Felix DASSER

Felix Dasser is a senior member and former head of the Litigation / Arbitration practice. He has more than 30 years of experience with a focus on litigating and arbitrating international commercial and investment disputes. He is also a renowned academic and expert on Swiss law.

He advises on international litigation strategies. He represents clients before Swiss courts and authorities and assist in foreign proceedings. His range of expertise covers, in particular, banking and insurance, M&A, commodity sales, distribution agreements, IT, engineering, investment, and international legal assistance. He also advises on and conducts regulatory and compliance investigations.

He has acted as counsel and arbitrator (sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, and chairman) in numerous international arbitration cases, including as global lead counsel in a billion-dollar IT-dispute and lead counsel in an investment dispute against a Central European State. He is familiar with various arbitration rules. Since 2020, he is President of ASA, the Swiss Arbitration Association.

As professor of law for private law, private international law and private comparative law, Felix Dasser lectures and publishes regularly in the fields of international commercial dispute resolution and international business law. He is visiting professor at the China University of Political Science and Law and taught at the Hague Academy of International Law. He also frequently appears as expert witness on Swiss law in Swiss and foreign court and arbitration proceedings.

He is recommended by the major league tables for law (Chambers, The Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation, Leaders League, Who's Who Legal, and others) and is admitted to the Legal 500 Hall of Fame.