Thouvenin Rechtsanwälte

Arbitration, Litigation, Corporate and Commercial, Insolvency and Restructuring.

Michael Bösch has been a Partner with Thouvenin Rechtsanwälte since 2011. He is specialized in international commercial, investment treaty and sport arbitration, in particular under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution but also ad hoc. In doing so, Michael acts primarily as counsel, increasingly also as arbitrator. In addition, he represents clients in state litigation.

His additional expertise is corporate and commercial law where he represents domestic and foreign clients. He is a board member of several companies and acts as a secretary to the board of Zahnärztekasse AG and EOS Schweiz AG.

Since many years, Lexology recommends Michael Bösch for arbitration and litigation. Legal500 also recommends Michael Bösch for litigation as well as for corporate, commercial and M&A.

At the firm, Michael Bösch served as Managing Partner from 2022 until the end of 2025. Previously, he was HR manager and then responsible for the firm’s marketing/business development.

Since 2011     Partner, Thouvenin Rechtsanwälte KLG, Zurich

2005 - 2010    Associate, Thouvenin Rechtsanwälte KLG, Zurich

2003 - 2004    Associate, Wilms & Ruggle, Zurich

2001 - 2002    Court clerk at the District Court of Hinwil

2000 - 2001    Junior Associate, Wenger & Vieli AG, Zurich

German, English, French

Zurich and Swiss Bar Association Swiss Arbitration Association Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) International Bar Association (IBA) Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) 

2013              Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)

2012              Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)

2005              Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, Master of Laws in International Legal Studies with a special emphasis on dispute resolution (LL.M.)

2003              Admitted to the Zurich Bar (all Swiss courts)

2000              University of Fribourg, Master of Law (lic. iur.)

Professional Activities 

Global chair Arbitration & ADR of the elite law firm network Interlaw (since 2018) 

Co-founder and member of the expert committee "Digitalization" of the Swiss Bar Association (since 2017) 

Delegate of the Zurich Bar Association (since 2012) 

Co-founder and committee member of the Zurich Bar Association below 40 (2008 - 2015)