Organisation: Swiss Arbitration Association

Alexandra Johnson is joining the partnership at Pestalozzi in Geneva after nearly six years at Bär & Karrer.

25 August 2022

The LCIA has revealed it took on fewer cases in 2021 compared with the covid-fuelled high of the year before – while announcing the latest appointments to the LCIA Court.

17 May 2022

The Swiss Arbitration Centre has refused to disqualify an arbitrator because of views he expressed in an academic article about advances on costs – while suggesting that arbitrators should think twice about publishing on “potentially sensitive issues” while they have cases pending.

07 March 2022

Clyde & Co’s head of arbitration in Paris Nadia Darwazeh has been awarded the Swiss Arbitration Association’s prize for advocacy.

24 February 2022

Nadja Jaisli has taken over as co-head of arbitration at Bär & Karrer from Daniel Hochstrasser as he prepares to leave the partnership at the end of this year to launch a solo practice.

14 February 2022

The nominations process for the 12th annual GAR Awards is underway, as we publish our first two shortlists.

11 February 2022

Korean-Swiss firm Peter & Kim has continued its rapid growth with the hire of former Korean Commercial Arbitration Board president Ho Won Lee in Seoul and Swiss practitioner Flavio Peter in Geneva.

16 September 2021

The Swiss Arbitration Association, or ASA, has launched an “Arbitration Toolbox” providing practical advice on how to organise and conduct cases.  

16 June 2021

The Swiss Arbitration Association has announced the launch of an online platform providing comprehensive access to information about arbitration in Switzerland and all that the jurisdiction has to offer.

01 June 2021

In a major innovation that has already made the GAR Awards nominations list, the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution is to be transformed into the Swiss Arbitration Centre, with ASA as majority shareholder and updated rules of arbitration.

20 May 2021