Pierre-Yves Gunter is co-head of the arbitration practice at Bär & Karrer.

He has been acting in the field of international commercial arbitration since 1991. Pierre-Yves Gunter has extensive experience as Counsel and Arbitrator in the fields of agency, sales, distribution, joint-venture, construction and complex projects, oil & gas, telecommunications and IT, intellectual property, pharmaceutical, real estate, hotel management, commodity and international trade as well as corporate/post M&A. He also regularly acts before state courts for litigation cases.

He is a board member of the Swiss Arbitration Center and previously served as a co-chair of the international arbitration committee of the American Bar Association (section of international law and practice) and is a former board member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), where he also was part of the rules revision committee.

• Co-counsel in an ICC gas arbitration case.
• Co-counsel in an ICC arbitration case in the automotive sector.
• Co-counsel in an UNCITRAL arbitration case concerning non-solicitation issues.
• Co-counsel in an ICC arbitration case concerning an international gas sales contract and gas price review.
• President of the Arbitral Tribunal in two parallel ICC arbitration cases concerning a design-build construction project in Latin America.
• President of an ICC Arbitral Tribunal in a dispute concerning the development of a large industrial plant.
• President of an LCIA Arbitral Tribunal in a dispute over a share purchase agreement in the renewable energy sector.
• President of two consolidated Swiss Rules arbitration cases concerning a dispute between shareholders.
• President of a Lebanese Arbitration Center case relating to a dispute over a subordination agreement relating to a telecom operator in the Middle East.
• President of an ICC arbitration case relating to the construction of highways in Eastern Africa.
• Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration case relating to a large industrial project in Eastern Europe.
• Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration case relating to a large construction project in North Africa.
• Co-arbitrator in an ICC arbitration case relating to a construction dispute in the Middle East.

• Partner at Bär & Karrer (since 2017)
• Partner at a Swiss law firm (1999-2016)
• Associate at two Swiss law firms (1995-1999)
• Associate at Clifford Chance (1993-1995)
• Associate at a Swiss law firm (1991-1993)
• LL.M. Harvard (1991)
• Neuchâtel University Law School (Law Degree, summa cum laudae, 1987)
• Teaching Assistant at Neuchâtel University Law School

• ICCA
• LCIA
• International Bar Association (IBA)
• American Bar Association (ABA)
• Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
• Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)