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Michael E. Schneider is a founding partner of LALIVE. He has practiced in international arbitration for more than  years as counsel in ad hoc proceedings and under various rules, including those of the ICC, ICSID, Swiss Rules, Stockholm Institute, the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), European Development Fund, UNCITRAL, and before other international bodies, including the WTO Appellate Body and the United Nations Compensation Commission. He has also acted as arbitrator (chair, sole or co-arbitrator) under the rules of many institutions both in Switzerland and abroad.

Mr Schneider’s main areas of practice are disputes involving States and corporations in construction, industrial engineering and infrastructure projects, energy, mining, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. He has specific experience in managing large and complex disputes, organising and leading teams of specialists from different fields and different legal and cultural backgrounds.

Mr Schneider is Member of the Board of Trustees of CRCICA. He was Vice-President of UNCITRAL (2015 – 2017) and chaired its Working Group II (Arbitration) (2006 – 2010; 2014 – 2015). He is also Honorary President of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) and Member of the Court of Arbitration of the Singapore Arbitration Centre and of the Court of Arbitration of the Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre. He was President of the International Academy of Construction Lawyers and vice chair of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, and a member of several of its working groups (1998 and 2009 revisions of the ICC rules, construction, pre-arbitral referee).

The academic assignments of Michael E. Schneider include Director of Studies at the Centre for Studies and Research at the Hague Academy of International Law (Transnational Arbitration and State Contracts) and lecturing at the University of Fribourg (CH). Mr Schneider studied law and history at the universities of Munich, Bonn and Geneva and international relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva; he is a former AIESEC trainee with Shell Company in Sierra Leone.

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