Elliott Geisinger

Elliott Geisinger heads Schellenberg Wittmer's International Arbitration Group. Since 1995, his practice has focused on international commercial and investor-state arbitration. Elliott has acted as counsel and arbitrator in complex commercial disputes involving international construction contracts, consortia and joint venture agreements, sponsorship contracts, sales and distribution contracts, among others. He has also acted as lead counsel in several of the most high-profile investor-state cases of the last decade. Elliott regularly represents clients in arbitration-related court proceedings, and several of his cases have been reported on in the official collection of leading Swiss Supreme Court cases and in arbitration journals. Experience: Elliott has acted as counsel and arbitrator in complex commercial disputes involving international construction contracts, consortia and joint venture agreements, sponsorship contracts, sales and distribution contracts, among others. He regularly represented clients in arbitration-related court proceedings, and several of his cases have been reported on in the official collection of Swiss Supreme Court cases and in arbitration journals · Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

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Elliott Geisinger is head of Schellenberg Wittmer's International Arbitration Group and has practised international commercial and investor-state arbitration since 1995. He acts as counsel and arbitrator in complex disputes (notably construction, consortia and joint ventures, sponsorship and sales/distribution matters), has been lead counsel in major investor‑state cases and regularly represents clients in arbitration-related court proceedings reported in Swiss Supreme Court collections and arbitration journals.

Practice areas

International ArbitrationInvestor-State ArbitrationDispute ResolutionConstructionEnergySanctionsInvestment Protection

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Switzerland

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd · Elliott Geisinger heads Schellenberg Wittmer's International Arbitration Group. Since 1995, his practice has focused on international commercial and investor-state arbitration. Elliott has acted as counsel and arbitrator in complex commercial disputes involving international construction contracts, consortia and joint venture agreements, sponsorship contracts, sales and distribution contracts, among others. He has also acted as lead counsel in several of the most high-profile investor-state cases of the last decade. Elliott regularly represents clients in arbitration-related court proceedings, and several of his cases have been reported on in the official collection of leading Swiss Supreme Court cases and in arbitration journals. Experience: Elliott has acted as counsel and arbitrator in complex commercial disputes involving international construction contracts, consortia and joint venture agreements, sponsorship contracts, sales and distribution contracts, among others. He regularly represented clients in arbitration-related court proceedings, and several of his cases have been reported on in the official collection of Swiss Supreme Court cases and in arbitration journals

Switzerland

Expertise

International construction disputesConsortia & joint venture disputesSponsorship contractsSales & distribution disputesInvestor‑state disputesArbitration-related court proceedings

Education

Master of Law, University of Geneva (1990)
Bar admission, Switzerland (1994)

Admissions

Switzerland (bar admission, 1994)

Languages

FrenchEnglishGermanSpanishItalian