Maxence Rivoire

Maxence Rivoire France

Member of the arbitral tribunal
France French (France) Resident in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland French — Fluent English — Fluent Italian — Intermediate

Surname
Rivoire
First name
Maxence
Current professional position
Lecturer in Law
Organisation / firm
King's College London
Country of residence
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Nationality
French (France)
Languages spoken & proficiency
FrenchFluent EnglishFluent ItalianIntermediate

Arbitrator roles
Member of the arbitral tribunal
Professional biography
Dr Maxence Rivoire is a Lecturer in Law at King’s College London and an academic fellow of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Prior to becoming an academic, he was an international arbitration associate at Freshfields in Paris, where he represented clients in numerous international arbitrations across a range of sectors and applicable laws, including in intellectual property disputes. In addition to the PMAC, he is included on the list of arbitators of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. Dr Rivoire’s research focuses on the arbitration of intellectual property disputes. His work in this area has won several prizes, including the Yorke Prize, the Nappert Prize in International Arbitration, and the American Society of International Law's Prize for Best Published Work in the Field of International IP Law. He is also the author of a forthcoming book titled "The Principles of Territoriality in Intellectual Property Arbitration". Qualified and admitted to practice in France, Dr Rivoire holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford, an LLM in Private International Law and International Commercial Law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and an LLB from the University of Grenoble. He also studied on a year-long exchange at McGill University.

Legal / dispute expertise
Commercial contracts Copyrights & related rights Damages & valuation Dispute resolution / arbitration practice European patents Licensing & technology transfer National patents Trademarks Unfair competition Unitary patents
Industries
Construction & engineering Energy & utilities Technology & IT

Bar admission(s)
France (Certificate of Aptitude to the French Legal Profession)
Governing law experience
Civil law Common law Mixed
Seat of arbitration experience
Paris, London

Education (degrees)
PhD in Law - University of Cambridge
Institutional panels & memberships
HKIAC – Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Publications and/or speaking engagements

Publications

- The Principles of Territoriality in Intellectual Property Arbitration (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press).

- “Cart Before the Horse? BSH Hausgeräte v Electrolux and Exclusive Jurisdiction over Patent Validity” (2026) 89(1) Modern Law Review 158–178.

- “Party Autonomy and the Applicable Law to the Merits in Intellectual Property Arbitration” (2025) 41(2) Arbitration International 213–255.

- “Exclusive Jurisdiction in Patent Entitlement and Ownership Disputes under the recast Brussels I Regulation” (2022) 81(3) Cambridge Law Journal 480–484.

- “The Law Applicable to the Arbitrability of Registered Intellectual Property Rights” (2023) 1 ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin 36–55.

- “The Civilian Criterion of Originality in the United Kingdom: An Incomplete Transplant” (2021) 33(1) Cahiers de propriété intellectuelle 229–250 (in French).

- “An Alternative to Choice of Law in First Ownership of Copyright Cases: The Substantive Law Method” (2018) 65(2) Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA 203–234.

- “Arbitrability of Copyright in French Law” (2017) 4 McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution 43–64 (in French).

- “Intellectual Property, Supreme Court of Canada and Civil Law” (2015) 60(3) McGill Law Journal 381–430 (co-authored with E. Richard Gold; in French).

- “Access to Justice and the Arbitration of Copyright Disputes”, in G. Austin and D. Tan (eds), Access to Justice in the Creative Economy (forthcoming).