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Réka
Papp
Special Counsel
Geneva
+41 (0) 22 555 82 20
CV (English)
Expertise
International arbitration
International investment law
Private international law and international contracts
Professional background
Counsel at the Arbitration Office of Professor Pierre Tercier
Senior Lecturer, MIDS, Geneva
Associate at an Austrian boutique law firm
Teaching Assistant and PhD student at the Université de Lorraine, France
Intern at the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court)
Education
PhD, Université de Lorraine, France
Master’s Degree in International Commercial Law, Université de Lorraine, France
Degree in law (J.D.), University of ELTE, Budapest, Hungary
Languages
English
French
Hungarian
German
Professional affiliations
Swiss Arbitration Association
Hungarian Arbitration Association
Arbitration Association of Central and Eastern Europe
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Fellow)
ArbitralWomen
Réka’s practice focuses on international arbitration and related court proceedings primarily in relation to distribution and sales contracts, joint ventures and SPAs in the energy, construction, pharmaceutical, aviation and mining sectors.

She has handled complex and high-stakes arbitral proceedings under various rules (ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCC, Swiss Rules, CAS) as tribunal secretary, counsel and arbitrator.

Réka is included in the list of candidates for arbitrator appointments under the European Union‘s trade agreements.
Details of recent activities
Acted as arbitrator in an ICC arbitration seated in France involving a share-purchase agreement in the energy sector

Acted as arbitrator in an ICC arbitration seated in Switzerland concerning a distribution agreement involving American and Indian parties

Acted as arbitrator in a SAC arbitration seated in Switzerland concerning a sales contract for raw material involving parties from Egypt and Lebanon

Represented two Panamanian companies in a multi-party arbitration seated in Switzerland

Acted as co-counsel on Swiss law matters in an LCIA arbitration in the technology sector

Represented a Russian mining company in a Swiss-seated ICC arbitration

Provided strategic litigation advice under Swiss law to a Polish pharmaceutical company Represented a medical diagnostic company in a Swiss-seated arbitration
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Conferences
Presentation at the inaugural Budapest Arbitration Days on the panel ‘New Technologies in Arbitration: Electronic Arbitral Awards, AI and beyond’, February 2026

Presentation of certain aspects of international arbitration in the framework of the Arbitration Systems and ADR class at the Master of Laws in International Trade Law, ITCILO, University of Turin since 2019

Summer course at the World Trade Institute entitled ‘International Contracts Regarding Cross-Borders Trade and Investment’ 2023-2025
Publications
Enforcement of arbitral awards in Switzerland, LexisNexis

Competing Governments and State Representation before International Arbitral Tribunals, AJIL Unbound, 2025

‘Contract termination’ in Mauro Rubino Sammartano and Troy Harris, Major issues in International Construction Law, Wiley, 2025, co-authored with Marlena Harutyunyan