Expertise
Practice Areas
von Segesser Law Offices offer legal services of the highest professional standard. Our firm stands for integrity in domestic and international dispute resolution and in the conduct of arbitration proceedings under a variety of legal systems in different parts of the world.
Arbitration
We have long standing and extensive experience ranging from general commercial arbitration to investment arbitration and trust arbitration. We represent clients as counsel or serve as arbitrators in arbitrations worldwide under ad hoc and institutional rules.
Mediation
We serve as mediators in both domestic and international commercial disputes under ad hoc or institutional mediation rules. We represent parties in mediation proceedings and support clients in the drafting of settlement agreements.
Legal Counsel
We provide comprehensive advice on all types of corporate, commercial and estate matters, both in Switzerland and internationally. We support clients in the establishment of legal structures and the drafting of corporate documents and commercial contracts of any type. We assist clients in estate and trust matters, including international inheritance litigation. We are specialists in art law.
Sectors
- Art and Cultural Heritage
- Banking & Finance
- Distributorship, Agency & Service Agreements
- Foundations & Philanthropy
- Infrastructure Projects
- Intellectual Property & Licensing
- Joint Ventures, Shareholders Agreements & Cooperations
- Manufacturing & Construction Projects
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Oil & Gas
- Sale & Purchase
- Sports & Entertainment
- Telecommunications
- Trust, Wills & Estate
in Legal Services
Publications
Swiss Rules of International Arbitration
Schütze, Institutional Arbitration, 2nd edition
ed. by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rolf A. Schütze
The Changing Legal Landscape of Arbitration in Switzerland
European Arbitration Review 2022
Global Arbitration Review, Law Business Research Ltd, November 2021
Arbitration World, 6th edition 2018
The Swiss Arbitration Law
ed. by Karyl Nairn QC and Jonathon Egerton-Peters
Thomson Reuters, London 2018
Arbitration World, 6th edition 2018
Swiss Rules of International Arbitration (Swiss Rules)
ed. by Karyl Nairn QC and Jonathon Egerton-Peters
Thomson Reuters, London 2018
Internationale Schweizerische Schiedsordnung
Schütze, Institutionelle Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, Kommentar 3. Auflage
ed. by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rolf A. Schütze
Arbitrating Energy Disputes
Arbitration in Switzerland: The Practitioner's Guide, 2nd edition
Arroyo (Ed.)
Kluwer (2018)
Arbitration of Trust Disputes
ASA Bulletin Volume 35, No. 1, 2017 (March), pp. 10-39
Arbitration at the Court
of Arbitration for Sport
www.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com
2016
Arbitrating Trust Disputes: Effect of the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and Their Recognition
Arbitration of Trust Disputes
ed. By S.I. Strong
Oxford International Arbitration Series 2016
Concise International Arbitration, 2nd edition
The Swiss Private International Law Act, Twelfth Chapter: International Arbitration
ed. by Professor Dr. Loukas Mistelis
Kluwer Law 2015
Arbitration World, International Series
5th edition 2015
The Swiss Arbitration Law
ed. by Karyl Nairn QC and Patrick Heneghan
Thomson Reuters, London 2015
Arbitration World, International Series
5th edition 2015
The Swiss Rules of Arbitration
ed. by Karyl Nairn QC and Patrick Heneghan
Thomson Reuters, London 2015
The Revised IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration
ASA Bulletin Volume 33, Issue 1, pp. 6-37
March 2015
International Encyclopaedia of Laws
Property and Trust Law – Switzerland
Suppl. 12 (2015)
Kluwer Law International
A step forward: addressing real and perceived obstacles to the arbitration of trust disputes
