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
Ranked as Arbitration Future Leader, Non Partner
Lexology, 2025
“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, 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, 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, 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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