L’état de droit et les avocats à l’épreuve des sanctions contre la Russie
Sandrine Giroud, Grégoire Mangeat, Berem Brun 2023In: Anwalts Revue de l'avocat 2/2023, p. 63-68
“Formidable track record advising both states and investors”
LALIVE has long-standing experience in advising on public international law matters, including on international claims, state responsibility, state succession, international land and maritime boundaries, the law of international organisations, international trade regulations, sanctions, human rights and state contracts.
The firm’s public international law specialists have represented clients on numerous occasions before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, the administrative tribunals of the United Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). They have acted as counsel, advisers and adjudicators in a variety of international claims proceedings relating to World War II and to conflicts in the Middle-East, the Balkans and Africa.
As part of the firm’s investment arbitration practice, LALIVE provides advice to governments in the negotiation of investment treaties and the implementation of investment policies more generally, as well as to investors on how to structure their investments to ensure effective protection.
LALIVE also represents clients in international criminal law proceedings. The firm has advised and acted on behalf of governments and non-governmental entities in relation to matters such as war crimes, terrorism, genocide and crimes against humanity. One of the firm’s partners is admitted to plead before the International Criminal Court.
In: Anwalts Revue de l'avocat 2/2023, p. 63-68
Quick Answers on State Immunity, Kluwer Law International (online), December 2022
Presentation at the Symposium on Supranational Responses to Corruption, 29 April 2022
Quick Answers, Kluwer Law International (online), September 2021
In: LALIVE Blog, 4 May 2021
STEP International News Digest/LALIVE Blog, 15 March 2021
Zurich/St Gallen: Dike
Quick Answers, Kluwer Law International, December 2020
Quick Answers, Kluwer Law International, December 2020
Quick Answers, Kluwer Law International, December 2020
Anwalts Revue de l'avocat 10/2020, pp. 390-395
In: Anwalts Revue de l’avocat 9/2020, pp. 357-366
In: Stephen Jagusch QC and Odysseas G Repousis, (Contributing Eds.), Getting the Deal Through – Sovereign Immunity 2020, pp. 61-67
Helbing Lichtenhahn, 1st Edition, 2020
LALIVE Blog, June 2020
International Law Office (ILO), Private Client & Offshore Services, 28 May 2020
LALIVE Blog, 17 April 2020
International Law Office (ILO), Private Client & Offshore Services, 9 April 2020
Rosemont Art Advisory Newsletter (www.rosemont-int.com), 27 March 2020
In: LawInside (www.lawinside.ch), 21 March 2020
International Law Office (ILO), Private Client & Offshore Services, 5 March 2020
LALIVE Blog, March 2020
LALIVE Blog, June 2019
Indian Journal of Arbitration Law, Vol. 8, Issue 2, pp. 83-96, January 2020
The Journal of the Dispute Resolution Section of the International Bar Association, May 2019 Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 81-96
International Law Office (ILO), Private Client & Offshore Services, 29 August 2019
In: Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) Bulletin, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 295-313
New York State Bar Association – International Law Practicum, Vol. 31, Issue 2, 2018, pp. 82-86
In: Tai-Heng Cheng and Odysseas G Repousis, (Contributing Eds.), Getting the Deal Through – Sovereign Immunity 2018, pp. 48-52
In: LawInSport.com, 2018
In: Société Française pour le Droit International, Actes du Colloque de Lille, La souveraineté pénale de l’Etat au XXIe siècle, Pedone, Paris, 2018, pp. 115-145
Zeitschrift für Europarecht, Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung (ZfRV), Heft 6, 2018, pp. 244-258
Zeitschrift für das gesamte Lebensmittelrecht - ZLR (German Journal of Food Law), Heft (Issue) 3, 2018, pp. 315-335
Anwalts Revue de l’avocat 6/7/2017, pp. 267-270
Journal of World Investment & Trade, Vol. 18, 2017, pp. 755-765
In: La Cour pénale internationale et les pays arabes, actes du colloque international de Beyrouth, 26 et 27 November 2015, Beyrouth, Editions de l'Université de Saint Joseph de Beyrouth / CEDROMA, 2017, pp. 261-271
In: Manuel Arroyo (Ed), Arbitration in Switzerland: The Practitioner's Guide, Kluwer Law International, 1st Edition (2013, pp. 127-140), 2nd Edition (2017)
In: Lein et al. (Eds.), Collective Redress in Europe – Why and How?, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, 2015, pp. 481-503.