Trust & Trustees, Vol. 20, No. 1&2
February/March 2014, pp. 37-51
Interim Measures
International Arbitration in Switzerland
a Handbook for Practitioners
2nd ed., co-author, eds E Geisinger and N Voser
Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn
February 2013
Swiss and Swiss-based Arbitral Institutions
International Arbitration in Switzerland
a Handbook for Practitioners
2nd ed., co-author, eds E Geisinger and N Voser
Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn
February 2013
Comparison of Major Arbitration Rules
International Arbitration in Switzerland
a Handbook for Practitioners
2nd ed., co-author, eds E Geisinger and N Voser
Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn
February 2013
The 2012 Swiss Rules of International Arbitration: A Light Revision
News and Notes from the Institute for Transnational
Arbitration, Vol 26, No 4, Houston 2012
Equality of Information and Impartiality of Arbitrators – A comment on Adrian Mutu v Chelsea Football Club Ltd – Decision of the Swiss Federal
Tribunal of 10 June 2010
The Practice of Arbitration, Essays in Honour of Hans van Houtte
ed. by Patrick Wautelet/Thalia Kruger/Govert Coppens
Hart Publishing Oxford and Portland, Oregon 2012
Switzerland – The Leading Venue for International Arbitration
Global Legal Post
London 2012
Arbitration World, 4th edition 2012
The Swiss Arbitration Law
ed. by Karyl Nairn and Patrick Heneghan
European Lawyer, London 2012
Arbitration World, 4th edition 2012
The Swiss Rules of Arbitration
ed. by Karyl Nairn and Patrick Heneghan
European Lawyer, London 2012
Arbitration the Swiss way
Global Legal Post, July 2012
Article 3: Notice of Arbitration and Answer to Notice of Arbitration
Swiss Rules of International Arbitration: Commentary, 2nd edition
Zuberbühler, Muller & Habegger (Eds.)
Kluwer Law International / Schulthess, The Hague / Zurich (2012)
Article 4: Consolidation and Joinder
Swiss Rules of International Arbitration: Commentary, 2nd edition
Zuberbühler, Muller & Habegger (Eds.)
Kluwer Law International / Schulthess, The Hague / Zurich (2012)
Institutional vs. Ad Hoc Arbitration
International Arbitration in Switzerland: A Handbook for Practitioners
Kluwer Law International, 2nd edition
Kluwer Law International, The Hague (2012)
The Arbitration Agreement
International Arbitration in Switzerland: Kluwer Law International, 2nd edition
Kluwer Law International, The Hague (2012)
Swiss Supreme Court Sets Aside its First International Arbitral Award for Breach of Substantive Public Policy
Arbitration News: Newsletter of the International Bar Association Legal Practice Division, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp. 65-68, September 2012
The Impact of International Trade Sanctions on International Commercial Arbitration
The Arbitration Review: Switzerland Chapter
Global Arbitration Review (2012)
The Birth of Modern Arbitration
The 2011 Guide to Litigation & Dispute Resolution
in association with ICC, HKIAC and AAA
Switzerland chapter, p 57-60
A supplement to the International Financial Law
Review IFLR, May 2011
How Final is Final? National Court Approaches to Decisions on Challenges by Arbitral Institutions
International Arbitration Court Decisions, 3rd edition
Juris Publishing (2011)
Revised IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration
Revised version
adopted by the International Bar Association on 29 May 2010
ASA Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2010, pp 735‑752
International Encyclopaedia of Laws Property and Trust Law – Switzerland
Suppl. 12 (September 2010), Kluwer Law International
Dynamic Times for Dispute Resolution
The 2010 Guide to Dispute Resolution, in association
with ICC, HKIAC and AAA, Switzerland chapter
p 45–48; A supplement to the International Financial Law
Review IFLR, May 2010
Concise Commentary on International Arbitration Conventions, Laws and Rules
The Swiss Private International Law Act
