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 conferences
Bocconi University - Business and Investment Law of African Countries
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Role: Speaker, Dispute Prevention and Risk Mitigation Strategies
Milan, 2 April 2025
The Space Arbitration Association and AIA below 40 - Managing Disputes in the Space Sector
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Role: Moderator and Organiser, Managing Disputes in the Space Sector
Milan, 15 October 2024
The Geoeconomics Society in collaboration with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs - Helsinki Geoeconomics Week 2024
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Role: Speaker, State Intervention in Strategic Transactions: National security and the rule of law
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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