Juliette specialises in international arbitration, including both commercial and investment treaty arbitration, with a focus on complex disputes involving major construction projects in the energy, transportation, healthcare and telecom sectors. She is ranked among “Arbitration Future Leaders – Non Partners” in Who’s Who Legal. Her expertise also covers M&A-, IP- and distribution-related disputes, as well as technology-related disputes (including in relation to blockchain technology, smart contracts and AI).
She has acted as counsel, arbitrator and administrative secretary in over 30 arbitration proceedings under various procedural rules (including ICC, Swiss Rules, LCIA, SCC, WIPO and ICSID), governed by various procedural and substantive laws (including French, Swiss, Swedish, Finnish, Ethiopian, Algerian, Qatari, Saudi, Iraqi and international law).
Recognition
Arbitration Future Leaders, Non Partner
Who’s Who Legal, 2023-2024
Juliette showed “outstanding” knowledge of the case
GAR 2016
Recent publications
Swiss Arbitration Summit – Shaping the Future of Arbitration Together: Extension of Arbitration Clauses to Non-signatories and AI in Practice
JULIETTE ASSO, FELIX DASSER, DILBER DEVITRE; MANYA GOPALAKRISHNAN, NIKOLINA MARUSIC, KORINNA VON TROTHA, ANDREA MEIER AND NINO SIEVI
In: Kluwer Arbitration Blog, January 17, 2025
Navigating the Main Impacts of Artificial Intelligence in International Arbitration: Insights from the ICC YAAF Workshop
JULIETTE ASSO, JANINE HAESLER (VISHER AG) AND TOM ISLER (ROTHORN LEGAL AG)
In: Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 2024
A question of value: assets in the Metaverse
JULIETTE ASSO (RICHARD), BEN ALLGROVE, TOM ARA, ELIZABETH CHAN, SOPHIE GOOSSENS, JOHN GROOM, DAN PERERA, ANDREA CARDANI, DANIEL RYAN, 2023
In: BRG, 2023
Recent conferences
Swiss Arbitration Centre - Swiss Arbitration Centre – Innovation Conference: “Hands-on With AI – Practical Insights into AI Powered Tools Available for International Arbitration Practitioners and How to Master Them”
JULIETTE ASSO (RICHARD), Role: Co-chair and moderator
Zurich, 30 January 2025
- Dutch Arbitration Day – Panel: The next generation of technology in arbitration
JULIETTE ASSO (RICHARD), Role: Speaker
Amsterdam, 6 June 2024
PAW - PAW Le 16 Law event at Le Cercle de l’Union Interalliée – « The Morning After: What does ESG, Ethics (Anti-Corruption) and AI Reserve to Arbitration in the Future?”
JULIETTE ASSO (RICHARD), Role: Speaker
Paris, 21 March 2024
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Current professional memberships
- Co-chair of CFA40
- Member of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) and ASA below 40
- Member of the Comité Français de l’Arbitrage (CFA) and CFA40
- Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)
- Member of ArbitralWomen
- Member of Blockchain Lawyers Forum
Career history
- Counsel, LALIVE, Geneva, 2022 – present
- Associate, LALIVE, Geneva, 2013 – 2021
- Trainee, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris, 2012
- Trainee, Sullivan & Cromwell, Paris, 2011
Academic qualifications
- Lecturer : “Metaverse, crypto NFT, Blockchain and Dispute resolution”, part of the class “New Technologies in Dispute Resolution” in the International Dispute Resolution LLM, Humboldt-University of Berlin, 2023-present
- Master in Business Law, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, 2011
- Bachelor of Laws, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, 2010
- MBA, ESSEC Business School (Grande Ecole Programme), Paris, 2010
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