Expertise

Peter & Kim has significant experience advising and representing corporate, sovereign and private clients in commercial arbitration across multiple sectors. Our team has first-hand experience arbitrating under the procedural rules of the major arbitral institutions (including ICC, LCIA, SCAI, SIAC, HKIAC, KCAB, JCAA, SCC, ICDR/AAA, DIS, VIAC, ACICA, CRCICA, DIAC, NAI, CIETAC and ICSID) as well as with ad hoc proceedings. We frequently deal with disputes subject to the laws of multiple jurisdictions and in all major arbitral seats. With our offices in leading arbitral and commercial centres, we are ideally placed to advise and represent clients globally.

Our team has an extensive record of advising and representing corporate, sovereign and private clients in complex cross-border disputes. We routinely appear before the world’s leading arbitrators and against counsel from larger international law firms. Our lawyers draw from their own experiences as counsel, arbitrators, academics, in-house lawyers and from working at major arbitral institutions. This wide range of experience is to ensures that we provide an informed and deeply practical approach to the conduct of investor-state proceedings.

Our experience spans all aspects of public international law and investment treaty matters. This includes pre-investment structuring and risk management advice, investment treaty arbitration under the aegis of ICSID, ICC, SCC and PCA as well as ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, and State-to-State dispute settlement.

Peter & Kim specialises in handling the most demanding arbitrations. We deliver high quality, unique services to key players in the sports business industry. Trusting in our deep knowledge of the sporting industry and unique understanding of all aspects of sports businesses, we are chosen to advise and represent clients in the most challenging sports-related proceedings. Our team advises and represents Olympic committees, major sports organisations, sponsors, equity funds, private investors, owners and license holders, equipment manufacturers, agents, investment funds, professional teams and athletes in contractual, disciplinary, commercial, regulatory and investigatory matters.

Our lawyers have acted in more than 250 sports-related arbitration proceedings in the last 15 years. We and have unmatched knowledge and expertise in high-stakes commercial and sporting disputes. We have acted as counsel and arbitrator in major sports industry disputes including those related to sponsorship deals, international events, construction, hosting, ticketing, TV & media rights, broadcasting, gambling and IP rights. Peter & Kim’s sports arbitration group sits across Peter & Kim’s offices in Switzerland (Geneva and Zurich) and the Asia-Pacific (Seoul, Singapore, and Sydney). This unique team is equipped to handle sports disputes in more than eight languages and has expertise in both common law and civil law systems.

Peter & Kim offers the knowledge and practical experience of some of the most prominent legal minds in arbitration-related proceedings before national courts in jurisdictions across the globe. We advise and represent clients through all stages of the arbitration process including applications in aid of the arbitration and issues related to enforcement.