Noradèle Radjai

Partner, Geneva

+41 58 105 2000

English

Noradèle specialises in international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration across a number of sectors including energy, construction and infrastructure, and mining. She routinely advises and represents clients from the Middle East and on disputes relating to Middle Eastern projects and contracts.

Hailed as “exceptional”, Noradèle is renowned for being “highly skilled in written and oral advocacy” and for her “superb cross-examination skills”, Chambers Global, Arbitration International, 2023. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in about 100 international arbitration proceedings, both ad hoc and institutional (under the ICC, LCIA, SCC, ICSID, AAA/ICDR, UNCITRAL and Swiss Rules), including disputes arising from share sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, and large projects, governed by a variety of procedural and substantive laws.

Recognition

Ranked Band 2 Chambers Europe
Chambers Europe, Arbitration Counsel, 2023

“She brings a phenomenal amount of energy” and “her strategic guidance is bang on.”
Chambers Global, Arbitration International, 2023

Noradèle is “an excellent lawyer…who resolves difficult situations with a strategic and calm approach”.
GAR 100, Arbitration, 2023

Recent publications

Risk of irreparable harm (necessity or imminent danger of serious prejudice)
NORADÈLE RADJAI, ANNA KORSHUNOVA
In: Provisional and Emergency Measures in International Arbitration, Elgar Arbitration Law and Practice, Edited by Julien Fouret, Paris, France, pp. 363 – 400, 2023

Evidence in gas pricing arbitration
Noradèle Radjai, Augustin Barrier
In: Gas and LNG Price Arbitrations, A Practical Handbook, second edition, pp. 87-101, 2020

Commercial Arbitration and the Development of Common Law
Noradèle Radjai
In: Jean Kalicki and Mohamed Abdel Raouf, Evolution and Adaption: The Future of International Arbitration, ICCA Congress Series No. 20, Kluwer Law International BV, pp. 333-353, 2020

Recent conferences

Common Law Islands in the MENA Region: Are we heading towards a distortion of the applicable Law?
Speaker
Paris, 22 March 2024

Arbitrating in GCC countries and Switzerland – Swiss Arbitration Middle Eats Roadshow 2024
Panellist
Dubai, 29 February 2024

Debate panel: A debate among the Users: Is arbitration well-positioned to meet the needs of users, today and tomorrow?
Panellist
Geneva, 2 February 2024

Member of the Executive Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
Member of the Executive Committee of the Board of ASA (Swiss Arbitration Association)
Member of the Pledge Steering Committee and the CPR European Advisory Board
Officer of IBA Arab Regional Forum

Career history

Partner, LALIVE, 2012 – present
Counsel, LALIVE, 2010 – 2011
Associate, LALIVE, 2007 – 2010
Associate, Skadden Arps, 2003 – 2007
Associate, Simmons & Simmons, 2000 – 2003

Academic qualifications

Higher rights of audience, 2009
LPC, College of Law, 2000
LLB Law, King’s College London, 1996 – 1999

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Practices

Arbitration - International Commercial
Arbitration - Investment Treaty
Public International Law

Sectors

Construction & Infrastructure
Energy
Mining
Technology

Languages

Arabic
English
French
Spanish

Nationality

British
Lebanese
Swiss

Admission

Switzerland, 2020
England & Wales, 2002

“An exceptional lawyer” Chambers Global, Arbitration, 2023

Noradèle Radjai

Partner, Geneva

Recognition

Recent publications

Recent conferences

Current professional memberships

Career history

Academic qualifications

Practices

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Languages

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