James F Reardon’s practice focuses on complex international litigation and arbitration, as well as on a variety of regulatory matters, in particular in the fields of sanctions, competition, and banking and finance. He is the co-head of the firm’s investigations and compliance industry group. He has been involved in several arbitration proceedings under various institutional rules (ICC, Swiss Rules) as well as in ad hoc proceedings relating to distribution, commercial and partnership matters. He also advises companies on sanctions- and compliance-related matters and represents them in annulment proceedings and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. He also represents clients in commercial litigation before public courts in Switzerland.
Trained in both civil and common law, he holds a doctor of laws in competition law and is admitted to the Bar of the Canton of Geneva (Switzerland) and to the Bar of the District of Columbia (United States).
James regularly publishes in his practice areas, particularly in sanctions, complex litigation and anti-corruption. He also speaks and gives lectures in those areas: as of 2020, he teaches anti-corruption and anti-money laundering as a lecturer at the Institute for International Business Law of the Faculty of Law at the University of Fribourg (LLM programme). As of 2023, he teaches economic sanctions in that same programme.
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