and increasing speed of transactions the need for such devices has incrased drastically.
Peter Iglikowski is a dual qualified French and English commercial lawyer. He is an Avocat a la Cour de Paris and a solicitor of the Supreme Court in England and Wales. He has been practicing in the field of international arbitration since 1986 and was a partner of a leading English firm of solicitors in their Paris office before setting up a specialist boutique firm Lewis & Co based in Paris in 2010. Since 1989 he has been teaching comparative law at the University of Paris V Rene Descartes. He has considerable experience of dealing with the courts in England and France in relation to attachment of assets in support of substantive legal proceedings including arbitrations in Paris and London.