Profile: Elliott E Geisinger

Commercial Arbitration

Biography: Commercial Arbitration

Elliott Geisinger is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer's arbitration group in Geneva. His practice focuses primarily on international commercial arbitration, and he has acted as counsel and as arbitrator in a large number of cases in several fields, including construction, distribution, sale of goods, consortia and international hotel management. Elliott Geisinger has represented parties in several Swiss court proceedings relating to arbitration. His expertise in the field of arbitration also extends to the drafting of arbitration rules for institutional commercial arbitration and in sports arbitration. In addition to his activities in the field of arbitration, Elliott Geisinger regularly provides advice to clients on Swiss substantive law, in particular contract law. He has also developed a successful practice of contract management in long-term infrastructure projects. His other areas of specialisation are private international law, recognition and enforcement in Switzerland of foreign judgments and international commercial disputes before Swiss courts.

Elliott Geisinger was born in 1964 and is a Swiss and American citizen. He is fluent in French, English and German and has a good reading knowledge of Italian. He was admitted to the Bar in Switzerland in 1994. He graduated from the School of Law of the University of Geneva in 1986, where he also obtained a Masters in 2000. From 1986 to 2002, he was a teaching and research assistant at the Department of Private International Law of the Geneva Law Faculty. He was a trainee and then an associate with another business law firm in Geneva before joining Schellenberg Wittmer in 1996; he became a partner in 2002. He sat on the arbitration committee of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1999 to 2003 and was elected to the board of the Swiss Arbitration Association in 2007.

He has several publications in his fields of practice and has in particular co-authored an important work on the Swiss Private International Act.

Schellenberg Wittmer is one of the leading business law firms in Switzerland; with offices in Zurich and Geneva, they offer expertise and specialisation of more than 100 lawyers. The firm's core practice areas are corporate and M&A, banking and finance, capital markets, tax, private capital and estate planning, and dispute resolution.