Biography

NATIONALITIES:	Belgian and Dominican
LANGUAGES:	English, Spanish and French
ADMISSION:	Dominican Republic
OFFICE:	Paris

Escipión is an associate at Derains & Gharavi specialised in international arbitration. His areas of practice include international commercial disputes and investment arbitration. He has represented the Dominican Republic in international arbitrations under the Vice Ministry of Foreign Investment and acted in proceedings conducted under the arbitration rules of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Permanent Cour of Arbitration (PCA) and UNCITRAL.

Escipión holds an LLM in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and an LLB from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre Y Maestra University in Santo Domingo.

Escipión is admitted to practice law in the Dominican Republic.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

As of end of January 2025	Associate, Derains & Gharavi (Paris)
July–December 2024	Intern, International Arbitration, Clifford Chance (Paris)
January–June 2024	Intern, Derains & Gharavi (Paris)
August–December 2023	Intern, International Arbitration, Squire Patton Bogs (Paris)
February 2021–August 2022	Legal Analyst, DPSCI, Vice ministry of Foreign Trade (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
January 2018-May 2020	Litigation paralegal, OFAR law firm (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

EDUCATION

2023	LLM in International Dispute Settlement – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (MIDS) (IHEID) – Geneva, Switzerland)
2022	Bachelor of Laws – Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre Y Maestra (PUCMM) – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic