Bücheler, Gebhard

Partner at Seven Summits Arbitration

• Since 2017: Seven Summits Arbitration, Munich
• 2013 - 2017: Wach und Meckes, Munich
• 2010 - 2013: Freshfields, International Arbitration Group, Paris
• 2008 - 2010: Institute of International Law, LMU Munich

With over 15 years of experience as counsel in international arbitration, Gebhard has advised a broad range of clients across a variety of industries, including energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and private equity. Gebhard has also served as presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator, and mediator. Qualified in the United States and Germany, Gebhard has acted in numerous high-value investment and commercial disputes with seats in Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Zurich, and other major venues. His matters have involved a variety of civil and common law systems, as well as public international law, and have ranged from post-M&A disputes and arbitrations under gas and utility supply contracts to disputes arising from other long-term agreements such as IP-licensing contracts. The European Commission lists Gebhard as an individual suitable for appointment as an arbitrator and trade and sustainable development (TSD) expert in disputes under the EU’s trade agreements with third countries.

• Proportionality, Standards of Investment Protection, and Sustainable Development in Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development (Edward Elgar, 2025) 164-198, with Eric Belgorodski
• Germany: Investor-State Arbitration – Laws and Regulations 2022, in International Comparative Legal Guides (Global Legal Group, 2021), with Gustav Flecke-Giammarco & Martina Magnarelli
• Arbitrating in Uncertain Times – Institutional Responses to COVID-19, SchiedsVZ 2020, 133-138, with Gustav Flecke-Giammarco and Lena Zahner
• Arbitration Procedures and Practice in Germany, in Practical Law (Thomson Reuters, 2018), with Gustav Flecke-Giammarco
• Die Behauptung trotz Nichtwissens—Der „Vortrag ins Blaue hinein” zwischen Verfassungsrecht und Rechtsmissbrauch, in Fairness – Justice – Equity, Festschrift für Reinhold Geimer zum 80. Geburtstag (Beck, 2017), with Karl Wach
• Proportionality in Investor-State Arbitration (Oxford University Press, 2015)

Teaching international law at LMU Munich (since 2019). Regular guest lectures on international arbitration at the University of St. Gallen (since 2016).