Schellenberg Wittmer has been recognized once again by Who's Who Legal (WWL) Arbitration 2020 as a leading arbitration firm worldwide. Schellenberg Wittmer is one of two Swiss firms listed in the forefront analysis of the top 20 firms, with 13 lawyers ranked in total across the Arbitration and Future Leaders lists, between Switzerland and Singapore.
Practice team Vice-Chair Christopher Boog achieved special distinction and was ranked as a Global Elite Thought Leader, a list recognizing a few lawyers "at the peak of the profession".
WWL Arbitration 2020 recognizes individual leading lawyers in each jurisdiction. Lawyers are carefully selected for their outstanding expertise and experience as arbitrators, counsel, co-arbitrators, and arbitration chairs in commercial and investor-state disputes under the institutional rules of the ICC, ICSID, UNICTRAL and more.
Schellenberg Wittmer is listed as a leading firm overall and as one of the firms with the highest number of recognitions, recommendations and nominations, particularly in the Future Leaders 2020 analysis.
WWL Arbitration 2020 is comprised of two lists – one for leading arbitration practitioners (WWL Arbitration 2020) and another for pre-eminent lawyers (divided by partner and non-partner) aged 45 or under, whom the market considers to be the future leaders of the arbitration profession (WWL Arbitration Future Leaders 2020).
Philippe Bärtsch, Christopher Boog, Elliott Geisinger, and Nathalie Voser are amongst those recognized in WWL Arbitration 2020, with Anya George, Philipp Groz, Anna Kozmenko, Julie Raneda and Stefan Leimgruber listed in the partner section of Future Leaders. Anne-Carole Cremades, Benjamin Gottlieb, Annabelle Möckesch and Sebastiano Nessi are additionally listed in the non-partner section of the Future Leaders section.