Twelfth Chapter: International Arbitration
ed. by Professor Dr Loukas Mistelis
Kluwer Law February 2010
Arbitration World, 3rd edition 2010
Jurisdictional comparison
Swiss Rules of International Arbitration
ed. by J. William Rowley QC
The European Lawyer, London, June 2010
Arbitration World, 3rd edition 2010
Jurisdictional comparison
Commercial Arbitration in Switzerland
ed. by J. William Rowley QC
The European Lawyer, London, June 2010
Decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court on the Exemption of Arbitration Functions from VAT
ASA Bulletin Volume 27, No. 4, 2009
Vorsorgliche Massnahmen im internationalen Schiedsprozess
(Provisional and Protective Measures in International Arbitration)
25 ASA Bulletin 3/2007 (September), pp 473‑492
Arbitration World, 2nd edition 2006
Commercial Arbitration in Switzerland
ed. by J William Rowley QC
European Lawyer, London 2006
Arbitrating Pre-Closing Disputes in Merger and Acquisitions Transactions, Arbitration of Merger and Acquisition Disputes
ASA Special Series No. 24 (May 2005), pp 17‑54
Switzerland's New Federal Act on the International Transfer of Cultural Property: An Update and a Perspective from Collectors and the Art Trade, Art Antiquity and Law
Institute of Art Law, London, Volume X, Issue 2 (June 2005)
pp 175‑199
Judicial Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements: The Stay-Dismissal Dichotomy of FAA Section 3
34 Hofstra Law Review 565 (2005)
reprinted in The ICFAI Journal for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Hyderabad, India (2007)
Arbitration World, 1st edition 2004
Commercial Arbitration in Switzerland
ed. by J William Rowley QC
European Lawyer, London 2004
The New Swiss Rules of International Arbitration
The International Arbitration News of the American Bar Association
Vol. 4, No. 2, pp 21‑24 (2004)
Interim Measures
International Arbitration in Switzerland
A Handbook for Practitioners
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler / Blaise Stucki (eds.)
Kluwer Law International / Schulthess
The Hague / Zurich 2004, pp 69‑87
Witness Preparation in International Commercial Arbitration
ASA Bulletin Vol. 20, No. 2 (2002), pp 222‑228
A Selection of Issues under Swiss Law in the
Field of Artists, Collectors and Museums
International Academy of Estate and Trust Law
selected papers 1997 to 1999
Kluwer Law International 2001, pp 863‑896
Arbitrability in Estate and Trust Litigation
The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law
Kluwer Law International 2000, pp 21‑30
Das Schiedsgericht für nachrichtenlose Konten in der Schweiz (The Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland)
ASA Bulletin (1998), pp 252‑256
Disclosure Dilemma in Switzerland
Transcontinental Trusts, Monitor Press Ltd
Sudbury UK 1997, pp 275‑286
Die nennwertlose Aktie (The Non-par Value Stock)
Zurich 1972
Kluwer International Arbitration Blog
Reporter for Switzerland
ITA Board of Reporters for KluwerArbitration.com
Reporter for Switzerland
Swiss Rules of International Arbitration
Schütze, Institutional Arbitration, 2nd edition
ed. by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rolf A. Schütze
The Changing Legal Landscape of Arbitration in Switzerland
European Arbitration Review 2022
Global Arbitration Review, Law Business Research Ltd, November 2021
Arbitration World, 6th edition 2018
The Swiss Arbitration Law
ed. by Karyl Nairn QC and Jonathon Egerton-Peters
Thomson Reuters, London 2018
Arbitration World, 6th edition 2018
Swiss Rules of International Arbitration (Swiss Rules)
ed. by Karyl Nairn QC and Jonathon Egerton-Peters
Thomson Reuters, London 2018
Internationale Schweizerische Schiedsordnung
Schütze, Institutionelle Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, Kommentar 3. Auflage
ed. by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rolf A. Schütze
Arbitrating Energy Disputes
Arbitration in Switzerland: The Practitioner's Guide, 2nd edition
Arroyo (Ed.)
