Jonas Habert is a dual-qualified solicitor in England & Wales and a Paris Bar avocat. He specialises in high-stakes international arbitration, while also regularly acting in complex, high-value commercial litigation.
Jonas has extensive experience representing multinational corporations and States in both commercial and investment treaty arbitrations conducted under all major institutional rules. He regularly conducts his own advocacy and has handled disputes across a range of governing laws and sectors, with a particular focus on construction, energy, mining and financial services. In parallel, he regularly advises on arbitration-related court proceedings, including jurisdictional challenges and the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards against both private parties and sovereign States.
His practice has a strong cross-border dimension, and he frequently represents clients in disputes involving assets and entities across Europe as well as Francophone and Anglophone Africa.
Jonas read Law at Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, graduating with distinction, and holds a Master’s degree in International Private Law and International Commercial Law from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. As part of his studies, he also attended University College London.
After beginning his career in Paris at a leading international arbitration firm, Jonas joined Enyo Law in 2017. He is fluent in both English and French.
- Acting for a Dutch group against another European group regarding the breach of a joint venture agreement concerning a major infrastructural project in a politically volatile region.
- Acting for an investor against a South Caucasus state regarding allegations of the latter’s expropriation of the former's company and land.
- Acting for a mining company against a West African country in a claim involving allegations of breach of contract and expropriation.
- Acting for a leading French company active in the defence industry in an international commercial arbitration case against its major furnisher for breach of contract.
- Acting for a company subjected to freezing orders in insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings.
- Acting for Ascent Resources in its ICSID arbitration under the ECT against Slovenia in relation to the development of a gas field.
- Acting for the developer and owner of a cryptocurrency wallet in an unfair prejudice petition following his exclusion from the management of the business and misappropriation of the assets of the business by the management.
- Acting for an energy company resisting anti-suit injunction applications against European banks in a dispute related to EU sanctions
- Section 18 of the Arbitration Act, How and When to Use It? - Silver Dry Bulk Co Ltd (Claimant) -v- Homer Hulbert Maritime Co Ltd (Respondent) (Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 13 January 2017)
- Commentary of Paris Court of Appeal (Pôle 1 – Chambre 1 - n°15/01650 – Republic of Kirgizstan v Valeriy Belokon) (LexisNexis Arbitration PSL, 21 February 2017)
- 'Worldwide freezing order. Dissipation. Assets. Enforcement. Extraterritoriality. Injunctions. England. Arbitration act 1996. Great Station Properties S.A., Inter Growth Investments Limited -v- UMS Holding Limited, Energy Standard Fund Limited, Energy Standard Industries Limited' (15 Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem, Issue 58, pp. 164–180, 2018).
- LexisNexis PSL - Republic of Kyrgyzstan v Valeriy Belokon – Commentary of French Cour de cassation’s decision to set aside award for money laundering – 20 April 2022
- Enyo Update – Commentary of A and B v C, D and E [2020] EWCA Civ 409 - Taking of evidence by way of deposition from a non-party witness in aid of foreign arbitration proceedings.
- Elgar Publications - The ICSID Convention Regulations and Rules – A Practical Commentary (Julien Fouret, Remy Gerbay and Gloria Alvarez): Chapter on Rule 17 (co-authored with Daniel Levy) – 2020.
