Region: Switzerland
CMS promotes and recruits
CMS has promoted construction disputes lawyer Jay Randhawa to the partnership in Riyadh, while also hiring Bajar Scharaw as counsel in Zurich from Herbert Smith Freehills.
03 April 2025
Alstom liable to consortium partners over Turkish rail project
Switzerland’s highest court has rejected two challenges to an ICC award that requires French transport infrastructure group Alstom to pay over €63 million to its Japanese and Turkish partners for terminating a project to upgrade a commuter rail line in Istanbul.
26 March 2025
Dual national fails to revive pharma claim against Venezuela
A Swiss court has upheld an UNCITRAL tribunal’s decision to dismiss a US$200 million investment treaty claim against Venezuela because the claimant’s dominant and effective nationality was Venezuelan rather than Spanish.
12 March 2025
ICSID creditors target Italian building in Zurich
A Swiss court has reportedly ordered the seizure of a historic building in Zurich owned by the Italian state, at the request of German and Austrian investment funds seeking to collect on an Energy Charter Treaty award now worth over €28 million.
05 March 2025
Ukrainian lawyers acquitted of fraud in Switzerland
Three partners at Ukrainian firm Eterna Law have been acquitted of fraud charges in Switzerland after a former arbitration client withdrew a criminal complaint that they had forged a legal services agreement.
05 March 2025
ICC counsel joins Schellenberg Wittmer
Greg Lourie has left the ICC Court, where he led a case management team in Paris, to join Schellenberg Wittmer as counsel in Zurich.
31 January 2025
Pestalozzi practice heads launch new boutique
Pestalozzi’s former heads of arbitration in Zurich and Geneva, Laurent Killias and Thomas Legler, have broken away from the firm to launch a new disputes boutique.
14 January 2025
New leadership at Lalive
Domitille Baizeau has stepped down as Lalive’s managing partner after a decade to take over from Joachim Knoll as co-chair of the firm’s international arbitration practice.
07 January 2025
Former Kosovan president wins ICSID award
An ICSID tribunal has ordered Kosovo to compensate a company owned by the country’s former president for amounts invested in a hotel project.
06 January 2025
More claims loom for Switzerland over Credit Suisse
Two more groups of investors affected by the rescue of Credit Suisse have formally notified Switzerland of potential investment treaty claims – seeking at least US$450 million in damages.
03 January 2025