Practice Group

International
Arbitration
Practice Group
Our International Arbitration
Group, which is one of the largest
in Switzerland, comprises
leading arbitration practitioners
with extensive experience in
a wide range of industries and
complex arbitration matters not
only in Switzerland and under
Swiss law, but globally and under
different laws. Our team is
multicultural and multilingual,
with diverse legal backgrounds.
This enables us to understand
our clients’ diverse perspectives
and needs, and to handle
matters governed by a wide array
of laws, in various languages.
We meet our clients’ expecta-
tions in terms of legal advice
and strategy, and business and
industry focus.
Expertise
We act as lead counsel in disputes of all
types and magnitude, including large,
complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial,
investment and sports disputes, seated
in common law and civil law jurisdictions
around the world. We act for states, state
entities, multinational corporations,
small and medium-size businesses and
individual commercial players. Our team
also has unrivalled experience in set-
ting-aside proceedings before the Swiss
Supreme Court.
Our representations range from pre-liti-
gious advice over negotiation strategies
to mediation, conciliation, adjudication,
dispute boards, arbitration, arbitra-
tion-related litigation and (pre-trial) dis-
covery to enforcement proceedings and
strategies in Switzerland and elsewhere.
Although we focus on counsel work, we
also sit as arbitrator, which allows us
to offer our clients insight into how an
arbitral tribunal ‘works’. We remain at the
forefront of trends and developments in
international arbitration through involve-
ment in international organisations and
associations, academia and arbitral
institutions.
Our team specialises in the construction,
energy, life sciences, mining, shipping,
trade, transportation, commodities, sport
and entertainment sectors.
We have acted in disputes involving
parties from around the globe and in
many types of commercial transactions,
such as:
— Infrastructure, construction and engi-
neering
— Mergers and acquisitions
— Joint ventures, consortium agree-
ments and shareholder disputes
— Energy upstream and downstream,
including renewables
— Pharmaceuticals and life sciences
— Automotive
— Investment disputes
— Mining and minerals
— Commodities trading
— Luxury and consumer goods
— Information technology, patent and
other intellectual property-related
disputes
— Licensing, technology transfer and
distribution agreements
— Hotels and hospitality
— Sport-related commercial disputes
— Finance and banking transactions
— Transport, aviation, shipping and mar-
itime disputes
Deals and Cases
We have acted in cases under all leading
arbitration rules and ad hoc with seats of
arbitration around the globe, including:
— Representation of a consortium of
contractors in a billion-dollar dispute
concerning one of the world’s largest
infrastructure projects
— Representation of a state in four
investment treaty arbitrations worth
several billion dollars and three Su-
preme Court proceedings related to
investment treaty arbitrations
— Representation of many leading engi-
neering and construction companies
in a wide variety of fields, including
infrastructure projects, industrial
facilities, oil refining and gas termi-
nals, mining and major hotel projects,
under different applicable law (Swiss,
French, German, Russian, Emirati,
Polish, Filipino, Saudi, etc.)
— Representation of a leading European
pharmaceutical group against a major
US pharmaceutical company in a mul-
tibillion-dollar WIPO arbitration arising
from a patent license agreement cov-
ering one of the world’s best-selling
pharmaceutical products
— Representation of a leading Europe-
an energy company in a number of
commercial disputes, including price
review disputes and disputes over
the construction and/or operation of
power plants
— Representation of several Russian
athletes (before the IOC, CAS and
their sports federations) investigated
for allegations of systematic doping
— Representation of a developer and
producer of complex automotive parts
in a number of high-value arbitrations
concerning research and develop-
ment joint ventures and claims deriv-
ing from recalls due to defective parts
— Representation of MOL Hungarian
Oil and Gas Company Plc. in set-
ting-aside proceedings before the
Swiss Supreme Court concerning a
multibillion-dollar dispute with the
Republic of Croatia
Recognitions
The group and leading practitioners
are regularly ranked and recognised
among leading law firms in global
directories and publications:
— Chambers Global and Europe in
Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
and Arbitrators
— Legal 500 in Dispute Resolution:
Arbitration
— Expert Guides
— WWL Switzerland and across
WWL Arbitration international
guides
— GAR 30 and GAR 100
Contacts

Philippe Bärtsch, LL.M. Dr. Christopher Boog Elliott Geisinger Peter Burckhardt, LL.M.
Managing Partner Zurich/ Partner Zurich/Singapore Partner Geneva Partner Zurich
Geneva Co-Head of Practice Group Co-Head of Practice Group
Co-Head of Practice Group

Anya George Philipp Groz, LL.M. Dr. Urs Hoffmann-Nowotny Alexander Jolles
Partner Zurich Partner Zurich Partner Zurich Partner Zurich

Dr. Anna Kozmenko, LL.M. Dr. Stefan Leimgruber Julie Raneda Prof. Dr. Alexander von Ziegler, LL.M.
Partner Zurich Partner Zurich Partner Singapore Partner Zurich

Prof. Dr. Peter Georg Picht, LL.M. Katherine Bell Anne-Carole Cremades, LL.M. Sebastiano Nessi, LL.M.
Of Counsel Zurich Counsel Zurich Counsel Geneva Counsel Geneva
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