The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre has appointed Domitille Baizeau and Victor Dawes as Co-Chairs and Thomas Walsh and Huawei Sun as Vice-Chairs, all effective 1 July 2026.
Lalive secured a victory for the Republic of Panama in an ICSID investment arbitration brought by Banesco, with the tribunal rejecting all claims and ordering the claimant to pay a significant portion of Panama's legal
Lalive represent Canadian mining company Lupaka Gold Corp. in ICSID successful arbitration proceedings against the Republic of Peru. The context Marking the first decision of this kind for Latin America, the tribunal held that the
Lenz & Staehelin successfully represented an estate composed by 19 heirs of former shareholders from a Libyan company as defendant in proceedings before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. The context In connection with the matter, Libya
In January 2025, Laurent Killias (pictured left) and Thomas Legler (pictured right), Pestalozzi’s former heads of arbitration respectively in Zurich and Geneva, have left the firm to found Killias & Legler, a new disputes-specialised boutique.
Homburger represented Clariant on an arbitration case win before the SIX Court of Arbitration. The company stood against SIX Exchange Regulation on ad hoc disclosure matters. The context On February 28, 2025, the Court of Arbitration of
Lalive secured a US $330 million victory for subsidiaries of GreenX Metals (previously known as Prairie Mining) in international arbitration proceedings against the Republic of Poland under both the Australia-Poland bilateral investment treaty and the Energy
Homburger filed an application with the Swiss Federal Supreme Court on behalf of U.S. Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles to set aside an arbitral award by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Homburger team
Credit Suisse’s Additional Tier 1 (“AT1”) bondholders can now take action against Switzerland for expropriation, by bringing investment treaty claims, holding the Swiss state accountable for breaching its international investment agreements when it wrote the
Appointments
Arbitration
Nadia Ohlhoff-Smahi Vice-President of the International Arbitration Commission AIJA
Nadia Ohlhoff-Smahi has been appointed Vice-President of the AIJA International Arbitration Commission with effect from 25 August 2023. Nadia is a senior associate in the Geneva office of Lenz & Staehelin, where she practices in the areas
