Lalive

About this office:

Lalive is a full service Swiss law practice, renowned for its expertise and experience in international legal matters. It has offices in Geneva and Zurich, as well as Doha, Qatar, Lalive in Qatar LLP. The firm currently comprises lawyers and legal advisers from Switzerland and more than a dozen other countries, who together speak more than ten languages and whose legal expertise covers several key jurisdictions including common law jurisdictions. The main working language of the firm is English. Lalive operates on a worldwide basis and its clients include private and public sector entities, states and international organizations. Every client has permanent access to the partner in charge of the case, as well as to the team assigned it. Lalive is independent and often works in close cooperation with major firms from around the world. Over a fifty-year period Lalive's capacity to adapt to clients' needs and to turn successfully to new practice areas has brought the firm wide recognition for its professional services. Lawyers of the Firm are regularly invited to share their knowledge in crucial areas of the law at international conferences, in publications and expert commissions.

Lalive's main areas of practice include international dispute resolution in particular international arbitration (leading continental European firm in this according to Chambers Global; lawyers act as counsel) with counsel, experts, and arbitrators in complex international disputes; domestic litigation (including freezing of assets and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards); general corporate and business law with a wide range of services to Swiss and foreign clients on corporate, commercial, banking and finance law matters; international projects (contractual and regulatory framework advice for large-scale domestic and international projects, with particular expertise in the fields of construction, infrastructure, energy and telecommunications); public international law, including advice to states and international organizations on international boundaries, state responsibility, state successions and international administrative law; and international and economic criminal law, including cross border white collar crime; mutual legal assistance in criminal matters; tracing and recovery of assets; compliance and investigation relating to anti-terrorism, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws and regulations.