Kluwer (2018)
Arbitration of Trust Disputes
ASA Bulletin Volume 35, No. 1, 2017 (March), pp. 10-39
Arbitration at the Court
of Arbitration for Sport
www.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com
2016
Arbitrating Trust Disputes: Effect of the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and Their Recognition
Arbitration of Trust Disputes
ed. By S.I. Strong
Oxford International Arbitration Series 2016
Concise International Arbitration, 2nd edition
The Swiss Private International Law Act, Twelfth Chapter: International Arbitration
ed. by Professor Dr. Loukas Mistelis
Kluwer Law 2015
Arbitration World, International Series
5th edition 2015
The Swiss Arbitration Law
ed. by Karyl Nairn QC and Patrick Heneghan
Thomson Reuters, London 2015
Arbitration World, International Series
5th edition 2015
The Swiss Rules of Arbitration
ed. by Karyl Nairn QC and Patrick Heneghan
Thomson Reuters, London 2015
The Revised IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration
ASA Bulletin Volume 33, Issue 1, pp. 6-37
March 2015
International Encyclopaedia of Laws
Property and Trust Law – Switzerland
Suppl. 12 (2015)
Kluwer Law International
A step forward: addressing real and perceived obstacles to the arbitration of trust disputes
Trust & Trustees, Vol. 20, No. 1&2
February/March 2014, pp. 37-51
Interim Measures
International Arbitration in Switzerland
a Handbook for Practitioners
2nd ed., co-author, eds E Geisinger and N Voser
Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn
February 2013
Swiss and Swiss-based Arbitral Institutions
International Arbitration in Switzerland
a Handbook for Practitioners
2nd ed., co-author, eds E Geisinger and N Voser
Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn
February 2013
Comparison of Major Arbitration Rules
International Arbitration in Switzerland
a Handbook for Practitioners
2nd ed., co-author, eds E Geisinger and N Voser
Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn
February 2013
The 2012 Swiss Rules of International Arbitration: A Light Revision
News and Notes from the Institute for Transnational
Arbitration, Vol 26, No 4, Houston 2012
Equality of Information and Impartiality of Arbitrators – A comment on Adrian Mutu v Chelsea Football Club Ltd – Decision of the Swiss Federal
Tribunal of 10 June 2010
The Practice of Arbitration, Essays in Honour of Hans van Houtte
ed. by Patrick Wautelet/Thalia Kruger/Govert Coppens
Hart Publishing Oxford and Portland, Oregon 2012
Switzerland – The Leading Venue for International Arbitration
Global Legal Post
London 2012
Arbitration World, 4th edition 2012
The Swiss Arbitration Law
ed. by Karyl Nairn and Patrick Heneghan
European Lawyer, London 2012
Arbitration World, 4th edition 2012
The Swiss Rules of Arbitration
ed. by Karyl Nairn and Patrick Heneghan
European Lawyer, London 2012
Arbitration the Swiss way
Global Legal Post, July 2012
Article 3: Notice of Arbitration and Answer to Notice of Arbitration
Swiss Rules of International Arbitration: Commentary, 2nd edition
Zuberbühler, Muller & Habegger (Eds.)
Kluwer Law International / Schulthess, The Hague / Zurich (2012)
Article 4: Consolidation and Joinder
Swiss Rules of International Arbitration: Commentary, 2nd edition
Zuberbühler, Muller & Habegger (Eds.)
