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

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

Amir Soleymani v Nifty Gateway: Arbitration and Consumer Protection in NFT disputes
ROOPA MATHEWS, LAURA AZARIA, RAPHAEL SCHMID
In: Jus Mundi, 2023

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Recent conferences

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

Co-Chairs Circle Conference 2024 – The Future of International Arbitration
ROOPA MATHEWS, Workshop moderator
Frankfurt, 17 May 2024

ARBinBRIEF – Arbitration as a tool to facilitate settlement
ROOPA MATHEWS, Moderator
Online, 22 November 2023

Current memberships

  • Organizing committee member of ARBinBRIEF
  • 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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Practices

  • Arbitration - International Commercial
  • Arbitration - Investment Treaty

Sectors

  • Construction & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Technology

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Malayalam

Nationality

  • Swiss

Admission

  • England & Wales, Solicitor-Advocate, 2021
  • Ireland, 2021
  • England & Wales, 2018

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Managing risk in nuclear construction projects

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03 August 2023

Payward v Chechetkin: Consumer protection trumps enforceability of crypto award

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17 May 2023

Challenging Homogeneity in International Arbitration: Towards Greater Diversity and Inclusion in Counsel Teams

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17 May 2023

Amir Soleymani v Nifty Gateway: Arbitration and Consumer Protection in NFT disputes

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17 May 2022

The arbitrability of corporate disputes after Fulham Football Club v Richards – A decade on

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