Region: Switzerland

Lalive has promoted Augustin Barrier to partner in Geneva and Adrien Canivet to counsel in London.

03 December 2024

An ICSID tribunal hearing a claim brought by Glencore against Colombia over a mining project has allowed two Indigenous communities to intervene in the proceedings. 

18 November 2024

Two groups of investors affected by the rescue of Credit Suisse have formally notified Switzerland of potential investment treaty claims – as another group preparing a claim finalises a third-party funding deal. 

31 October 2024

French practitioner and academic Hugo Barbier is set to join the partnership at Peter & Kim in Geneva. 

23 October 2024

A Swiss court has upheld an award favouring German state-owned energy company Uniper in an under-the-radar dispute with a Dutch gas distributor concerning a long-term supply contract.

07 October 2024

Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court has rejected a bid by a German contractor to revive a US$40 million ICC claim against a municipality in Montenegro over a wastewater treatment project.

01 October 2024

US gymnast Jordan Chiles is seeking to overturn a controversial Court of Arbitration for Sport award that effectively stripped her of her Olympic bronze medal, alleging that CAS should have reopened the case to review new video footage and that tribunal chair Hamid Gharavi was conflicted.

20 September 2024

British lawyer Matthew Parish has lost an English libel suit against the host of Wikipedia over an article reporting the fact that he was criminally convicted in Switzerland because of his role in a fraudulent arbitration.

10 September 2024

Leading French arbitrator Yves Derains has been disqualified from hearing a Chinese solar panel producer’s ICSID claim against Italy over an alleged issue conflict stemming from his role as arbitrator in an earlier case against the state.

21 August 2024

A UK court has dismissed the Czech Republic’s remaining challenges to a US$750 million treaty award won by investors in a blood plasma business, having previously upheld one ground raised by the state.

09 August 2024