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Daria Solenik

Dr. iur., LL.M. Attorney-at-law (recognised by the Paris bar, recognised by the Canton of Vaud bar)
  • French
  • English
  • Russian
  • German
  • Belarusian
  • Polish
  • Ukrainian
Daria Solenik

Practice areas

Education

  • European Humanities University (Minsk), LL.B International Law, 2000-2004
  • University of Lorraine (France), MAS European Comparative Law, 2005
  • University de Lorraine (France), Doctorate in Law and Criminal Sciences, 2012
  • Queen Mary University of London, LL.M International Commercial Arbitration, 2014
  • Admission to the bar (France), 2014

Practice

  • Teaching assistant, University of Lorraine, 2005-2009; 
  • Legal expert, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2007-2013;
  • Legal expert, European Commission, Brussels, 2007-2008;
  • Legal expert, United Nations, UNDP, Minsk, 2008-2009; 
  • Employee charged with legal tasks, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, 2008-2013; 
  • Internships at law firms in Paris and Lausanne, 2013-2014;
  • Employee at a law firm in Lausanne, 2015-2018; 
  • Employee at SwissLegal in Lausanne since 1 September 2018; 
  • Associate professor, European Humanities University (Lithuania), since 2007;
  • Visiting professor, University of Bordeaux IV, since 2018.
  • Employee at SwissLegal in Lausanne since 1 September 2018.

Further information

  • Free Movement of Laws in the European Union, Annuaire suisse de droit européen 2007/2008, Zurich 2008, pp. 355-371 (in French)
  • Possibility and terms for applying Brussels I Regulation (recast) to extra-EU disputes: France, in A.BONOMI et al. (ed.), Possibility and terms for applying Brussels I Regulation (recast) to extra-EU disputes – Study for the European Parliament, Brussels, 2014, pp. 64-80
  • La loi étrangère dans le contentieux judiciaire européen, Thèse de doctorat, EurAsian Scientific Editions, Tallinn/Hong Kong 2015
  • La Mondialisation et les investissements, Rapport suisse à l'Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française , Paris 2016
  • Arbitration in Switzerland : what a practicing lawyer needs to know about SCAI, Juriste (Юрист), 7/2017 (in Russian)

Recent Cases

  • Counselling and representation of National Sport Federations and athletes on the occasion of Olympic Games and International Championships, namely in matters of violation of the World Anti-Doping Code
  • ICC Arbitration (seat in Zurich) relating to investment in construction of multiple sea-river cargo vessels in China (dispute value : USD 12 million);
  • ICC Arbitration (seat in Zurich) relating to an illicit sale of a sea-going cargo vessel in Turkey (dispute value: USD 12.5 million);
  • ICC Arbitration (seat in Geneva) relating to shipping equipment of to a Gas Field in Iran by Korean and Turkish contractors  (dispute value : USD 30 million);
  • HKIAC Arbitration (seat in Hong Kong) relating to an investment agreement in an wine retail company in Hong-Kong (dispute value : USD 1.5 million);
  • Court of Arbitration for Sports, Appeal Arbitration proceedings for an alleged anti-doping violation by a Belarussian athlete;
  • Court of Arbitration for Sports, Ad hoc division for the Olympic Games in Rio 2016, proceedings for an alleged anti-doping violation by a Russian athlete;
  • Swiss Federal Tribunal, partial annulment of an award of the Court of Arbitration for Sports on the grounds of violation of the athlete’s right to be heard.