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Click here to enlarge.   Xavier FAVRE-BULLE IAI Member   
Lenz & Staehelin
30 route de Chêne
CH-1211 Geneva 17
Switzerland
Tel: +41.58.450.7000
Fax: +41.58.450.7001
xavier.favre-bulle@lenzstaehelin.com
http://www.lenzstaehelin.com

 
 
Languages   French (native); English (fluent); German, Italian (working knowledge)
   
Nationality   Switzerland
   
Bar Admission   Geneva - 1996
Solicitor, England & Wales - 2000
   
Education   University of Geneva (Doctorate - 1998; Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures en droit - 1991; Licence en droit - 1988); The College of Law, England (1999); European University Institute, Florence (Academy of European Law - 1992)
   
Academic  
Position  
Lecturer - University of Versailles; Lecturer - Swiss Arbitration Academy; Lecturer - Universities of Lausanne and Chambery (Payment systems; E-commerce)(1998-2004); Lecturer - University of Lausanne (Law of payments; Consumer law)(2002-05))
   
Experience  
as Arbitrator  
Chairman, sole arbitrator or member of the tribunal in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and under the aegis of the ICC, the Geneva Chamber of Commerce (CCIG), the Swiss Chambers of Commerce and the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce
   
Experience  
as Counsel  
Numerous domestic and international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc and under the Rules of the ICC, CCIG, AAA, Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) and the Swiss Rules of Arbitration (energy, mergers & acquisitions, telecommunications, distribution, licensing, agency, sports, and general commercial matters)
   
Publications  
Relating to  
Arbitration  
• "Frégate de Taïwan : comment une procédure pénale française peut conduire à la révision d’une sentence arbitrale rendue en Suisse," Note following the Oct 6, 2009 decision of the Swiss Fed. Trib., 2010(3) Paris J. Int’l Arb. 897 (with S. Nessi)

• "50 Years of the New York Convention on Enforcement of Awards: Conventional Wisdom and Recent Developments," in New Developments in International Commercial Arbitration 2008, at 61 (Müller and Rigozzi eds., 2008)

• "Switzerland," in Getting the Deal Through - Arbitration 2008 (Law Business Research, 2008) (with A. Wittmann)

• "Intervention of third parties and amicus curiae: whose amicus?," in Arbitraje Internacional - Tensiones Actuales 303 (F. Mantilla-Serrano ed., Legis, 2007)

• "Switzerland," in Getting the Deal Through - Arbitration 2007 (Law Business Research, 2007) (with A. Wittmann)

• "Droit du sport et arbitrage international: les récents enseignements du Tribunal fédéral," Jusletter, 20 Nov. 2006 (with G. Vermeil and M. Viret)

• "Arbitrage et règlement alternatif des litiges (ADR) : une autre justice pour les consommateurs ?," in Droit de la consommation, Liber amicorum Bernd Stauder 95 (2006)

• "Switzerland," in Getting the Deal Through - Arbitration 2006 (Law Business Research, 2006) (with A. Wittmann)

• "Switzerland," in Dispute Resolution 2005, at 165 (with A. Wittmann)

• "Are Arbitration Proceedings Still Exclusively Reserved for the Parties?," in IAI Series No. 3, Towards a Uniform International Arbitration Law? 203 (L. Degos, P. Pinsolle, A.V. Schlaepfer eds., 2005)

• "Switzerland," in Dispute Resolution 2004, at 135 (with P. Hafner)

• "Switzerland," in Dispute Resolution 2003, at 138 (with P. Hafner)

• "Report: Congrès de la Société suisse des juristes / Fédération suisse des avocats 2002 (arbitration, mediation)," 2002 ASA Bull. 563

• "Les conséquences du non-paiement de la provision pour frais de l’arbitrage par une partie. Un tribunal arbitral peut-il condamner un défendeur au paiement de sa part de l’avance de frais?," 2001(2) ASA Bull. 227

• "Les Principes UNIDROIT relatifs aux contrats du commerce international - Une introduction," in 1998 Semaine Judiciaire 569 (with P.M. Patocchi)
   

 
   
 
 
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