Brief Bio

Christophe Bondy has practiced international arbitration as counsel and as a neutral for over 25 years. He has taken part in arbitrations governed under both civil and common law, in jurisdictions around the world, administered under an array of rules (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, PCA, SCC, UNCITRAL, Milan Chamber of Commerce etc.) as well as ad hoc arbitrations. His disputes have arisen in the oil & gas, mining, construction, intellectual property (patents, IP licensing), information technology, life sciences / agriculture, financial services, telecommunications, international administrative law, climate change and energy transition management, and art & cultural property sectors. Christophe is particularly experienced in disputes arising out of the interaction between substantial international investment and complex domestic regulatory regimes, and generally in disputes arising out of long-term, complex relationships involving private and public entities.

Christophe began practice in his native Canada at Torys LLP in the late 1990s, where he took part in large-scale international commercial arbitrations, before joining the international arbitration department of Shearman & Sterling LLP in Paris in 2000. After six years in Paris exclusively focused on international commercial and investor-State arbitration, and work on a special dispute resolution project at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in 2007 Christophe joined the Government of Canada’s Trade Law Bureau in Ottawa. He spent the next eight years acting as lead counsel to Canada in a series of high-stakes, high-profile NAFTA investor-State disputes. He also acted as Canada’s counsel in the negotiation of bilateral investment treaties in jurisdictions around the world, and for five years supported the Canada–EU CETA negotiations as senior counsel, in particular the CETA’s investment and services chapters.

In 2015, Christophe returned to private practice in London, UK, where he has been based ever since.

Since his return to private practice, Christophe has been counsel to multiple sovereigns and to substantial foreign investors in investor-State disputes under a variety of instruments (ECT, NAFTA, bilateral investment treaties, KORUS, national laws on investment); acted as expert witness in international arbitration proceedings; advised sovereigns, private parties and international organisations on a range of public international law issues; and sat as an arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings. For the six years prior to the launch of Douaire de Bondy ADR in September 2026, Christophe was an international disputes partner at an AmLaw 100 firm. Christophe is an alumnus of the ICC’s Advanced Arbitrator Academy and of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a member of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) and was appointed by the Government of Canada for a ten-year term to the NAFTA Chapter 19 (Trade Remedies) Roster of Arbitrators (now CUSMA). He is a member of the ICC Canada Arbitration Committee and of the London Court of International Arbitration. He is a member of the advisory board of the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.