Vanessa Liborio
About Vanessa
Vanessa Liborio Garrido de Sousa is a Partner in HFW’s Commodities team, specialising in arbitration.
She is a multilingual arbitration lawyer with over 20 years of experience focusing on complex, high-value disputes involving major infrastructure construction projects, consortia and joint venture agreements, sales of goods, collateral management agreements, life sciences, telecommunications and consultancy agreements.
A leading arbitration practitioner, Vanessa is well known for her consistently excellent dispute resolution work. Vanessa regularly acts as counsel in international arbitration proceedings before the ICC, LCIA, the Swiss Arbitration Centre and other international fora and subject to a variety of procedural and substantive laws (including English, French, Italian, Qatari, New York, Mexican, Swiss and Tunisian law). Described by clients as an “excellent” lawyer who delivers “very high-quality legal services” (Legal 500), Vanessa has also represented parties in setting aside proceedings before the Swiss Supreme Court and regularly acts as party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator of chair in arbitrations worldwide.
In addition to her activities as arbitrator and counsel, Vanessa serves as a member of the ICC’s Commission on Arbitration & ADR and member of the Swiss Arbitration Centre Court. Beyond her activities in the field of arbitration, Vanessa advises on export control regulations and economic sanctions administered by the European Union and Switzerland, including matters relating to customs regulations, anti-money laundering rules and anti-boycott requirements and regularly provides advice to clients on Swiss substantive law, particularly in contract law.