Get to know Anne Véronique Schlaepfer
Anne Véronique Schlaepfer is a partner in our International Arbitration Group in Geneva. She has acted as counsel in commercial disputes involving, inter alia, construction contracts, corporate affairs, energy (upstream and downstream), joint venture agreements, sales contracts, collateral management agreements, and know-how license agreements.
Anne Véronique Schlaepfer serves as arbitrator in numerous proceedings and represents parties before Swiss courts in arbitration-related court proceedings, in particular challenges of arbitral awards. She advises companies when negotiating agreements governed by Swiss law and acts as legal expert in arbitration proceedings. She is the Chairman of the Arbitration Committee that administers arbitration proceedings governed by the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration, a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, and an associate member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.
Anne Véronique Schlaepfer is a member of the working group for the revision of the Swiss Rules and was a member of the task force drafting the IBA Guidelines of International Arbitration Clauses, approved in October 2010. As of January 2012, Anne Véronique Schlaepfer will be vice-chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee. She is also a lecturer on international arbitration at the University of Paris XII.
Anne Véronique Schlaepfer is co-founder of the Young Arbitration Practi-tioners Group (YAP) and of ASA Below 40. She is member of various professional associations (LCIA, IBA, ASA). She has authored and co-authored various publications in international arbitration.
A graduate of the University of Geneva (law degree in 1993, degree in business administration in 1991), she joined us in 1996, after being admitted to the Swiss bar earlier that year, and worked as a foreign associate with Herbert Smith in London in 1998. She became a partner in our firm in 2002. Anne Véronique Schlaepfer is a lecturer on international arbitration at the University of Paris XII.