Matthias Scherer is a partner of LALIVE in Geneva. He specializes in international litigation and arbitration, and commercial contracts, advising corporate and private clients as well as State parties. He has acted as counsel in more than 100 arbitration and ADR proceedings under various rules (ICC, ICSID, Swiss Rules, LCIA, UNCITRAL, etc.) and subject to both civil and common law procedural and substantive laws. He is regularly appointed as arbitrator by parties and major arbitration institutions (ICC, Swiss Chambers, LCIA, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce). Mr Scherer is experienced in contracts disputes involving most aspects of commercial transactions, with a particular emphasis on joint ventures, shareholders, M&A, energy, construction and engineering, distribution and State-investor disputes. Mr Scherer has featured in the Who’s Who International Arbitration since its inception in 2005 and was selected in 2006 as one of the “45 leading arbitrators under 45”. He has published extensively in this field. He is the editor of the journal of the Swiss Arbitration Association, the ASA Bulletin. Mr Scherer is vice-chair of the International Bar Association’s arbitration committee and immediate past member of the arbitration committee of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce (administering arbitrations subject to the Swiss Rules). He is a member of numerous professional associations (including ASA, DIS – German Institute of Arbitration – and LCIA) and panels, including the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (Vienna International Arbitral Centre, VIAC), and the Court of international commercial arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania.