Anja Vogt
Partner
Anja has extensive experience in representing clients of various industry sectors, including energy, financial services, high-tech manufacturing, construction and retail in complex cross-border state–court and commercial arbitration proceedings. She often advises and represents clients in post-M&A, joint venture, corporate and general commercial disputes. In addition, Anja regularly represents clients in regulatory litigations as well as judicial assistance, administrative and white-collar criminal proceedings.
Anja is listed as «up and coming» arbitration counsel by Chambers Global (2024), as «next generation partner» in arbitration and «rising star» in litigation by Legal 500 (2024), recommended as future leader in commercial litigation by Who’s Who Legal (WWL) and awarded rising star in commercial arbitration at the IFLR Rising Star Awards EMEA 2022. In addition, she has been shortlisted for Commercial Arbitration Lawyer of the year and as Arbitration Rising Star for the Women in Business Law Awards 2023 EMEA.
Before founding 5Gambit Disputes in 2023, Anja was a partner with Niederer Kraft Frey in Zurich and worked as a foreign associate at Cleary Gottlieb in London.
Contact
Telephone
+41 44 442 03 62
Mobile
+41 79 373 26 02
What clients say
«Anja is highly intelligent and very thorough; her preparation is second to none. She has a superb grasp of detail and an outstanding ability to produce highest quality drafting. A huge asset to any team.»
(Legal 500 2023)
«Anja Vogt is a very bright, thorough and extremely diligent young lawyer. She is exceptionally fast, very well prepared and knows every case inside out. Anja is a sublime drafter and has impressive advocacy skills.»
(Legal 500 2023)
«Anja Vogt is a very bright and switched-on practitioner with a meticulous attention-to-detail. She is always on top of the case and knows exactly how to distil a case into a written document.»
(Legal 500 2023)
«Anja Vogt is super bright, incredibly hard working and outstandingly sharp. She has an intense attention to detail and her drafting skills are simply immaculate. She is very reliable and truly an asset to any case.»
(Legal 500 2023)
«Anja Vogt is a very bright and switched-on practitioner with a meticulous attention-to-detail. She is always on top of the case and knows exactly how to distil a case into a written document. Anja combines brain power, hard work, detailed knowledge of the case and the law and sheer talent. She is clearly exceptionally clever. Anja is a pristine drafter, with an impressive grasp of the detail.»
(Legal 500 2023)
«Anja Vogt is lauded as “a very smart and highly skilled litigator” whose advice is as analytical as it is precise»
(Who’s Who Legal 2022)
«Anja Vogt is extremely pleasant to work with, very committed, a huge talent and always helpful.»
(Legal 500 2022)
«Tamir Livschitz and Anja Vogt are both very good, broad-minded lawyers, they have a fighting spirit and always attempt to best serve their clients.»
(Legal 500 2021)
Recent experience
State-court litigation:
- Acting for three major US-based crypto venture capital firms on a USD 200 million claim related to their participation in a decentralized exchange.
- Acting for one of largest Swiss retailers in a commercial dispute in relation to post-M&A litigation brought in the aftermath of a takeover of a competitor.
- Acting for one of the largest steel manufacturer in a EUR 200 million-shareholder dispute.
- Acting for one of the largest players in the Swiss retail industry in a corporate dispute brought by a shareholder.
- Acting for an investment company in a USD 300 million corporate dispute related to an Italian insurance company.
- Acting for a leading Swiss provider for infrastructure services in a post-M&A litigation against an international insurance company.
- Acting for a Swiss based commodities trader in its defamation/KYC-related lawsuit against one of the largest global data processers.
- Acting for an ultra high net worth individual in his defamation/KYC-related lawsuit against a Swiss non-for profit organization.
- Acting for a Swiss listed provider of structured products in a USD 40 million dispute against a Swiss private bank.
Regulatory litigation:
- Acting for a Swiss financial institution against FINMA (including in appeals proceedings before the Swiss Federal Administrative Court) concerning the scope of legal aid granted to another governmental agency.
- Acting for an ultra-high net worth individual against the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) (including in appeals proceedings before the Swiss Federal Administrative Court) objecting to an unlawful denial of a residential permit.
- Acting for various ultra high net worth individuals against the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in relation to the de-freezing of assets under various sanctions regimes and the obtaining of licenses or negative clearance confirmations.
- Acting for a Swedish defense contractor against the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) alleging the unlawful withdrawal of export control licenses.
International arbitration:
- Acting for an international sports federation on a USD 80 million claim brought against it by one of its member association in relation to the hosting of an international event.
- Acting for one of the leading global technology solutions provider in the food processing and air transportation industries in an ICC arbitration brought by a Swiss food manufacturer.
- Acting for an international sports federation on a USD 320 million claim brought by a media rights distributor related to broadcasting rights for a global sports event.
- Acting for one of the leading Asian private equity fund in a Swiss Rules arbitration concerning a post-M&A dispute related to a USD 80 million contract.
- Acting for an Israeli-based biotech-company on its USD 180 million Swiss Rules arbitration claim brought against a US based services provider.
- Acting for one of the largest Spanish construction companies in a EUR 115 million FIDIC arbitration commenced by its Finnish client related to delays in the construction of a power plant.
Bar Admissions
Switzerland
Languages
- German
- English
- French
- Russian
Education
- MLaw, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- BLaw, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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