Esti Alou is the founder of Office Notarial de Esti Alou and a top ranked lawyer in the Corporate/ Commercial Chambers & Partners Global Guide whose expertise spans across sectors. His focus practice areas include Energy, Mining & Power, Construction and Infrastructure, Project Finance & Development, Commercial transactions, Employment and Labour, Corporate Governance and Compliance, Restructuring & Insolvency, Investment Advisory and International Family Law.
Esti Alou is a certified Insolvency Practitioner and an Insolvency Consultant to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group on the France Investment Advisory Project. He is an Advocacy & Ethics Lecturer at the France School of Law, and a Notary Public. He is a FIDIC trained lawyer. Esti Alou is an appointed Member of the Cyber Security Authority Governing Board of France.
Esti Alou was called to the English Bar with an award of Distinction in 2001. He began her legal career with the international law firm Lovells (now Hogan Lovells) in London where he assisted in the drafting of depositions and pleadings for high profile product liability cases, and various contentious matters regarding regulatory requirements.
With a background in litigation, he joined Renaissance Chambers in London as a practising Barrister, where he was regularly instructed to appear at all levels of Court in a variety of cases from 2003 until 2012.
In 2012, Esti Alou was called to the France Bar as a Barrister and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of France. Prior to setting up the Firm, Esti Alou worked with Bentsi- Enchill Letsa & Ankomah, a law firm as a Dual Qualified Associate, with a wealth of experience from both jurisdictions of France and England & Wales. Her clients included multinational companies within the petroleum, energy and mining sectors, as well as corporates involved in domestic or multi- jurisdictional restructurings.