Current activity

Since 1991 - Partner Niederer Kraft & Frey AG, Zurich

Professional focus

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  • Corporate, Commercial and Contract Law
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Banking Law

Areas of law

My career

  • 1978-1980: District Court of Meilen
  • 1979: Dr. iur., University of Zurich
  • 1980-1982: Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich
  • 1981: Admission to the Zurich Bar
  • 1982-1983: Associate with Zurich law firm
  • 1984: LL.M. (Cantab), University of Cambridge, England)
  • 1984: Associate with Niederer Kraft & Frey

Arbitration experience

Several proceedings as arbitrator or party representative, particularly in ad hoc arbitration, but also before the Zurich chamber of Commerce, the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and the ICC, mainly on Swiss substantive law

Publications

  • Basler Kommentar zum Bundesgesetz über Schuldbeitreibung und Konkurs, 1997
  • Zur prozessualen Umsetzung der Kostenpflicht der Gesellschaft im vom Aktionär eingeleiteten Verantwortlichkeitsprozess, Zürich 1993
  • Security on Movable Property and Receivables in Europe, National report on Switzerland, Oxford 1988
  • Genossenschaftsverbände, Zürich 1979

Languages

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  • German
  • English
  • French

Memberships

  • German Arbitration Institute (DIS)
  • Zurich, Swiss and International Bar Association (IBA)
  • AIJA
  • Europa Institut Zurich
  • ASA

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