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Marco Vedovatti
Zurich

Marco Vedovatti, LL.M.

Senior Associate

+41 44 215 5279

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Vanessa Battistini

Assistant


vanessa.battistini@swlegal.ch

Marco Vedovatti is a Senior Associate in our International Arbitration Group in Zurich. He is admitted to practice in Switzerland and Spain (Abogado). He has acted as counsel in complex international commercial arbitrations, in particular in large construction/civil engineering and energy disputes, as well as in international sports disputes and arbitration-related proceedings before foreign courts.

Expertise

  International Arbitration   Dispute Resolution   Construction
  Energy   Sports

Experience

  • Has represented private companies in international commercial arbitrations with seat in Geneva, Paris, Madrid, Algiers and Dakar, under the rules of the ICC and the Common Court of Justice of the OHADA, in particular in construction and civil engineering disputes governed by Swiss, French, English, Spanish, Algerian, Bulgarian and Senegalese Law
  • Has represented companies in proceedings before Dispute Adjudication Boards (DAB) and related enforcement proceedings
  • Has represented agents, clubs, federations and athletes in international sports disputes, both in ADR and court proceedings

Career

Professional Experience
2020
Senior Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer
2019
Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer
2013 - 2019
Associate and Principal Associate at the Litigation and Arbitration Department of Cuatrecasas in Madrid
2012
Legal intern at the Litigation and Arbitration Department of Cuatrecasas in Madrid
2010 - 2011
Research and teaching assistant at the University of Geneva (Prof. Margareta Baddeley, Chair of Family, Inheritance and Sports Law)
2008 - 2010
Trainee Lawyer in a Geneva law firm
2008
Trainee Lawyer in a Lugano law firm
2006 - 2007
Law Clerk at the Court of First Instance of Lugano (4th division)
Education and Admission
2017 - 2019
PhD Candidate in International Arbitration, University of Fribourg
2014
Bar Admission in Spain
2012
LL.M. in International Sports Law, ISDE - Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (with honors, first of his promotion)
2010
Bar Admission in Switzerland
2005
Master of Law, University of Fribourg
Additional Professional Activities
  • Lecturer on International Commercial Arbitration, CUNEF, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros, Madrid
  • Lecturer on International Sports Arbitration, ISDE, Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía, Madrid
  • Lecturer on Swiss Association Law and Swiss Arbitration Law, European University – School of Real Madrid FC, Madrid
  • Coach with CUNEF, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros, Madrid, for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Vienna Moot)
  • Member of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA below 40), the Club Español de Arbitraje (CEA40), the ICC YAF, the Young ICCA, the DIAC40, the Young OGEMID

Languages

  • Italian
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
  • German

Selected Publications

  Panorama de jurisprudencia suiza (Capítulo Suizo del Club Español de Arbitraje)   Public Policy in International Sports Arbitration – Does it, or should it, exist?
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Speaking Engagements

  Marco Vedovatti Speaker at the Young Arbitrators' Committee of ICC Mexico Webinar   Marco Vedovatti Speaker at the Uzbeck Arbitration Week 2021   Marco Vedovatti: Speaker on the Set Aside Application in International Arbitration in Switzerland
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