Hélène Taberlet

Senior Associate, Geneva

+41 58 105 2000

English

Hélène specialises in international commercial and investment arbitration, and has experience in a number of sectors, including energy, construction and engineering. She acts as counsel and administrative secretary in arbitrations under a variety of procedural rules, including the ICC, ICSID and LCIA Arbitration Rules, in disputes arising from share purchases, joint ventures and large projects.

Before joining LALIVE, Hélène was Senior Legal Counsel at a Geneva-based international energy company, where she managed and oversaw pre-contentious matters and disputes and provided legal support for all oil and gas trading activities.

Recognition

“The LALIVE team was stellar…Hélène Taberlet [was] unfailingly well prepared.”

GAR 100, 2025

Recent publications

The IBA Task Force on Privilege in International Arbitration: Taking on the “Pick and Mix” Approach
HELENE TABERLET, ISABELLA CANNATÀ
In: Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 15 June 2024

United Kingdom Update: Kabab-Ji SAL (Lebanon) v Kout Food Group (Kuwait) [2021] UKSC 48
EDEN JARDINE, HÉLÈNE TABERLET
In: Young ITA Newsletter, Vol. 3, Issue 1 – Winter 2022

Recent conferences

Swiss Arbitration Academy - Introduction to aspects of corruption in international arbitration
HéLèNE TABERLET, Role: Speaker, Introduction to aspects of corruption in international arbitration
Geneva, 17 November 2024

ASA below 40 Seminar - Trust Me, I’m an Expert – Working with Experts in International Arbitration
HéLèNE TABERLET, Role: Speaker, Trust Me, I’m an Expert – Working with Experts in International Arbitration
Bern, 27 September 2024

Member of ArbitralWomen
Member of ASA below 40
Member of WISTA Switzerland

Career history

Senior Associate, LALIVE, Geneva, 2024 – present
Associate, LALIVE, Geneva, 2021 – 2023
Senior Legal Counsel, Philia SA, Geneva, 2019 – 2021
Legal Counsel, Philia SA, Geneva, 2017 – 2019
Associate, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, 2016 – 2017
Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills, Paris, 2014 – 2016
Trainee Solicitor, Herbert Smith Freehills, London, 2012 – 2014

Academic qualifications

Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, BPP University, 2012
Bachelor of Laws, London School of Economics, 2011

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Practices

Arbitration - International Commercial
Arbitration - Investment Treaty
Public International Law

Sectors

Construction & Infrastructure
Energy
Mining
Technology

Languages

English
French

Nationality

British
Swiss

Admission

Switzerland (foreign lawyer), 2021
England & Wales, 2014