Biography: Arbitration

Dominique Brown-Berset is a founding partner of Brown&Page, a law firm with offices in Geneva and Nyon specialising in dispute resolution, contract and commercial law, and public international law. She practises mainly in the field of international arbitration and business transactions. She is listed, inter alia, on the HKIAC, JCAA, KLRCA panels of arbitrators.

She holds law degrees from Lausanne University Law School (Switzerland), Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) and Harvard Law School (US). She is a member of the management board and of the supervisory council of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law.

She has been acting as counsel, co-counsel and arbitrator in more than 170 international arbitration cases around the world, including cases involving states and international organisations, both at private and governmental levels, and in particular in cases relating to transfer of technology, construction of turnkey factories and other major infrastructure projects (roads, bridges, pipelines), procurement contracts, licence agreements, agency, joint venture and shareholders' agreements, distribution, sale and purchase contracts, telecom, post-M&A disputes and the like.

Her industry experience includes telecommunications, satellites, aviation, avionics, computers (software and hardware), glass and paper production, steel, chemicals and petrochemicals, LNG projects, electricity, oil and gas (and other energy sectors), mining, food, catering, utilities operation and maintenance services, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, shipping and shipbuilding, luxury goods, textiles and the arts, financial services and real estate.

Dominique has a special interest and experience in dispute resolution tools in relation to arbitration that lead to faster commercial solutions.

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