Michele Potestà is a partner at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler. He specializes in international commercial and investment arbitration, as well as public international law, acting as counsel, arbitrator and expert in complex investment and commercial matters. In the last decade, Michele participated in over 50 international investment and commercial arbitrations under all major arbitral rules (including ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, Swiss Arbitration Center, CAM, SIAC, DIAC, Danish Institute of Arbitration and CAS), and in disputes governed by a variety of procedural and substantive laws (including Swiss, Italian, French, Spanish, U.S., Danish, Panamanian, Venezuelan, U.A.E., Kazakhstani, Greek, Singaporean, Iranian and Egyptian). He has specific experience in disputes relating to energy and natural resources (oil, gas, mining and solar energy), real estate and construction, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, international sales, banking and finance, shareholders disputes, aviation, IT and agency contracts. He frequently acts in arbitrations involving states and state entities. Michele has advised sovereign states on their investment treaty programs and currently acts as expert advisor to the Swiss Government in the inter-State negotiations on the reform of investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”) in UNCITRAL’s Working Group III.
