About

Bersheda Law is a boutique law firm specializing in complex international litigation and strategic advice.

 

Founder

Tetiana Bersheda

Tetiana, the founding partner of Bersheda Law, has been in charge of litigation management in various multi-billion cross-jurisdictional disputes including the largest divorces, inheritance, trust and banking disputes of the last fifteen years. She has saved several billion to her clients in cases where she acted as the lead counsel and won appeals before Swiss courts.

 
 

Tetiana’s experience includes:

  • Securing an appeal against a multi-billion first instance award by dividing it by eight before the Geneva courts

  • Providing strategy advice over a four-year period to a family involved in a multi-billion divorce dispute before Monaco courts which has become an inheritance dispute with ancillary proceedings in Switzerland, UK, Panama and several other jurisdictions

  • Providing strategy advice in relation to a multi-billion family dispute before Monaco courts raising issues of Swiss inheritance law

  • Acting as a lead counsel to the heirs of one of the victims of Patrice Lescaudron fraud against CreditSuisse in Switzerland

  • Acting as counsel to Beshay Steel group, the largest privately owned steel producer in Egypt and the Middle East, against a Swiss company in ICC arbitration proceedings with the seat in Geneva

  • Acting as counsel for a Monaco-based defendant in a construction arbitration initiated by a Turkish company under the Swiss Rules with the seat in Geneva, including representation in the appeal proceedings before the Swiss Federal Court

  • Acting as counsel for a Cypriot company in a commercial arbitration against another Cypriot company under the ICC  Rules with the seat in Zurich, including representation in the appeal proceedings before the Swiss Federal Court

  • Acting as counsel for a family-owned Iraqi company in the ICC arbitration proceedings with the seat in Geneva relating to a US-army non-military support procurement contract and securing a settlement

Before starting her counsel work, Tetiana acted as a secretary to numerous arbitral tribunals chaired by Prof. Pierre Tercier, Dr. Laurent Levy and Prof. Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler under ICC Rules, LCIA Rules, SCC Rules and UNCITRAL Rules. She continues to appear as a sole arbitrator, as a co-arbitrator and as a legal expert including in commercial and sports arbitration disputes under the ICC Rules, the Swiss Rules, the UNCITRAL Rules, the TAS-CAS and the Rules of ICAC-MKAS (Ukraine).

Tetiana holds a PhD in law summa cum laude from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and has taught company law at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Geneva for over two years. She has published extensively in the leading Swiss and international legal journals in the field of arbitration, company and bankruptcy law and banking law.

Tetiana is an avocat admitted to practice in Switzerland since 2007 and is a Registered European Lawyer (REL) regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) since 2019. She holds a PhD (2007) and a licence en droit from the University of Fribourg and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. Her CV can be found here.