Louis Degos is a highly regarded litigation and arbitration lawyer. He is head of the Litigation and Arbitration practice at K&L Gates Paris. Louis Degos has been elected as a member of National Council of Bar Associations for a three year mandate (2015-2017) and he is chairman of the Commission on Future, Prospective, and Innovation of the legal profession (CNB). From January 2012 to December 2014 Louis Degos has served with distinction as an elected member of the elite Council of the Paris Bar.

Louis Degos concentrates his practice on arbitration and he has extensive experience in commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He pleads regularly before French state courts and arbitral (ad hoc and institutional) tribunals in domestic and international disputes.

Louis Degos has taken part in more than 95 arbitrations as a counsel or as an arbitrator (President of Arbitral Tribunal, co-arbitrator or sole arbitrator) in domestic and international arbitrations, ad hoc or following arbitration rules (ICC, CMAP, AFA, Swiss rules of international arbitration, UNCITRAL etc.). Louis Degos frequently represents parties in alternative dispute resolution proceedings. He advises parties within the framework of mediations and other alternative dispute resolution modes, such as assisted negotiation or mini-trial.

He is also a regularly appointed mediator, both in domestic and international disputes, on high profile cases in a wide range of industry sectors.

Louis Degos is well-known for his particular knowledge in arbitration law and his experience in disputes following or related to arbitration. He represents parties before state courts within the framework of proceedings related to arbitration (temporary and protective measures, appointment of the arbitral tribunal, appeal, annulment recourse and execution of awards). He has been counsel, co-counsel or consultant, in over 20 recourses against or enforcement of arbitral awards in France and abroad. He is also the regular counsel of an important institution of arbitration and often represents arbitrators whose liability is engaged before courts.