LAURENT HIRSCH

• Swiss national
• Born 1961

Current activity
Partner with Hirsch

• Diploma in Legal Studies in 1984 (Oxford University)
• Law Degree in 1983 (University of Geneva)

• Legal counsel with Debiopharm, a pharmaceutical development company based in Lausanne, from 1994 to 1998.
• Assistant manager with CGI Compagnie de Gérance Immobilière, a Geneva real estate agency, from 1991 to 1994.
• Associate with Junod, Guyet, Mühlstein & Lévy, a Geneva law firm, from 1986 to 1990.
  

• Arbitration
• International patent and know-how license agreements
• Mergers and acquisitions, Shareholders agreements
• Banking and finance 

• Presentation at the CILS Salzburg International Arbitration Conference on extending the arbitration clause, "Binding Non-Signatories To International Arbitral Awards" (June 17, 2006)
• “Recours contre une sentence rectificative” , published in Jusletter August 22, 2005
• “Quel recours à Strasbourg dans des litiges privés ? ”, published in Lettre du Conseil No 41, May 2005, pp. 304-309
• Conference to the ASA Gruppe Espace Mittelland on extending the arbitration clause, “Portée subjective de la clause d’arbitrage (extension de la clause arbitrale à des tiers non-signataires)” (November 1, 2004)
• “Judgement of the Swiss Supreme Court rendered in 2003 in case 4P.137/2002”, published in Stockholm Arbitration Report 2004:1, pp. 217-239
• “Les critères de la conclusion du contrat”, published in De lege ferenda Réflexions sur le droit désirable en l'honneur du Professeur Alain Hirsch, Slatkine, Genève 2004, pp. 333-339

• Member of the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Geneva Bar Association
• Member of the Groupe de Travail Contrats Internationaux
• Member of various other professional associations, Swiss Arbitration Association, AGDA