News

As of 1 Jan­u­ary 2025, we wel­come Rox­ane Schmidgall as a part­ner at Gabriel Arbi­tra­tion. We are look­ing for­ward to it!

• Announcement (PDF)

Gabriel Arbi­tra­tion Con­fer­ence 2024 will take place on 29 Octo­ber 2024. The sub­ject of this year’s con­fer­ence is​“Tak­ing of Evi­dence – Scope and Lim­its”. You are cor­dial­ly invit­ed to join us at Zürcher Kan­ton­al­bank. The pro­gram with fur­ther infor­ma­tion is avail­able below.

• Gabriel Arbitration Conference 2024 (PDF)

On 1 Feb­ru­ary 2024, 8:30 am Gabriel Arbi­tra­tion hosts a break­fast-ses­sion at the ASA Swiss Arbi­tra­tion Sum­mit on the sub­ject: ​“Arbi­tra­tor Appoint­ments for Break­fast. An open dis­cus­sion on the ICC arbi­tra­tor appoint­ment prac­tice with cof­fee and croissants.”

Speak­ers: Alexan­der G. Fes­sas (Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, ICC Court), Simon Gabriel (Pres­i­dent ICC Swiss Nom­i­nat­ing Com­mit­tee & Part­ner at Gabriel Arbi­tra­tion). Mod­er­a­tor: Anne-Karin Grill (Aus­tri­an ICC Court Mem­ber & Part­ner at AKG Advisory).

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Gabriel Arbi­tra­tion Con­fer­ence 2023 will take place on 22 Novem­ber 2023. The sub­ject of this year’s con­fer­ence is ​“Front-Load­ing and Cut-Off Date”. You are cor­dial­ly invit­ed to join us at Zürcher Kan­ton­al­bank. The pro­gram with fur­ther infor­ma­tion is avail­able below.

• Gabriel Arbitration Conference 2023 (PDF)

Legal 500 select­ed Simon Gabriel for inclu­sion in the Pow­er List of Arbi­tra­tion Prac­ti­tion­ers of the DACH Region 2023 (Link).

Simon Gabriel was elect­ed as Pres­i­dent of the ICC Swiss Com­mis­sion for Arbi­tra­tion and ADR and will take office in March 2023.

Axel Buhr, Andreas Schre­gen­berg­er and Simon Gabriel con­tributed as authors to the Bernese Com­men­tary (Bern­er Kom­men­tar) on Swiss Law of Inter­na­tion­al Arbi­tra­tion. They com­ment­ed in par­tic­u­lar on the arti­cles con­cern­ing the arbi­tra­tion agree­ment, the arbi­tra­tion pro­ce­dure and inter­im mea­sures. Simon Gabriel also con­tributed as co-edi­tor to this vol­ume (togeth­er with Mar­co Stacher).

Gabriel Arbi­tra­tion Con­fer­ence 2022 will take place on 25 Octo­ber 2022. The sub­ject of this year’s con­fer­ence is ​“Iura Novit Arbiter: Too good to be true?”. You are cor­dial­ly invit­ed to join us at Zürcher Kan­ton­al­bank or watch the live broad­cast at vimeo. The pro­gram and fur­ther infor­ma­tion are avail­able below.

• Gabriel Arbitration Conference 2022 (PDF)

On 27 June 2022, ICC Switzer­land com­mem­o­rates its cen­te­nary with a cel­e­bra­tion and a work­shop on ​“Con­tracts & Arbi­tra­tion in Times of War”. The pan­el dis­cus­sion with Simon Gabriel will be streamed. Please see the pro­gram for the reg­is­tra­tion details.

• 100 Years ICC Switzerland (PDF)

Simon Gabriel was rec­og­nized as one of the top twelve ​“most high­ly regard­ed” arbi­tra­tion prac­ti­tion­ers in Switzer­land by Who’s Who Legal 2022 (Link).

On 21 March 2022, Johannes Land­brecht was appoint­ed pri­vate lec­tur­er (Pri­vat­dozent) at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Fribourg/​Switzerland. He is autho­rized to teach pri­vate law, civ­il jus­tice, pri­vate inter­na­tion­al law and com­par­a­tive law. Con­grat­u­la­tions on a well-deserved success!

On 9 Decem­ber 2021, Simon Gabriel will par­tic­i­pate in a pan­el dis­cus­sion on ​“Par­tic­u­lar­i­ties on the Tak­ing of Evi­dence in Inter­na­tion­al Arbi­tra­tion Pro­ceed­ings” togeth­er with Prof. Dr. Klaus Sachs (CMS, Munich) and Dr. Gerold Zeil­er (ZFZ, Vien­na). The pan­el is orga­nized by Prof. Dr. Schu­mach­er of the Uni­ver­si­ty Inns­bruck and will be con­duct­ed in Ger­man language.

• Program “Die Besonderheiten der Beweisaufnahme in internationalen Schiedsverfahren” (PDF)

Gabriel Arbi­tra­tion Con­fer­ence 2021 will take place on 6 Octo­ber 2021. The sub­ject of this year’s con­fer­ence is ​“Prayers for Relief in Inter­na­tion­al Arbi­tra­tion Pro­ceed­ings: Any­thing Goes?”. You are cor­dial­ly invit­ed to join us at Zürcher Kan­ton­al­bank or watch the live broad­cast at vimeo. The pro­gram and fur­ther infor­ma­tion are avail­able below.

• Gabriel Arbitration Conference 2021 (PDF)

Gabriel Arbi­tra­tion Con­fer­ence goes vir­tu­al: On 4 Novem­ber 2020 (16:30 Zurich time), we will broad­cast live from Zürcher Kan­ton­al­bank. You are kind­ly invit­ed to join us on Vimeo and par­tic­i­pate in the dis­cus­sion. This year’s hot top­ic: ​“Dis­rup­tion of Sup­ply Chains: How to Decide all Claims in One Go?” Please see the pro­gram for fur­ther information:

• Virtual Gabriel Arbitration Conference 2020 (PDF)

Simon Gabriel was rec­og­nized as one of the top ten most high­ly regard­ed arbi­tra­tion lawyers in Switzer­land by Who’s Who Legal 2020 (link).

Inter­na­tion­al insur­ance pro­grams often pro­vide for arbi­tra­tion agree­ments and an increas­ing num­ber of arbi­tra­tions on busi­ness inter­rup­tion issues is cur­rent­ly expect­ed as a result of COVID-19. Here is our one page-check­list for affect­ed companies:

• Insurance and COVID 19 (PDF)

Simon Gabriel con­tributed an arti­cle about the exten­sion of arbi­tra­tion agree­ments to third par­ties to the most recent issue of the ASA Bul­letin (4/2019). The arti­cle high­lights recent case law of the Swiss Fed­er­al Tri­bunal. A copy is avail­able here.

Simon Gabriel, Axel Buhr and Johannes Land­brecht were again rec­og­nized by Who’s Who Legal und Glob­al Arbi­tra­tion Review as lead­ing prac­ti­tion­ers in the field of arbitration.

Please join us for our autumn con­fer­ence on the sub­ject of ​“Ear­ly Deter­mi­na­tion” on 31 Octo­ber 2019. The pro­gram and fur­ther infor­ma­tion are avail­able below.

• Early Determination: Conference Program (PDF)