Training - Arbitration in Disputes on R&D and Related Commercial Agreements

Domitille BAIZEAU joined LALIVE in 2004. Her main area of practice is international arbitration. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in over forty international arbitral proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) or administered (ICC, Swiss Rules, LCIA, AAA/ICDR, WIPO), governed by various procedural and substantive laws, including English, Swiss and French. She regularly advises clients on arbitration-related matters including drafting of arbitration agreements, challenges and enforcement of arbitral awards. Her areas of specialization include joint venture, M&A, shareholders, sales, distribution and investment disputes in the energy, telecommunications, construction, pharmaceutical and transport sectors.

Domitille Baizeau has been a member of the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution which administers arbitrations subject to the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration since 2010. She is Councillor of the European Users' Council of the LCIA (she acted as co-chair of the LCIA's Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG) from 2005 to 2009) and member of the Executive Committee of the Swedish Arbitration Association (SAA). She is also a member of ASA, the Swiss Arbitration Association, (she acted as co-chair of ASA below 40 from 2007 to 2010) and the IBA (Arbitration Committee), and an Associate Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. She is on the panel of arbitrators of the ICC New Zealand Arbitration Committee, the ICC French National Committee and the ICDR. She regularly speaks at conferences and publishes in international arbitration and is also a member of the Editorial Board of the ASA Bulletin.

Domitille Baizeau has been ranked for several years by Chambers Europe and Chambers Global for Dispute Resolution: Arbitration in Switzerland and since 2010 in The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration. In 2011, she was selected as one of 45 "leading figures" in international arbitration below the age of 45, following a peer-review process conducted by Global Arbitration Law Review.

Before joining LALIVE, Domitille Baizeau practiced in litigation and arbitration in New Zealand with Lane Neave, Christchurch (1996-1999) and in France with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris (2001-2004). She graduated from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1995 (LL.B. First Class Honours) and also holds a Diploma in French law from the Université Paris II Assas-Panthéon.

Kathleen PAISLEY is an American lawyer who has been practicing international arbitrationand IP/IT in Europe for more than two decades. She heads the firm’s international arbitration groupand co-chairs the IP/IT practice.

Kathleen Paisley is a leading international arbitration expert and has acted in arbitrations and mediations of commercial and investor-State disputes under all the major international arbitration rules with a particular focus on IP and complex technology disputes. On the litigation side, among other things, she has run major international patent litigations for Fortune 50 technology clients.

She combines her contentious practice with a robust IP/IT commercial practice advising on all aspects of the exploitation and protection of intellectual property and technology, most recently including a € 1 billion licensing transaction.

She was a legal advisor to the American arbitrators at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in the Hague, and combines a degree from the Yale Law School with an MBA in Finance and has passed the Certified Public Accountancy exam.