Kluwer Law International / Schulthess, The Hague / Zurich (2012)
Institutional vs. Ad Hoc Arbitration
International Arbitration in Switzerland: A Handbook for Practitioners
Kluwer Law International, 2nd edition
Kluwer Law International, The Hague (2012)
The Arbitration Agreement
International Arbitration in Switzerland: Kluwer Law International, 2nd edition
Kluwer Law International, The Hague (2012)
Swiss Supreme Court Sets Aside its First International Arbitral Award for Breach of Substantive Public Policy
Arbitration News: Newsletter of the International Bar Association Legal Practice Division, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp. 65-68, September 2012
The Impact of International Trade Sanctions on International Commercial Arbitration
The Arbitration Review: Switzerland Chapter
Global Arbitration Review (2012)
The Birth of Modern Arbitration
The 2011 Guide to Litigation & Dispute Resolution
in association with ICC, HKIAC and AAA
Switzerland chapter, p 57-60
A supplement to the International Financial Law
Review IFLR, May 2011
How Final is Final? National Court Approaches to Decisions on Challenges by Arbitral Institutions
International Arbitration Court Decisions, 3rd edition
Juris Publishing (2011)
Revised IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration
Revised version
adopted by the International Bar Association on 29 May 2010
ASA Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2010, pp 735‑752
International Encyclopaedia of Laws Property and Trust Law – Switzerland
Suppl. 12 (September 2010), Kluwer Law International
Dynamic Times for Dispute Resolution
The 2010 Guide to Dispute Resolution, in association
with ICC, HKIAC and AAA, Switzerland chapter
p 45–48; A supplement to the International Financial Law
Review IFLR, May 2010
Concise Commentary on International Arbitration Conventions, Laws and Rules
The Swiss Private International Law Act
Twelfth Chapter: International Arbitration
ed. by Professor Dr Loukas Mistelis
Kluwer Law February 2010
Arbitration World, 3rd edition 2010
Jurisdictional comparison
Swiss Rules of International Arbitration
ed. by J. William Rowley QC
The European Lawyer, London, June 2010
Arbitration World, 3rd edition 2010
Jurisdictional comparison
Commercial Arbitration in Switzerland
ed. by J. William Rowley QC
The European Lawyer, London, June 2010
Decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court on the Exemption of Arbitration Functions from VAT
ASA Bulletin Volume 27, No. 4, 2009
Vorsorgliche Massnahmen im internationalen Schiedsprozess
(Provisional and Protective Measures in International Arbitration)
25 ASA Bulletin 3/2007 (September), pp 473‑492
Arbitration World, 2nd edition 2006
Commercial Arbitration in Switzerland
ed. by J William Rowley QC
European Lawyer, London 2006
Arbitrating Pre-Closing Disputes in Merger and Acquisitions Transactions, Arbitration of Merger and Acquisition Disputes
ASA Special Series No. 24 (May 2005), pp 17‑54
Switzerland's New Federal Act on the International Transfer of Cultural Property: An Update and a Perspective from Collectors and the Art Trade, Art Antiquity and Law
Institute of Art Law, London, Volume X, Issue 2 (June 2005)
pp 175‑199
Judicial Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements: The Stay-Dismissal Dichotomy of FAA Section 3
34 Hofstra Law Review 565 (2005)
reprinted in The ICFAI Journal for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Hyderabad, India (2007)
Arbitration World, 1st edition 2004
Commercial Arbitration in Switzerland
ed. by J William Rowley QC
European Lawyer, London 2004
The New Swiss Rules of International Arbitration
The International Arbitration News of the American Bar Association
Vol. 4, No. 2, pp 21‑24 (2004)
Interim Measures
International Arbitration in Switzerland
A Handbook for Practitioners
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler / Blaise Stucki (eds.)
Kluwer Law International / Schulthess
The Hague / Zurich 2004, pp 69‑87
Witness Preparation in International Commercial Arbitration
ASA Bulletin Vol. 20, No. 2 (2002), pp 222‑228
A Selection of Issues under Swiss Law in the
Field of Artists, Collectors and Museums
International Academy of Estate and Trust Law
selected papers 1997 to 1999
Kluwer Law International 2001, pp 863‑896
Arbitrability in Estate and Trust Litigation
The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law
Kluwer Law International 2000, pp 21‑30
Das Schiedsgericht für nachrichtenlose Konten in der Schweiz (The Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland)
ASA Bulletin (1998), pp 252‑256
Disclosure Dilemma in Switzerland
Transcontinental Trusts, Monitor Press Ltd
Sudbury UK 1997, pp 275‑286
Die nennwertlose Aktie (The Non-par Value Stock)
Zurich 1972
Kluwer International Arbitration Blog
Reporter for Switzerland
ITA Board of Reporters for KluwerArbitration.com
Reporter for Switzerland
Contact
von Segesser Law Offices Ltd
Mühlebachstrasse 173
CH-8008 Zurich
Switzerland
Phone +41 44 382 01 00
info@vonsegesserlaw.com