In: Timothy J. Feighery, Christopher S. Gibson, Trevor M. Rajah (Eds.), War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Designing Compensation After Conflict, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 51-80
In: Timothy J. Feighery, Christopher S. Gibson, Trevor M. Rajah (Eds.), War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission-Designing Compensation After Conflict, Oxford, 2015, pp. 135-184
In: Shaheeza Lalani and Rodrigo Polanco Lazo (Eds.), The Role of the State in Investor-State Arbitration, BRILL, NIJHOFF, Volume 3, pp. 1-13
In: Arthur W. Rovine (Ed.), Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation. The Fordham Papers 2013, Brill Nijhoff, 2014, pp. 109-122
Young Arbitration Review – YAR – Issue 17
International Law Office, Newsletter, July 2013
International Law Office, Newsletter, June 2013
IBA International Litigation News, April 2013, pp. 75-78
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In: Tobias Zuberbühler, Christoph Müller, Philipp Habegger (Eds.), Swiss Rules of International Arbitration, Commentary, Schulthess, Zurich, 2013
ASA Bull. 4/2012, Vol. 28, pp. 758-766
In: D. Arias and L. Schaner (Eds.), IBA Arbitration Guide, 2012 (21 pages)
International Enforcement Law Reporter, Vol. 27, Issue 4, April 2011, pp. 684-686
ICSID Review, Foreign Investment Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall 2010, pp. 498-503
IBA International Litigation News, September 2010, pp. 39-41
Le Temps, rubrique Eclairage, 6 May 2010
In: M. Mader/A. Rothenbühler (Eds.), How to Challenge Illegitimate Debt: Theory and Legal Case Studies, Aktion Finanzplatz Schweiz, Basel, November 2009, pp. 97-102
In: Permanent Court of Arbitration (Ed.), Chapter 12, "Multiple Party Actions in International Arbitration", Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, pp. 297-323
In: Doak Bishop (Ed.), Enforcement of Arbitral Awards against Sovereigns, Juris Publishing, 2009
Journal of European Criminal Law, 2008, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 21-41
Journal of European Criminal Law, 2008, Vol. 3, pp. 49-62
WW&P Newsletter
Uluslararasi Suçlar ve Tarih, 2006, pp. 91-118
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Criminal Law Forum, 2006, Vol. 17, pp. 317-344
Uluslararasi Suçlar ve Tarih, Ankara, 2006, pp. 57-89
In: P. Zen-Ruffinen (Ed.), Du Monde pénal. Mélanges en l'honneur de Pierre-Henri Bolle, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel, 2006, pp. 193-204
Nordic Journal of International Law, 2005, Vol. 74, pp. 179-208
Journal of International Criminal Justice (JICJ), 2005, Vol. 3, pp. 790-797
In: Zuberbühler/ Müller/ Habegger (Editor[s]), Swiss Rules of International Arbitration, Commentary, Schulthess
In: J. Verhoeven (Ed.), Le droit international des immunités : contestation ou consolidation ?, Larcier, Brussels, 2004, pp. 219-251
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In: Leckie (Ed.), Returning Home: Housing and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons, Ardsley N.Y., Transnational Publishers, 2003, pp. 225-242
Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, 2003, Vol. 296, pp. 259-393
In: Henzelin/Roth (Eds.), Le droit pénal à l'épreuve de l'internationalisation, Paris, Geneva, Brussels, LGDJ, Georg, Bruylant, 2002, pp. 69-118
Revue suisse de droit international et européen (RSDIE), 2002, Vol. 12, pp. 179-212
Revue Pénale Suisse (RPS), 2002, Vol. 120, pp. 249-264
Revue générale de droit international public (RGDIP), 2002, Vol. 107, pp. 819-854
ASA Bulletin 1/2005, pp. 116-118
Revue pénale suisse (RPS), 2001, Vol. 119, pp. 221-238
Geneva Law Faculty, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basle, Geneva, Munich, Bruylant, Brussels, 2000, 527 pages, ISBN Helbing & Lichtenhahn: 3-7190-1952-7, ISBN Bruylant: 2-8027-1455-4
American Journal of International Law, 1998, Vol. 92, pp. 339 ss
In: Pellandini (Ed.), Répression nationale des violations du droit international humanitaire (systèmes romano-germaniques) : rapport de la réunion d'experts, 23-25 September 1997, Geneva, ICRC, 1998, pp. 84-201
Finnish Yearbook of International Law, 1994, Vol. 5, pp. 1 ss
In: Dominice/Patry/Reymond (Eds.), Etudes de Droit international en l'honneur de Pierre Lalive, Basle, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1993, pp. 345-358
LALIVE Partner, Nicolas Ollivier, discussed the contemplated UK-Swiss bilateral agreement on financial services at the BIICL webinar on Swiss-UK Bilateral Relations outside EU Membership – alongside keynote speaker, his Excellency Mr. Alexandre Fasel, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom.
