Roopa Mathews

Senior Associate, Zurich

+41 58 105 2000

rmathews@lalive.law

Roopa Mathews

Roopa specialises in international commercial and investment arbitration. She advises and represents clients in complex disputes in various industry sectors, including aerospace, chemical manufacturing, construction, and energy. Roopa has acted as counsel and tribunal secretary in arbitrations under various procedural rules, including the ICC, ICSID, LCIA and FAI Arbitration Rules.

Roopa is a lecturer in English law at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Recent publications

Managing risk in nuclear construction projects
MELISSA MAGLIANA, ROOPA MATHEWS
In: Construction Law International, 26 July 2024 and LALIVE Blog, 06 May 2024

Payward v Chechetkin: Consumer protection trumps enforceability of crypto award
ROOPA MATHEWS, KRYSTAL LEE
In: Lexology online, LALIVE Blog, 2023

Challenging Homogeneity in International Arbitration: Towards Greater Diversity and Inclusion in Counsel Teams
ROOPA MATHEWS, ELIANE FISCHER
In: The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management (Vol. 89, Issue 2), 2023

Recent conferences

Young Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration – Arbitration in India: The in-house counsel’s perspective
ROOPA MATHEWS, Moderator
Online, 3 December 2024

International Nuclear Law Association Inter Jura Congress – Survey of recent international licensing harmonization and improvement efforts
ROOPA MATHEWS, Speaker
Warsaw, 5 November 2024

ASA below 40 Spring Seminar – Early Dismissal & Preliminary Determination – Good or Bad Idea?
ROOPA MATHEWS, Speaker
Geneva, 14 June 2024

 

Current professional memberships

  • Member of the International Nuclear Law Association (INLA)
  • Member of DIS and DIS40
  • Member of ASA and ASA below 40

Career history

  • Senior Associate, LALIVE, Zurich, 2024 – present
  • Associate, LALIVE, Zurich, 2021 – 2023
  • Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Frankfurt, 2018 – 2021
  • Trainee Solicitor, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London and Washington, DC, 2016 – 2018

Academic qualifications

  • Master of Laws in Public International Law, London School of Economics, 2015
  • Bachelor of Laws, University of Bristol (First Class Honours), 2014
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