Firm Description

LALIVE is an international law firm, with offices in Geneva and Zurich, and in Doha (LALIVE IN QATAR LLP), renowned for its expertise in international arbitration, including international commercial arbitration and investor-State arbitration.

LALIVE comprises lawyers from a dozen countries who together speak more than ten languages and whose legal expertise covers several key jurisdictions. The firm’s arbitration specialists represent clients on a global basis, in particular in Europe, Africa and the Middle East and in South America, and handle disputes involving a wide range of international contracts. Relevant industries include energy, construction and infrastructure, telecommunications, life sciences and biotechnology.

The firm’s lawyers have been involved as counsel and arbitrators in proceedings conducted in all the major arbitration venues throughout the world, and under the main international arbitration rules, including the rules of the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, Swiss Chambers (Swiss Rules of International Arbitration), LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration), AAA/ICDR (American Arbitration Association), CRCICA (Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration), DIAC (Dubai International Arbitration Centre), WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), IATA (International Air Transport Association) and CAS/TAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport). Several partners of the firm hold key positions in these institutions.

In international arbitration, LALIVE is ranked among the leading firms worldwide, including by Chambers, Legal 500 and Global Arbitration Review which consistently ranks the firm in the top ten of the 30 most prestigious international arbitration practices. In Switzerland, the firm has for many years been ranked in the first tier for dispute resolution.