Arbitration

Bär & Karrer represents clients in commercial arbitrations and related court and enforcement proceedings. We act in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations governed by Swiss or foreign law. We are experienced in proceedings administered by major arbitral institutions, including the ICC, the Swiss Chambers of Commerce, WIPO, LCIA, the Vienna Center, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, AAA/IDCR, and CAS.

The members of our arbitration team are ranked among the best arbitration practitioners in Switzerland and Europe. Our members regularly serve as party-appointed arbitrators, sole arbitrators, and chairpersons of arbitral tribunals, as well as mediators. Partners of the firm are also active members of executive bodies of arbitral institutions (such as the Swiss Chambers). In addition they lecture on arbitration in LL.M. programs and specialized programs such as the courses of the Swiss Arbitration Academy.

The quality, size, and experience of our international arbitration team allow us to handle large and complex cases. We regularly act in cases involving international acquisitions, joint ventures, privatizations, R&D, technology transfers, financing, sales of goods, commodity trading, sports arbitration, oil and gas concessions, and access to networks.

We assisted MasterCard in prevailing in its dispute with FIFA concerning sponsorship rights for the period leading up to the World Cups 2010 and 2014, forcing FIFA to pay damages to Mastercard in excess of USD 90 million. In another case, we successfully recovered damages for a client following a dispute over an important licensing agreement in the pharmaceutical industry.

 

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