Avocates et Avocats Francesca Borio
Francesca Borio

Francesca Borio

Senior Associate
MLaw, Avocate

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Zurich

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Téléphone direct: +41 58 658 57 61
francesca.borio@walderwyss.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Domaines d'activité: Contentieux Arbitrage

Francesca Borio is a senior associate in the Litigation and Arbitration Team. She advises and represents clients in both domestic and international arbitrations, before state courts as well as in enforcement proceedings and legal assistance matters.

Francesca Borio’s expertise covers complex cases involving different jurisdictions, authorities and languages. Her practice spans a wide range of commercial disputes, with a particular emphasis on contract law, construction law and corporate law. She has acted as counsel and tribunal secretary both in institutional arbitrations (including Swiss Rules, ICC and WIPO) and ad-hoc arbitrations.

Francesca Borio is a member of various professional organizations, Co-Chair of the Swiss Very Young Arbitration Practitioners (Swiss VYAP) and the coordinator of the Swiss chapter of AA-40 (the Italian under 40 Arbitration Group).

Francesca Borio studied at the University of Fribourg (BLaw 2015; MLaw 2017; with special mentions in «European Law» and «bilingual» [German-French]) as well as at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London. During her studies she worked as a student research assistant for Prof. Franz Werro at the Chair of the Law of Obligations and private European Law at the University of Fribourg. Prior to joining Walder Wyss as an attorney at law, she worked as a trainee lawyer at the Civil Court of the canton of Basel-Stadt, at the Basel and Lugano offices of Walder Wyss and at a legal protection insurance company. Francesca Borio was admitted to the bar in 2019 in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. From 2023 to 2025, she held a teaching assignment at the University of Zurich. In 2024, she also gained further experience at a major commercial law firm in Milan, Italy.

Francesca Borio's is fluent in German, English, Italian and French and has basic knowledge of Spanish. She is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Swiss courts.

International Arbitration: Switzerland

| par Chloé Terrapon Chassot, Lukas Fellmann, Francesca Borio et Mirella Janett | dans: Lexology

ICC YAAF: Enforcement of Arbitral Awards – Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

| Conférencière Francesca Borio | Warsaw, Poland

The Art of Getting it Wrong: How to Handle Common Mistakes in Everyday Practice

| Conférencière Francesca Borio | ASA below 40 | Zurich, Switzerland

Mastering the Maze of International Arbitration and International Sanctions: Selected Aspects of the Impact of Sanctions on the Conduct of International Arbitration Proceedings in Switzerland and the EU

| par Katherine Bell, Nassim Ben Brahim, Yaël Nahmani et Francesca Borio | dans: The Future of Swiss Arbitration

Joining a third-party funder

| Conférenciers Francesca Borio et Olivia Furter | Interview Series on Career Paths in International Arbitration by Swiss VYAP & YAWP | Online

Commentary on Article 180a and 180b of the PILS

| par Diana Akikol et Francesca Borio | dans: Simon Gabriel/ Marco Stacher (edit.) | «Berner Kommentar, Internationale Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, Art. 176-194 IPRG sowie Art. 7 und 196 IPRG» | Bern

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