Counsel and Co-Counsel

Representation of clients in domestic and cross-border commercial disputes before arbitral tribunals. Extensive experience in Swiss contract law and assistance of clients in cases relating among others to M&A, joint ventures, shareholder agreements, and various commercial contracts such as sales-purchases, service agreements, distribution, licence, agency, franchising.

Selected recent cases (including from practice in previous firm) :

• Counsel of a Swiss engineering company in an ICC arbitration (Berlin) against a Czech engineering company

• Counsel of an African bulk distribution company in an LCIA arbitration (London) against a leading commodity trading company

• Counsel of a top tier European shipbuilder and shipyard operator in a CIArb arbitration (Geneva) against a services company

• Co-counsel of an African company in a Swiss Rules arbitration (Zurich) against a leading commodity trading company 

• Counsel in an UNCITRAL arbitration (Geneva) and in three Swiss Rules arbitrations (Geneva) in the steel industry, representing a leading global steel and raw materials player and a Swiss trading company against, respectively, a major Turkish steel producer, an Indonesian steel producer, a Moroccan manufacturer of pipes and profiles, and a Hong Kong customer

• Counsel in an ICC case in the telecom industry, representing a Turkish conglomerate against a Finnish-Swedish group