Personal bio
Patrick Noonan was General Counsel and Secretary General for 18 years of Nexans (French multinational listed on the Paris Stock Exchange), as well as interim General Counsel of Soitec (Paris Stock Exchange) in 2021.He began his career as an attorney at Patton, Boggs in Washington D.C. and Wilson, Sonsini in Palo Alto, before moving on to Texas Instruments in Nice, and Alcatel in Brussels, Paris, and Toronto. He brings first-hand transaction experience and a business point of view to dispute resolution. He has participated in international arbitrations and mediations as counsel, party, strategist, and witness, in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. He is included on the American Arbitration Association-ICDR Panel of Arbitrators, the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, the arbitrator rosters of the Saudi SCCA and the Qatar QICCA, and the panel of Tiers Conciliateurs, Paris Place de Droit (dispositif COVID19). He is a CIArb Fellow and CEDR Accredited Mediator. He has a J.D. and B.S.(Engineering) from Stanford University, studied law in France and Italy, and has worked in common law and civil law environments.