Firm Profile:
LALIVE is a firm of Swiss and international lawyers. One of its principal areas of expertise is international contracts and the settlement of international disputes through arbitration, other forms of ADR and court litigation, where its reputation is very well established.
LALIVE also frequently works as part of a team with other attorneys retained by the client. Such co-operation preserves the established working relationship with the client's main law firm and adds, for the particular purposes of a given case, the required specialised advice in the relevant dispute resolution settlement procedure as well as other expertise. LALIVE also provides the logistic support which a foreign law firm may require for the conduct of a case in Switzerland.
In addition to arbitration and international dispute resolution, the firm provides a range of services in art and cultural property law, banking and finance, corporate/M&A, domestic litigation, estate planning, international criminal law and white collar crime, international projects, intellectual property, IT and telecommunications, public international law and international trade law, real estate, restructuring and insolvency.
Domestic Arbitration/ADR Experience:
The Firm and its members frequently act as counsel or arbitrators in domestic arbitration proceedings in various legal fields.
International Arbitration/ADR Experience:
Lawyers of the Firm have acted as counsel, expert or arbitrator in a very large number of arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings conducted under the rules of the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, AAA, UN-ECE, Iran-US Claims Tribunal, United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), LCIA, Swiss Chambers of Commerce and Industry ("Swiss Rules"), Int. Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Camera Arbitrale Nazionale e Internazionale di Milano, Court of Arbitration for Sport and other instances. They have also acted in ad hoc arbitrations as well as in inter-State disputes and in many of the published cases regarding disputes over State contracts (Aramco, Sapphire, Texaco/Calasiatic, Holiday Inns/Occidental Petroleum Corporation v. Government of Morocco, Aminoil, Westland etc.)
Professional Memberships: Partners of the firm are members and/or hold key positions in the following professional associations: ICCA; Institute of International Law; ICC; ICC Institute of World Business Law; ICC Swiss National Committee; ICC New Zealand National Committee; Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA); ASA below 40; UNCITRAL Expert Group on Arbitral Practice; ICC Commission on Arbitration; Geneva Chamber of Commerce and industry Arbitration Committee (Swiss Rules); Comité français de l'arbitrage; Deutsche Inst. für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit; CIArb; LCIA; LCIA's YIAG; WIPO Arbitration and Consultative Commission; Euro-Arab Arbitration System; Consiglio Arbitrale della Camera Arbitrale Nazionale e Internazionale di Milano; International Law Association; Ligue Internationale du Droit de la Concurrence; Licensing Exec. Soc., Swiss Chapter; Swiss, German, Italian, Inter-Pacific, District of Columbia and Maryland (USA) Bars; IBA (Sections on General Practice, Business Law, Committee T, International Construction Projects, Business Crime and Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Committee); Southwestern Legal Foundation; Union Internationale des Avocats; American Bar Association; Swiss Society of International Law; American Society of International Law; British Institute of International and Comparative Law; International Academy of Comparative Law; Scientific Cncl., Swiss and International Construction Law; Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC); Chinese European Arbitration Centre (CEAC).
