Get to know Manuel Liatowitsch
Manuel Liatowitsch is a partner in our Dispute Resolution Group and heads our Private Clients Group in Zurich. He acts as counsel in commercial disputes before Swiss courts and international arbitral tribunals and also as an arbitrator. He further advises private clients and entrepreneurs in Switzerland and abroad on all aspects of estate and succession planning, business matters, private banking, philanthropy and in inheritance disputes.
In 1997, Manuel Liatowitsch graduated summa cum laude from the University of Basel before serving as a legal secretary to the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland. He subsequently was a Visiting Fellow with Yale University’s International Security Studies. In 2001 he received his doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Basel and then worked as a foreign associate with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. After joining our firm as an associate in 2003 he became a partner in 2008.
He has authored and co-authored various publications, including a leading Swiss text book on private international law and international litigation. He is a lecturer in private international law at the University of Zurich and a frequent conference speaker. Manuel Liatowitsch is a Co-Chair of ASA below 40 (the Swiss Arbitration Associations’ young practitioners group), Vice-Chair of the International Arbitration Committee of the American Bar Associations’ International Section and also a Vice-Chair of its International Private Client Committee. He is a member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law.