Franz T Schwarz is a partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in London and vice chair of the firm’s international arbitration group. He has been involved in more than 200 arbitrations as arbitrator or counsel, and has extensive experience with arbitral practice, procedure and advocacy both in civil and common law systems. Mr Schwarz has represented clients in proceedings and before all major arbitral institutions and numerous seats, and frequently advises parties on the protection of foreign investments under bilateral investment treaties and similar instruments.
Mr Schwarz lectures international arbitration at the Universities of Vienna, Zurich and Saarbrücken, and frequently speaks and publishes on topical issues of international arbitration. Mr Schwarz was awarded the inaugural Swiss Arbitration Association’s (ASA) Prize for Advocacy in International Arbitration in 2010.
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