Get to know Martin Bernet
Martin Bernet is a partner in our Zurich office, where he heads our Dispute Resolution Group. His practice focuses on international litigation and arbitration as well as insurance and reinsurance. He has a strong practice as counsel representing parties before arbitration panels and is also regularly appointed as an arbitrator, frequently presiding as chairman over arbitral tribunals.
Martin Bernet's litigation practice covers a broad range of issues, among them pre-litigation strategic advice, representation of parties in court proceedings in cases related, inter alia, to banking, international commodity sales, joint ventures, corporate liability, insurance, enforcement of foreign judgments, and asset recovery. He has extensive experience in matters involving issues of international legal assistance. His insurance and reinsurance practice covers a number of the problems facing the industry. He advises and represents insurers and reinsurers in, for example, coverage, policy wording, and regulatory matters.
A partner with our firm since 1989, Martin Bernet previously worked as as a foreign associate in Washington, D.C. He is a former chair of the International Bar Association's International Litigation Committee. In 2003, he was a member of the Swiss Bar Association's group of experts that reviewed the draft for a new Swiss-wide Code of Civil Procedure. He has published in the areas of administrative procedural law, contracts, international litigation and international arbitration.