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Ela Barda

Ela Barda is a Partner at Signature Litigation’s Paris office specialising in commercial litigation, digital platform law, civil fraud and enforcement matters. Ela has over 10 years’ experience in commercial litigation. She represents both claimants and defendants before the French civil and commercial courts at all stages of litigation with a particular focus on high-profile cross border disputes. She has developed specific expertise in digital platform law and regularly represents French and international online platforms and media tech companies in civil and commercial litigation against individuals, companies and local authorities. Ela also has extensive experience in investigating, initiating and defending civil fraud claims. She regularly acts for international clients on asset-tracing and asset recovery proceedings. She has in-depth experience in pre-action proceedings on a wide range of interim applications. In addition, Ela has developed a strong expertise in the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. Ela also represents manufacturers in commercial and product liability disputes in the aviation sector, as well as company directors in personal liability cases before commercial courts in the scope of insolvency proceedings. · Signature Litigation AARPI

FranceCommercial Litigation, Digital Platform LawFrench, English, Turkish

About

Partner at Signature Litigation’s Paris office specialising in commercial litigation, digital platform law, civil fraud and enforcement matters. She has over 10 years' experience representing claimants and defendants before French civil and commercial courts in complex cross-border disputes, and acts on asset-tracing and asset-recovery, enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, aviation product-liability matters and directors' liability in insolvency proceedings.

Practice areas

Commercial LitigationDigital Platform LawCivil FraudEnforcement & Asset RecoveryAviation & Product LiabilityInsolvency

Office

Expertise

Online platforms & media tech companiesAsset tracing and asset recoveryEnforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awardsPre-action proceedings and interim reliefAviation manufacturers and product liabilityDirectors' personal liability in insolvency matters

Education

  • Université Paris Dauphine – PSL Université
  • Paris-Panthéon-Assas University
  • The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • École de Formation du Barreau de Paris

Languages

FrenchEnglishTurkish