Riccardo Loschi

Senior Associate, Zurich

+41 58 105 2000

rloschi@lalive.law

Riccardo Loschi

Riccardo’s practice focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration, as well as arbitration-related court proceedings. He represents clients in complex, high-value disputes across various sectors – including energy, space, construction, and finance – and advises them on commercial contracts, foreign investments, national security, as well as environmental and regulatory matters.

Riccardo lectures at the World Trade Institute and serves as a board member of the Space Arbitration Association and Coordinator of the Swiss Chapter of the Italian Arbitration Association below 40.

Previously, Riccardo worked as a research assistant to Professors George A. Bermann and Kabir Duggal (2019–2020) and served as Managing Editor of Columbia FDI Perspectives, a policy-oriented series on foreign investment published by Columbia University (2020–2022).

Recognition

“The LALIVE team was stellar…Riccardo Loschi [was] unfailingly well prepared.”

GAR 100, 2025

Recent publications

The Role of Domestic Law in the Resolution of Investment Disputes
RICCARDO LOSCHI
In: Elgar Encyclopaedia of International Economic Law, January 2025

Switzerland signs the Artemis Accords: What Next for the Swiss Space Sector 
RICCARDO LOSCHI, MATTIAS SCHERER
In: LALIVE Insights, 2024 

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

Recent conferences

Bocconi University - Business and Investment Law of African Countries
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Role: Speaker
Milan, 2 April 2025

The Space Arbitration Association and AIA below 40 - Managing Disputes in the Space Sector
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Role: Moderator and Organiser
Milan, 15 October 2024

The Geoeconomics Society in collaboration with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs - Helsinki Geoeconomics Week 2024
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Role: Speaker
Helsinki, 12 August 2024

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Current professional memberships

  • Swiss Chapter Coordinator, The Italian Arbitration Association below 40
  • Board Member, Space Arbitration Association
  • Member (Arbitration and Space Committees), International Bar Association
  • Member, ASA below 40

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

  • Public Policy Analysis Certificate, The London School of Economics (94%), 2024
  • 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), 2016
  • Certificate of Foreign Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014
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