Biography
Michael E. Schneider is a founding partner of LALIVE, an international and independent law firm based in Switzerland with offices in Geneva, Zurich and London. He has practised in international arbitration for more than 40 years as counsel in disputes involving States and corporations in construction, industrial engineering and infrastructure projects, natural resources (in particular oil and gas) and investment disputes, organising and leading teams of specialists from different fields and different legal and cultural backgrounds in ad hoc proceedings and under various rules, including those of the UNCITRAL, ICC, ICSID, LCIA, Swiss Rules, Stockholm Institute, the Cairo Regional Centre (CRCICA), Dubai (DIAC), European Development Fund and before other international bodies, including the WTO Appellate Body and the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC). He has also acted as arbitrator (sole, presiding or co-arbitrator) under the rules of many institutions.
Immediate past president of the International Academy of Construction Lawyers (IACL). Honorary President of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA). Member of the Board of Trustees of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and member of the Court of Arbitration of the Singapore International Arbitration Center. Past chairman of the UNCITRAL Working Group II (Arbitration) at its Sessions in New York and Vienna (2006-2010) on the revision of the Arbitration Rules and on the revision of the Notes on Organizing Arbitral Proceedings (2014-2015) and Vice-chair of the Commission (2015-2017). Past Vice chair of the ICC Commission on Arbitration until 2014, and member of several of its working groups (1998 and 2012 revisions of the ICC Rules, Construction, Pre-arbitral Referee).