Riccardo Loschi

Senior Associate, Zurich

+41 58 105 2000

rloschi@lalive.law

Riccardo Loschi

Riccardo’s practice focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration and arbitration-related court proceedings. He represents clients in complex, high-value disputes involving foreign investments, M&A transactions, environmental and administrative permits, and national security issues in various sectors, including the energy, space, construction, and financial sectors.

He has experience in arbitrations brought under the UNCITRAL, ICSID, ICC, LCIA, CAM and Swiss Arbitration Rules and governed by both civil and common law.

A member of the Organizing Committee of the Space Arbitration Association, Riccardo regularly speaks at international conferences and publishes about space law and arbitration.

Riccardo is the former managing editor (2020 – 2022) of Columbia FDI Perspectives, a foreign investment policy-oriented series published by Columbia University.

Recent publications

Settlement of ISDS disputes: Can State Avoid Arbitration?
ISABELLA CANNATÀ, RICCARDO LOSCHI
In: Columbia FDI Perspectives No. 357, 2023

Maximizing the Economic Benefits Produced by International Commercial Arbitration: Beyond “Pro-Arbitration” Policies (Ch. 92)
RICCARDO LOSCHI
In: Pro-Arbitration Revisited: A Tribute to Professor George Bermann (Juris), 2023

Causation, Quantum, and “Rolled-up claims”: English Commercial Court Partially Sets Aside Investment Award against Kazakhstan
RICCARDO LOSCHI, ELEANOR SCOGINGS
In: LALIVE Blog, 11 December 2020

Recent conferences

The Changing Concept of National Security and the International Economic Law System
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Panellist
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, 26 October 2023

Due diligence and good faith obligations for commercial space actors
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Panellist
74th International Astronautical Conference, Baku, 6 October 2023

Procedural Innovations in International Arbitration: Techniques, Use and Trends
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Moderator
Italian Arbitration Day, Milan, 3 July 2023

Current memberships

  • Member of the Organizing Committee of the Space Arbitration Association (SAA)
  • Member of the Italian Arbitration Association (AIA) below 40
  • Member of ASA below 40
  • Member of the American Bar Association (ABA)
  • Member of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL)

Career history

  • Senior Associate, LALIVE, Zurich, 2024 – present
  • Associate, LALIVE, Geneva and Zurich, 2020 – 2023
  • Research Assistant to Prof. George A. Bermann, Columbia Law School, New York, 2019 – 2020
  • Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Milan, 2017 – 2019
  • Trainee, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Milan, 2016 – 2017

Academic qualifications

  • Strategic Space Law Course, McGill University, 2022
  • LLM, Columbia Law School (Parker Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 2020
  • Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza (Italian Law Degree), Bocconi University (summa cum laude), 2015
  • Certificate of Foreign Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014

Practices

  • Arbitration - International Commercial
  • Arbitration - Investment Treaty
  • Public International Law

Sectors

  • Construction & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Mining
  • Sports
  • Technology

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish
  • Italian

Nationality

  • Italian

Admission

  • New York, 2022
  • Italy, 2018