Oetiker, Christian

Partner in the Litigation & Arbitration Team of VISCHER AG, Zurich/Basel

• Agency / Distribution / Franchising
• Finance and Banking (Derivate Agreements; ISDA Master Agreements)Pharmaceuticals
• Sales / Purchases
• Transport / Infrastructure

• University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (lic.iur., 1996; Dr. iur., 2003)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (LL.M., 2001)

Swiss Rules, ICC Rules, LCIA Rules, ad hoc Counsel, Co-Counsel, Special Swiss Counsel in a number of domestic and international arbitration cases involving asset purchase, service agreements, re-insurance, distribution and corporate law Arbitrator (Chairman and Party-Appointed Arbitrator) Administration (Case Management Committees) of Swiss Rules Arbitrations

• Commentary to the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration, Zurich 2013 (Art. 26-27, Art. 28-30 together with Noradèle Radjai)
• Ad Hoc Arbitration in Switzerland, in: Arroyo: Arbitration in Switzerland: A Practioner's Handbook, Biggleswade 2013
• IBA Rules of Evidence. Commentary on the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (co-author), Zurich 2012
• Sense and Nonsense of Written Witness Statements, in: Müller/Rigozzi (ed.), New Developments in International Commercial Arbitration 2009, Zurich 2009, 29-43
• Practical Aspects of Arbitrating EC Competition Law, Zurich 2007
• Witnesses before the International Arbitral Tribunal, ASA Bull. 2/2007
• Basler Kommentar zum Lugano-Übereinkommen (co-editor and co-author), Basel 2016
• Rückversicherungsschiedsgerichte - Ist billig und schnell auch gut? (co-author), HAVE 2007, 335-345
• Eintritt und Wirkungen der Rechtshängigkeit in der internationalen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, St. Gallen/Lachen 2003 (Doctoral Thesis)

• German
• English
• Italian
• French

• Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) (Member of the Board)
• International Bar Association (IBA)
• AIJA
• Swiss and Basel Bar Association
• Italian Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland