Birgit Sambeth

Career

2021-2023 President of the Swiss Bar Association

2019-2021 Vice President of the Swiss Bar Association

Since 2005 Partner at Altenburger

1994-2008 Substitute judge at the Geneva courts

1994-2005 Sambeth Glasner Law Firm, Geneva

1989-1994 Legal counsel at Ernst & Young (legal and tax dept.), Basel

1986-1987 Legal trainee at Baker & McKenzie, Geneva and Chicago

Languages Spoken

French - German - English - Spanish - Italian

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution (Mediation), Restructuring & Bankruptcy

Experience

Birgit Sambeth is Co-Head of our Dispute Resolution Team. As a former substitute Judge and judicial Conciliator, acting as Mediator and as Arbitrator, she is acknowledged as a forward thinking, holistic and strategic dispute resolution specialist, and is regularly appointed as Neutral to prevent and resolve complex, international and domestic disputes in commercial and international agency/distribution contracts, M&A transactions, construction projects, employment and family/inheritance matters, often with cross cultural and multi-language components.

Listed among the “Thought Leaders - Mediation” by Who's Who Legal since 2018, Birgit has been recognized as the “N° 1 most highly regarded mediator in Switzerland”. She is accredited by a number of national and international organizations, in particular: the Swiss Bar Association (FSA-SAV), the Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (SCCM), the International Mediation Institute (IMI), CEDR London, CPR New York, VIAC Vienna, CMAP Paris, CAM Milan, CML Russia, Shenzhen Court of Arbitration (South China) (SCIA), ICC, SCAI, TAS-CAS, INSOL and WIPO.

In addition to her activity as Neutral, Birgit is also frequently involved in company restructuring and insolvency proceedings, acting as creditor representative or as liquidator and trustee in the context of domestic and international bankruptcy and composition proceedings.