Anja Vogt
Partner
Anja represents clients across various industries, including energy, financial services, high-tech manufacturing, construction and retail, in complex cross-border litigation and commercial arbitration. She regularly advises and represents clients in post-M&A, joint venture, corporate and general commercial disputes. Anja also has extensive experience in appellate advocacy and frequently represents clients before cantonal courts and the Swiss Federal Tribunal in both civil and administrative matters.
Anja has particularly strong experience in economic sanctions matters. She advises individuals and companies on Swiss sanctions regimes and represents clients in delisting proceedings, negative clearance proceedings and other regulatory proceedings before SECO, as well as in subsequent appeals before the Swiss Federal Administrative Court and the Swiss Federal Tribunal. She also advises on sanctions-related issues in contentious and transactional contexts and regularly represents parties in civil proceedings involving sanctions-related questions.
Anja is listed as «Global Elite Thought Leader» in commercial litigation (under 45, partners) by Lexology Index (2026), «Up and Coming» in arbitration and litigation by Chambers Global and Europe (2026), «Next Generation Partner» in arbitration and litigation by Legal 500 (2026), and recommended as a Future Leader in commercial litigation by Lexology Index (2026).
Contact
Telephone
+41 44 442 03 62
Mobile
+41 79 373 26 02
What clients say
«Anja Vogt is an outstanding litigator who embodies everything clients look for in high-stakes disputes. She is bold, decisive and unafraid to take a clear position when others might hedge. Her advocacy skills are simply exceptional. Anja sees litigation as a chessboard: always several moves ahead, weighing risk and reward and aligning the legal strategy with our broader commercial objectives.»
(Legal 500 2026)
«Tamir Livschitz and Anja Vogt are the best litigation lawyers ever. We work a lot with them. Smart, deep sense for complex technology, understand the politics of corporate disputes. Fast and strategic.»
(Legal500 2026)
«Anja Vogt remains very calm and collected, and is an extremely able and highly experienced litigator.»
(Chambers Global 2026)
«Anja is excellent to work with. She is a terrific drafter who is very assertive and imaginative, as well as brilliant with clients.»
(Chambers Global 2026)
«Anja Vogt is an excellent lawyer with strong tactical skills.»
(Chambers Global 2026)
«Anja Vogt has been a reliable and responsive point of contact in our matters. She demonstrates strong attention to detail and her communication is clear and timely.»
(Chambers Global 2026)
«Anja Vogt is very responsive, hard-working and knows what the key points are. She knows the pros and cons of every situation.»
(Chambers Europe 2025)
«Anja is highly intelligent and very thorough; her preparation is second to none. She has a superb grasp of detail and an outstanding ability to produce highest quality drafting. A huge asset to any team.»
(Legal 500 2023)
«Anja Vogt is a very bright, thorough and extremely diligent young lawyer. She is exceptionally fast, very well prepared and knows every case inside out. Anja is a sublime drafter and has impressive advocacy skills.»
(Legal 500 2023)
«Anja Vogt is a very bright and switched-on practitioner with a meticulous attention-to-detail. She is always on top of the case and knows exactly how to distil a case into a written document.»
(Legal 500 2023)
«Anja Vogt is super bright, incredibly hard working and outstandingly sharp. She has an intense attention to detail and her drafting skills are simply immaculate. She is very reliable and truly an asset to any case.»
(Legal 500 2023)
«Anja Vogt is a very bright and switched-on practitioner with a meticulous attention-to-detail. She is always on top of the case and knows exactly how to distil a case into a written document. Anja combines brain power, hard work, detailed knowledge of the case and the law and sheer talent. She is clearly exceptionally clever. Anja is a pristine drafter, with an impressive grasp of the detail.»
(Legal 500 2023)
«Anja Vogt is lauded as “a very smart and highly skilled litigator” whose advice is as analytical as it is precise»
(Who’s Who Legal 2022)
«Anja Vogt is extremely pleasant to work with, very committed, a huge talent and always helpful.»
(Legal 500 2022)
«Tamir Livschitz and Anja Vogt are both very good, broad-minded lawyers, they have a fighting spirit and always attempt to best serve their clients.»
(Legal 500 2021)
Recent experience
State-court litigation:
- Acting for three major US-based crypto venture capital firms on a USD 200 million claim related to their participation in a decentralized exchange.
- Acting for one of largest Swiss retailers in a commercial dispute in relation to post-M&A litigation brought in the aftermath of a takeover of a competitor.
- Acting for one of the largest steel manufacturer in a EUR 200 million-shareholder dispute.
- Acting for one of the largest players in the Swiss retail industry in a corporate dispute brought by a shareholder.
- Acting for an investment company in a USD 300 million corporate dispute related to an Italian insurance company.
- Acting for a leading Swiss provider for infrastructure services in a post-M&A litigation against an international insurance company.
- Acting for a Swiss based commodities trader in its defamation/KYC-related lawsuit against one of the largest global data processers.
- Acting for an ultra high net worth individual in his defamation/KYC-related lawsuit against a Swiss non-for profit organization.
- Acting for a Swiss listed provider of structured products in a USD 40 million dispute against a Swiss private bank.
Regulatory litigation:
- Acting for a Swiss financial institution against FINMA (including in appeals proceedings before the Swiss Federal Administrative Court) concerning the scope of legal aid granted to another governmental agency.
- Acting for an ultra-high net worth individual against the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) (including in appeals proceedings before the Swiss Federal Administrative Court) objecting to an unlawful denial of a residential permit.
- Acting for various ultra high net worth individuals against the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in relation to the de-freezing of assets under various sanctions regimes and the obtaining of licenses or negative clearance confirmations.
- Acting for a Swedish defense contractor against the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) alleging the unlawful withdrawal of export control licenses.
International arbitration:
- Acting for an international sports federation on a USD 80 million claim brought against it by one of its member association in relation to the hosting of an international event.
- Acting for one of the leading global technology solutions provider in the food processing and air transportation industries in an ICC arbitration brought by a Swiss food manufacturer.
- Acting for an international sports federation on a USD 320 million claim brought by a media rights distributor related to broadcasting rights for a global sports event.
- Acting for one of the leading Asian private equity fund in a Swiss Rules arbitration concerning a post-M&A dispute related to a USD 80 million contract.
- Acting for an Israeli-based biotech-company on its USD 180 million Swiss Rules arbitration claim brought against a US based services provider.
- Acting for one of the largest Spanish construction companies in a EUR 115 million FIDIC arbitration commenced by its Finnish client related to delays in the construction of a power plant.
Bar Admissions
Switzerland
Languages
- German
- English
- French
- Russian
Education
- MLaw, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- BLaw, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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