Daria Solenik

Dr. iur., LL.M. Attorney-at-law (recognised by the Paris bar, recognised by the Canton of Vaud bar)

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

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.

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)

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.

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