Laura is a paralegal in the Madrid office. She has experience in international commercial and investment arbitration, as well as domestic arbitration in Colombia in a range of sectors including energy, construction, and oil and gas.
Laura holds an LL.B. from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is currently studying for a LL.M. in International Law with a specialisation in private international law at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Laura was a semifinalist and won the Best Oralist award in the International Arbitration and Commercial Law Competition – Moot Madrid 2024. She also won awards for Best Oralist and Best Team in the National Arbitration Competition (Medellín), the Commercial Arbitration Competition (Cali) and the International Investment Arbitration Competition (Washington).
Prior to joining Three Crowns, Laura worked as an associate in the dispute resolution team at Posse Herrera Ruiz in Colombia.
Laura speaks Spanish and English. She is admitted to practice in Colombia.
Emmanuelle is a paralegal in the Paris office. She has experience in French litigation, particularly in construction, real estate, and public law before lower courts. Emmanuelle is also experienced in numerous sectors before higher courts (Conseil d’Etat, Court of cassation, ECHR).
Emmanuelle’s experience includes providing legal support to individuals, companies, condo unions in building permits litigation and expropriation disputes.
Before higher courts, Emmanuelle has been involved in a variety of areas, such as criminal law, labour law, tax law, immigration law.
Maria is as a Paralegal in the London Office. She has experience in litigation and international arbitration across a range of sectors including energy/natural resources, construction, and shareholder disputes.
Maria’s experience involves supporting intricate, high value cases before the High Court and the Court of Appeal, in matters concerning shareholder disputes, fraud, insolvency claims and defamation. She has managed many e-discovery projects in civil litigation and employment law, catering to high net-worth clientele, and is regularly engaged in cases that require her linguistic proficiency, particularly in Russian.
Maria’s involvement extends to the firm’s pro bono practice, where she recently contributed to an application before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This application focused on state violations of various ECHR Articles, such as the right to life and the prohibition of torture.
Kelly is a senior paralegal in our Washington, DC, office. She has significant experience supporting international commercial and investor-State arbitration cases across various sectors under all major arbitration rules, many of them from the inception of the case through to the final hearing. She has been the lead paralegal in hearings based in London, Paris, Geneva, New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and Brisbane.
Kelly also recently co-authored an article on e-Disclosure for GAR’s The Guide to Evidence in International Arbitration.
Holly is a Senior Paralegal in the London office. She has broad experience in a variety of international commercial arbitrations governed by a range of applicable laws and major institutional rules across various sectors, as well as in assisting State-owned entities in investor-State arbitrations.
Holly also has significant experience in providing legal support in high value and complex disputes before the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in the areas of white collar crime, regulatory and commercial law. She has extensive experience in large scale e-discovery projects and document production, international asset tracing, freezing and search orders and offshore trusts. Holly’s expertise lies in legal research, filing submissions and providing support during hearings, both virtually and in-person.
Eleonore is the firm’s Paralegal Manager, and Case Manager, based in our Paris office. She has broad experience in a variety of international commercial arbitrations governed by a range of applicable laws and major institutional rules across various sectors, as well as in assisting States on matters of public international law at the International Court of Justice, and State-owned entities in investor-State arbitrations.
Eleonore’s recent experience includes:
- Assisting the counsel team in an ad hoc multibillion-dollar commercial arbitration arising out of a national oil company’s failure to supply gas under a long-term contract
- Assisting the counsel team in an ICC arbitration arising out of the interpretation of a price revision formula in the parties’ long-term contract
- Assisting the counsel team in an UNCITRAL investment treaty arbitration against a State, obtaining a favourable award
- Assisting the counsel team to the Kingdom of Bahrain before the International Court of Justice in two parallel appeals from decisions of the International Civil Aviation Council in cases brought by Qatar against Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain under the Convention on International Civil Aviation and the International Air Services Transit Agreement
- Assisting the counsel team in an ICC arbitration initiated by a French constructions company against a State relating to a project to design, build and operate a waste-to-energy plant
Hannah is a Senior Paralegal in the London office. She is experienced in litigation and international arbitration across a range of sectors including construction, oil & gas, technology and pharmaceuticals. She has also been involved in investor-state arbitration.
Hannah provides legal support throughout the lifecycle of a dispute. She has extensive experience in large scale e-discovery projects and document production, together with experience in legal research, filing submissions and providing support during hearings, both virtually and in-person.