LALIVE associate Pierre-Yves Marro appointed as Privatdozent by Zurich University
LALIVE promotes in Geneva, Zurich and London
Sandrine Giroud, Veijo Heiskanen, and Anton Vallélian contribute to the third edition of Sovereign Immunity by Lexology
Landmark decision by Swiss Federal Supreme Court regarding Crimea awards
LALIVE opens in London
Protection of the environment in international courts: recent decisions open new avenues for mass claim processes
The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh: Arbitration meets human rights
LALIVE appointed to act for Qatari nationals by The Qatar National Committee for Human Rights
Press coverage: Sylvain Savolainen interviewed on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the Swiss Responsible Business Initiative
LALIVE promotes Thomas Widmer and Laura Halonen to Counsel
Compact but highly distinguished Geneva-headquartered firm with a renowned presence in the PIL sphere. Often acts in investor-state arbitrations under the auspices of ICSID and UNCITRAL and is particularly active handling disputes in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Offers substantial strength in sovereign immunity and human rights matters, as well as adept guidance on the laws governing international organisations. In the latter half of 2018, the firm expanded its global footprint with the opening of a new office in London.
Enthused sources say: "They are very prudent and reliable lawyers, always at one's disposal, with an unbelievable ability to work through complex matters in the shortest time."
Another interviewee commented: "They provide a top-notch performance. I value their pragmatic and strategic advice. They have serious academic chops, but they are nevertheless extremely practical."
Chambers Global, Public International Law, Global-wide, 2019
Compact but highly distinguished Geneva-based firm with a renowned presence in the PIL sphere. Often acts in investor-state arbitrations under the auspices of ICSID and UNCITRAL and is particularly active handling disputes in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Offers substantial strength in sovereign immunity and human rights matters. "They are brilliant lawyers doing excellent work both on written pleadings and hearings. They are very responsive as well." Sources recognise the team as "highly skilled" and "very active" in the PIL field.
Chambers Global, Public International Law, 2018
Switzerland-based firm particularly noted for its formidable track record in arbitrations for both sovereign states and investor clients. Has significant knowledge of UNCITRAL and ICSID proceedings and is highly regarded for representations in Europe. The boutique team is acclaimed for its specialised involvement in this sector, with sources highlighting its "very strong presence in PIL dispute resolution." Commentators say: "They are highly experienced in investment disputes and international arbitration. We like the firm as it is responsive and has brilliant and efficient lawyers with a proven track record in investment disputes."
Chambers Global, Public International Law: Global-wide (Band 4), 2017
Switzerland-headquartered boutique active on a raft of investment treaty disputes. Formidable track record advising both states and investors in a broad range of sectors. Significant knowledge of UNCITRAL and ICSID proceedings.
Chambers Global 2016, Public International Law
Predominantly recognised for its noteworthy investment arbitration practice. Also advises on treaty interpretation, sovereign immunity, and Law of the Sea. Regularly appear in front of international courts and tribunals including ICSID and the ICJ.
"Fantastic firm with a great great reputation."
Chambers Global, Public International Law (Band 4) - Global-wide, 2015
(Lalive) has continued to prioritise public international law. Finnish-born Veijo Heiskanen is one of the names to know in this area. He has extensive experience in mass claims that can follow international conflict, having worked as counsel, adviser and arbitrator for the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, the UN Compensation Commission, the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts Switzerland, the UN Property Claims Commission in Kosovo and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission.
Global Arbitration Review, 2013, GAR 30: 16th worldwide