Get to know Elliott Geisinger
Elliott Geisinger is a partner in our Geneva office, where he heads our International Arbitration Group. Since 1994, his practice has focused on international arbitration. He 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, and consultancy contracts while also advising clients in investment matters.
In addition, Elliott Geisinger has 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. Contract management in large-scale construction projects is a further specialization of his. He has also advised Swiss corporations in investment disputes.
After graduating from the School of Law of the University of Geneva in 1986, where he also obtained a Master of Laws in 2000, Elliott Geisinger served as a teaching and research assistant in private international law at the university from 1986 to 2002. He was a trainee and then an associate with Baker & McKenzie in Geneva before joining us in 1996 and becoming a partner in 2002. He sat on the Arbitration Committee of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1999 to 2003 and was elected to the executive board of the Swiss Arbitration Association in 2007, becoming Vice-President in 2010. He has authored and co-authored several publications in the fields of international arbitration and private international law.