Laura Azaria

Partner, Geneva

+41 58 105 2000

lazaria@lalive.law

Laura Azaria

Laura specialises in both international arbitration and litigation. She has extensive experience with disputes, particularly those arising out of infrastructure and construction projects, sales, distribution, joint venture and shareholders agreements, as well as M&A transactions and technology-related disputes, including in relation to blockchain technology and smart contracts.

She also routinely represents clients in set aside proceedings before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, as well as recognition and enforcement proceedings.

Recognition

Arbitration Future Leader
Lexology Index, Arbitration, Non-Partners, 2025

Arbitration Future Leader
Who’s Who Legal, Non-Partners, 2024

Recent publications

Chapter 17: FIDIC Contracts and Swiss Law
BERND EHLE, SAM MOSS, LAURA AZARIA
In: Friedrich Jakob Rosenfeld and Franco Ferrari (eds), The FIDIC Conditions of Contract and Domestic Construction Law: A Guide for Global Dispute Resolution, 2025, pp. 377-394

You Won! Now What? How to Enforce Awards Against States in Switzerland
LAURA AZARIA CHRISTIAN EXNER, ANTON VALLÉLIAN
In: ASA – Swiss Arbitration Association Bulletin 2/2025, published by Wolters Kluwer: International Arbitration & Mediation, June 2025

Challenging Investment Treaty Awards in Switzerland: Mission (Almost) Impossible? A review of the Swiss Supreme Court decisions rendered over the period 2019-2024
MATTHIAS SCHERER, CATHERINE A. KUNZ, LAURA AZARIA
In: 42 ASA Bulletin 4/2024 (December)

Recent conferences

Basel Winter Arbitration School - 2026
LAURA AZARIA, Role: Speaker, Enforcement of arbitral awards
Basel, 4 February 2026

Israeli Bar Association - International Mediation Certificate Course
LAURA AZARIA, Role: Speaker, WIPO Mediation
Webinar, 19 January 2026

Israeli Institute of Commercial Arbitration - Tel Aviv Arbitration Week
LAURA AZARIA, Role: Speaker, Document Production in International Arbitration and Cross-Border Enforcement of Arbitral Awards
Tel Aviv, 28 October 2025

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Current professional memberships

  • Member of the Organizing Committee of the Geneva International Legal Association (GILA) and Geneva International Legal Week (GILW)
  • Ambassador of Tel Aviv Arbitration Week (TLVAW)
  • Member of the Executive Committee of Columbia Alumni in Arbitration
  • Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)’s Ambassador for Israel
  • Member of the Geneva Bar Association
  • Member of the Swiss Federation of Lawyers
  • Member of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
  • Member of ASA below 40
  • Member of ArbitralWomen

Career history

  • Partner, LALIVE, Geneva, 2026 – present
  • Counsel, LALIVE, Geneva, 2022 – 2025
  • Associate, LALIVE, Geneva, 2014 – 2021
  • Research Assistant to Professor George Bermann, Columbia Law School, New York, 2013 – 2014
  • Associate, Eversheds, Geneva, 2012 – 2013
  • Trainee, Eversheds, Geneva, 2010 – 2012

Academic qualifications

  • LLM, Columbia Law School (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 2013 – 2014
  • Certificate of Advanced Studies in Legal Professions, University of Geneva, 2011
  • Master of Laws in Economic Law, University of Geneva, 2010
  • Bachelor of Laws, University of Geneva, 2009
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