Personal bio

Patrick Noonan was General Counsel and Secretary General for 18 years of Nexans (French multinational listed on the Paris Stock Exchange), as well as General Counsel and Board Secretary of Soitec (Paris Stock Exchange) from 2021 -2023. He began his career as an attorney at Patton, Boggs in Washington D.C. and Wilson, Sonsini in Palo Alto, before moving on to Texas Instruments in Nice, and Alcatel in Brussels, Paris, and Toronto. He brings first-hand transaction experience and a business point of view to dispute resolution. He has participated in international arbitrations and mediations as counsel, party, strategist, and witness, in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. He is included on the American Arbitration Association-ICDR Panel of Arbitrators, the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, the arbitrator rosters of the Saudi SCCA, the Qatar QICCA, the Centre de Mediation et d’Arbitrage de Paris (CMAP); the LCIA Arbitrator Database, and the European Union Panel of Arbitrators and Trade and Sustainable Development Experts for Bilateral Trade Agreement Disputes. He is a CIArb Fellow and CEDR Accredited Mediator. He has a J.D. and B.S.(Engineering) from Stanford University, studied law in France and Italy, and has worked in common law and civil law environments.