Cherine Foty

Cherine Foty is a Senior Associate in the International Arbitration Group of Covington & Burling LLP, based in Washington, D.C.  She is a dually qualified common law and civil law lawyer and spent several years practicing international arbitration in the Paris office of a major U.S. law firm.  Cherine has particular experience in the energy sector, regularly representing clients in gas pricing arbitrations under long-term gas supply agreements and in cases involving renewable energy and ESG issues. She also regularly handles complex international commercial disputes across different sectors, and has acted for both investors and states in investor-state arbitrations involving public and private international law. 

Cherine is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and on the board of directors of ArbitralWomen, the Global Co-Chair of the Campaign for Greener Arbitration, on the Steering Committee of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s Y-ADR, and the Advisor for Diversity & Inclusion for Arbitrator Intelligence.  She has been recognized as a Best Lawyers “One to Watch” for France in the field of international arbitration and she speaks five languages.