HabeggerArbitration

About

Philipp Habegger is a Swiss attorney and a highly respected figure in international commercial arbitration. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in over 240 inter­national arbitration proceedings around the world in a variety of sectors including tele­­communications, pharmaceutical, energy and commodity trading.

Habegger Arbitration
Mühlebachstrasse 173
CH–8008 Zürich

T +41 44 269 66 22

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Dr. iur. Philipp Habegger, LL.M.

Dr. iur. Philipp Habegger, LL.M.
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“Philipp is simply one of the best" "He is a dynamic arbitrator with a hands-on approach" "Philipp does his work passionately and efficiently - he is an excellent chair”
— Lexology Index 2025 (formerly Who’s Who Legal)

“An international commercial arbitration specialist who is ‘one of the leading figures in the space’ according to one impressed peer”
— Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2018

“A ‘very experienced’ arbitrator according to interviewees”
— Chambers Europe 2017

“Valued by clients for his great ability to ‘dig deep’ into a case ‘in order to understand it in its entirety’”
— Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2017

“Ranked amongst Europe’s 60 most in demand arbitrators”
— Chambers Europe 2017

“Amongst Switzerland’s five most highly regarded arbitration practitioners”
— Who’s Who Legal Switzerland 2017

Before opening HabeggerArbitration, Dr Philipp Habegger was for many years a partner at leading Swiss law firms in Zurich.

He now mainly sits as arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than 240 arbitration proceedings under a variety of arbitration rules, including ICC, Swiss Arbitration Centre (Swiss Rules), LCIA, DIS, SIAC, VIAC, AAA/ICDR, SCC, Finland Arbitration Institute and UNCITRAL, involving the substantive laws of Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, England & Wales, Russia, India, Turkey, Panama, The Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Serbia, Greece, Malta, Albania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Egypt, South Korea, Japan, Finland, New York and California, as well as the UN Sales Convention (CISG) and the UNIDROIT Principles. He has been involved in disputes arising, inter alia, out of joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders’ agreements, international sales and related transactions, agency and distribution, licensing, franchising, construction and engineering projects, across a wide range of industries including telecommunications, automobiles, aviation, railways, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, food, defence, machinery, oil & gas, energy, construction, and commodity trading.

Philipp Habegger is a past president of the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre (which administers the Swiss Rules). He is a former court member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2009- 2015) and a former vice chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association and vice president of the LCIA European Users' Council. Philipp Habegger has been ranked for several years by Chambers Europe and Chambers Global for Dispute Resolution: Arbitration in Switzerland and The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration.

He was educated at Zurich University (lic iur 1989, Dr iur 1996) and at University of Chicago Law School (LLM 1994). He is admitted to the Swiss bar since 1992 and has also practised law as a foreign attorney in New York. He speaks German, English and French.

Until 2022 Philipp Habegger taught international arbitration and international sales (CISG) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich. He acted as a course director for the Swiss Arbitration Academy.