Dr Paolo Michele Patochhi is one of the founding partners of Patocchi and Marzolini, a leading law firm specialising in international arbitration in Geneva. He shares his perspectives as an arbitrator and counsel on the differences between acting as an arbitrator and a dispute-handling professional as well as the benefits and disadvantages of med-arb (a hybrid two-stage ADR process. He talks about the Singapore and New York Conventions, his teaching at Bilkent University in Ankara and his contribution towards the special relationship between Turkey and Switzerland. He talks fondly about wanting to grow and support the international arbitration community at large and how supporting students to gain experience abroad is so important. We learn how what started as a small arbitration community has now grown into a generation of young experienced arbitration lawyers in Turkey and may continue to keep growing.