Riccardo Loschi

Senior Associate, Zurich

+41 58 105 2000

rloschi@lalive.law

Riccardo Loschi

Riccardo’s practice focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration and arbitration-related court proceedings. He represents clients in complex, high-value disputes involving foreign investments, M&A transactions, environmental and administrative permits, and national security issues in various sectors, including the energy, space, construction, and financial sectors.

He has experience in arbitrations brought under the UNCITRAL, ICSID, ICC, LCIA, CAM and Swiss Arbitration Rules and governed by both civil and common law.

A member of the Organizing Committee of the Space Arbitration Association, Riccardo regularly speaks at international conferences and publishes about space law and arbitration.

Riccardo is the former managing editor (2020 – 2022) of Columbia FDI Perspectives, a foreign investment policy-oriented series published by Columbia University.

Recent publications

Switzerland signs the Artemis Accords: What Next for the Swiss Space Sector 
RICCARDO LOSCHI, MATTIAS SCHERER
In: LALIVE Insights, 2024 

Settlement of ISDS disputes: Can States Avoid Arbitration?
ISABELLA CANNATÀ, RICCARDO LOSCHI
In: Columbia FDI Perspectives No. 357, 2023

Maximizing the Economic Benefits Produced by International Commercial Arbitration: Beyond “Pro-Arbitration” Policies (Ch. 92)
RICCARDO LOSCHI
In: Pro-Arbitration Revisited: A Tribute to Professor George Bermann (Juris), 2023

Recent conferences

Managing Disputes in the Space Sector 
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Moderator and Organiser
The Space Arbitration Association and AIA below 40, Milan, 15 October 2024

Helsinki Geoeconomics Week 2024
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Speaker, State Intervention in Strategic Transactions
The Geoeconomics Society in collaboration with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, 12-16 August 2024

The Economics and Law of Space-Based Commerce
RICCARDO LOSCHI, Speaker, National Security and Space Law
World Institute and the University of Bern, Bern, 17-18 January 2024

Current professional memberships

  • Member of the Organizing Committee of the Space Arbitration Association (SAA)
  • Member of the Italian Arbitration Association (AIA) below 40
  • Member of ASA below 40
  • Member of the American Bar Association (ABA)
  • Associate fellow of the Helsinki Geoeconomics Society

Career history

  • Senior Associate, LALIVE, Zurich, 2024 – present
  • Associate, LALIVE, Geneva and Zurich, 2020 – 2023
  • Research Assistant to Prof. George A. Bermann, Columbia Law School, New York, 2019 – 2020
  • Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Milan, 2017 – 2019
  • Trainee, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Milan, 2016 – 2017

Academic qualifications

  • Public Policy Analysis Certificate, The London School of Economics (94%), 2024
  • Strategic Space Law Course, McGill University, 2022
  • LLM, Columbia Law School (Parker Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 2020
  • Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza (Italian Law Degree), Bocconi University (summa cum laude), 2016
  • Certificate of Foreign Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014
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