On April 27, 2016, a seminar was organized by Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution with the support of the Tehran Regional Arbitration Centre (TRAC) at the Iran Chamber of Commerce. This event was a unique occasion to learn and discuss about the comparative advantages of the international arbitration in Iran (TRAC Rules) and in Switzerland.

The seminar was composed of one opening remarks and two panels. In the first panel, the rules of two arbitration institutions (the Swiss Chambers Arbitration Institution and the Tehran Regional Arbitration Centre) were presented and the subject of the second panel was a comparative vision of the international arbitration in Switzerland and in Iran.

The speakers were Guillo Haas (Swiss Ambassador in Iran), Vincent Subilia ( Deputy Head of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce), Dr. Homayoon Arfazadeh (Partner of Python & Peter Law firm), Caroline Ming (Executive Director & General Counsel of SCAI), Dr. Moshkan Mashkour (Partner of Sanglaj International Consultants), Dr. Martin Bukhardt (Partner of Lenz & Staehlin Law Firm), Dr. Oveis Rezvanian (Director of TRAC), Frank Spporenbert (Partner of Tavernier Tschanz Law Firm), Dr. Mohsen Mohebbi (Head of CILA), Jamal Seifi (Judge at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal), Christoph Mueller (Professor at the University of Neuchâtel) and Dr. Sébastien Besson (Partner of Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler Law Firm).