Daniela Franchini joined the Firm in October 2025 as a partner. Daniela’s practice focuses primarily on international arbitration and commercial litigation. She act as counsel and arbitrator in complex commercial disputes, relating among others to M&A, joint ventures, shareholder agreements, and various commercial contracts such as sales-purchases, service agreements, distribution, license, agency, franchising. She also assists parties in pre-arbitration phases and in post-arbitral annulment and enforcement proceedings. Daniela’s experience spans various industries, including telecommunications, trading, construction, oil & gas, infrastructure, transport, shipbuilding, engineering, pharma, life sciences, food and beverage.
2025: Partner at Gaggini & Partners
2024: Sole Practitioner at Franchini Arbitration in Lugano
2023: Counsel at Niederer Kraft & Frey in Geneva
2020: Partner at Tavernier Tschanz in Geneva
2011: Associate at Studio Tavernier Tschanz in Geneva
2011: Admitted to the Swiss Bar
2009/2010: Trainee at Tavernier Tschanz in Geneva
2009: Master of Law at the University of Fribourg (CH)
2007: Bachelor of Law at the University of Fribourg (CH)
Member of the Bar Association of the Canton of Ticino
Member of the Swiss Bar Association
Member of the Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre (since 2022)
Member of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) and ASA Local Group Svizzera Italiana (GASI)
Member of Associazione Italiana per l’Arbitrato (AIA)
Member of ArbitralWomen
Member of Associazione Italiana Giuristi di Lingua Italiana (AIGLI)
Italian, English, French, German, Spanish (basic knowledge)
Commentary to Art 1 and 2 Swiss Rules, in: Swiss Rules of International Arbitration – Commentary, 3rd ed., 2023 (co-author)
Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère, in: Revue de l’Arbitrage, 4/2022 (co-author)
Yearly review of Swiss arbitration cases, in: Rivista dell'Arbitrato, 4-2019, 1-2022, 2-2023
Yearly review of Swiss arbitration cases, in: Turkish Journal of International Trade and Arbitration Law, 2014-2021 (co-author)
L’ammissibilità di consulenti esterni del tribunale arbitrale nel diritto svizzero, in: Rivista dell’arbitrato, 2-2016 (co-author)
Speaker, “Italy and Switzerland: A Comparative Perspective on Recent Arbitration Law Reforms – Provisional Measures”, AIA-ArbIt-40 – Swiss Chapter, online, 26 April 2022
