Attorney, Senior Counsel

Christer Söderlund is Senior Counsel at Morssing & Nycander. He joined the firm in January 2017 after four decades at Advokatfirman Vinge, where he served as both Partner and Senior Counsel. Christer is a highly regarded expert in international arbitration. He served on the Board of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) from 2007 to 2009 and was appointed by the Swedish Government in 2006 as a member of ICSID’s Panel of Arbitrators, a mandate extended until 2018. He is also listed on the panels of several arbitration institutions, including the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration, Kazakhstani International Arbitrage, Beijing Arbitration Commission, Polish Chamber of Commerce, and the ICDR Energy Arbitrators’ List.

Christer’s practice has a global reach, with a focus on investment disputes and the energy sector. He has acted as arbitrator under various arbitration regimes, including SCC, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, and ICSID.

Christers verksamhet har global räckvidd, med fokus på investeringstvister och energisektorn. Han har agerat skiljedomare under ett flertal skiljedomsregimer, såsom SCC, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC och ICSID.

Experience

• 2017–present: Morssing & Nycander Law Firm, Stockholm
• 2016: Magnusson Law Firm
• 1972–2015: Vinge Law Firm, Stockholm

Selected Professional Appointments

Cases Involving States

Participation in ICSID ad hoc Committees:

• Sempra Energy International v. Argentina (Chair)
• Eduardo Vieira v. Chile (Chair)
• Continental Casualty Company v. Argentina (Committee Member)
• Quiborax et al. v. Bolivia (Committee Member)

Chair of ICSID Tribunals:

• OJSC Blue Bank v. Venezuela
• Cementos v. Egypt

Other:

• Amto v. Ukraine, arbitrator (Energy Charter Treaty)
• Bogdanova v. Moldova, sole arbitrator (SCC)

Selected Publications

• Straddling the Divide Between Lawful and Unlawful Expropriation in International Law, Stockholm Arbitration Yearbook 2023
• Setting Aside of Arbitral Awards in Sweden and Switzerland – Some Comparisons (in Swedish), Juridisk Tidskrift 2019–20, p. 740
• Is There Such a Thing as Admissibility in Investment Arbitration?, ICSID Review, Vol. 0, No. 0 (2018), pp. 1–35
• Dissenting Opinions and Why They Should Be Tolerated, Juridisk Tidskrift, 2017–18 No. 3
• Third Party Funding in Arbitral Proceedings (in Swedish), Juridisk Tidskrift 2015–16, p. 959
• Compensation under International Law in Cases of Treaty Breach Resulting in Impairment of Business Performance, The Journal of World Investment & Trade 13 (2012)
• Intra-EU BIT Investment Protection and the EC Treaty, Transnational Dispute Management, April 2007
• State Subsidies and Public Policy, Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence, Vol. 5, Issue 2, April 2007
• New Arbitration Rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Ukrainian Journal of Business Law, 2007, pp. 36–37
• Multi-Modal Dispute Resolution Clauses, Mezhdunarodny Kommerchesky Arbitrazh, No. 3, 2006 (in Russian)
• Multiple Judicial Proceedings and the Energy Charter Treaty, in Investment Arbitration and the Energy Charter Treaty, JurisNet, 2006
• Lis Pendens, Res Judicata and the Issue of Parallel Judicial Proceedings, Journal of International Arbitration, Vol. 22 No. 4, August 2005
• The Valuation of Lost Profits – Finding It Right, The Journal of World Investment and Trade, Vol. 6, February 2005
• Foreign Investments and Arbitration with a Sovereign State, Mezhdunarodny Kommerchesky Arbitrazh, No. 2, 2005 (in Russian)
• When Is an Award Deemed to Have Been Rendered in Sweden?, Stockholm International Arbitration Review, 2005:2
• Vergleichender Überblick zur Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit in Deutschland, England, Russland und Schweden, Zeitschrift für Schiedsverfahren, 3/2004

Publications cont’d

• Recognition of Foreign Arbitration Awards: Swedish Practice, Mezhdunarodny Kommerchesky Arbitrazh, No. 4, 2004 (in Russian)
• A Valid Agreement to Arbitrate?, Yearbook 1996 of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Juridisk Tidskrift 1997–98, p. 227

Education

LL.M., Stockholm University, 1969

Languages

• Swedish (native), English, Spanish, Russian, French, and German

Memberships

• Swedish Bar Association