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"The team is active on high-profile and complex disputes work."
Client in Chambers Europe 2015
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"The rates are fair and we had a very positive experience."
Client in Chambers Europe 2016
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"This excellent litigation and arbitration practice provides top shelf advice combined with excellent availability."
Legal 500 2013
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"Great experience of cross-border matters."
Chambers Europe 2016
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"Best in class."
Legal 500 2018
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"Outstanding practice for both arbitration and litigation with a presence across Switzerland."
Chambers Europe 2015
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"A very skilled team. "
Legal 500 2017
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"The firm offers the perfect package of quality, diversity and personal contact."
Chambers Europe 2016
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"The team has great analytical skills."
Chambers Europe 2018
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"Stellar bench that excels in all areas of dispute resolution, including sports arbitration."
Chambers Europe 2016
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"Excellent legal technical expertise."
Chambers Europe 2018
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.
Members of our arbitration team 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.
- Party representation as counsel in arbitration proceedings
- Chairman, co-arbitrator or sole arbitrator
- Counsel in the enforcement or challenging of arbitral awards and in preliminary measures supporting arbitration proceedings
- Mediator or counsel in mediation
Key Contact

Daniel Hochstrasser
Partner

Pierre-Yves Gunter
Partner
Team Leaders

Michele Bernasconi
Partner

Aurélie Conrad Hari
Partner

Andrea Gamba
Partner

Nadja Jaisli Kull
Partner

Dr. Cesare Jermini
Partner

Alexandra C. Johnson
Partner

Dr. Andreas D. Länzlinger
Partner

Saverio Lembo
Partner

Matthew T. Reiter
Partner

Phyllis Scholl
Partner

Prof. Dr. Markus Schott
Partner

Tina Wüstemann
Partner

Anne Valérie Julen Berthod
Counsel

Laura Widmer
Counsel
Team Members

Martina Athanas
Associate

Dr. Mercédeh Azeredo da Silveira
Associate

Lea Bollhalder
Associate

Romana Brueggemann
Associate

Simone Burlet-Fuchs
Associate

Luca Castiglioni
Associate

Cinzia Catelli
Associate

Marie-Laure Chèvre
Trainee

Salome Eichenberger
Associate

Elena Furlanetto
Trainee

Dr. Alain Grieder
Associate

Dr. Pascal Hachem
Associate

Andri Halter
Trainee

Dr. Roman Huber
Associate

Franziska Hügli
Trainee

Dominic Hägler
Associate

Gëzim Ilazi
Trainee

Julia Jung-Utzinger
Associate

Jonas Krull
Legal Employee

Sarah Mahmud
Associate

Anya Marinkovich
Associate

Marianna Nerushay
Trainee

Maylis Noth
Associate

Dr. Kaspar Projer
Associate

Adeline Burrus-Robin
Associate

Andrea Roth
Associate

Dr. Nina Sauerwein
Associate

Désirée A. Schreyer
Associate

Samira Studer
Trainee

Predrag Sunaric
Trainee

Luca Tarzia
Associate

Gabriela Wermelinger
Associate

Raphael Wyss
Legal Employee