Bernd Ehle is a partner of LALIVE in Geneva. He specialises in international arbitration and has acted as counsel and arbitrator in numerous administered and ad hoc international arbitral proceedings governed by various procedural and substantive laws. He is experienced in disputes involving the main aspects of commercial transactions, in particular disputes relating to joint ventures, M&A, distribution and agency agreements, and projects in the construction, telecommunications and energy sectors, as well as in the sports industry. He also represents parties in Swiss court proceedings related to arbitration. Dr Ehle acts as co-chair of the Geneva Group of ASA (Swiss Arbitration Association) and is a committee member of the European Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). He is also a member of a number of international arbitration associations, including DIS, ArbAut and LCIA, and a board member of the German-Swiss Lawyers’ Association (DSJV). Before joining LALIVE, Dr Ehle practiced in corporate and commercial law, litigation, and EU law in Germany with Graf von Westphalen, in Freiburg, and Ehle & Schiller, in Cologne. He studied law at the Universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg in Germany, and at the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International Studies (IUHEI) in Switzerland. He passed his First State examination in Heidelberg in 1996 and his Second State examination in Freiburg in 1998. Bernd Ehle holds an LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, USA, and a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.