Voser, Nathalie

Partner, Schellenberg Wittmer

• General contract law
• construction law
• international commodity sales
• restitution
• private international law (conflict-of-laws) and international procedural law (including jurisdictional questions
• attachments and recognition of foreign judgments and arbitral awards).

• 1983-1988 University of Basel (Switzerland) Licentiate (summa cum laude)
• 1988-1990 Training with a law firm in Basel followed by law clerk at the Appellate Court level
• 1990 Admission to the Bar of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft
• 1991-1993 University of Basel, Assistant at the faculty of Law, Prof. Frank Vischer, Doctoral Dissertation in Private International Law (summa cum laude)
• 1993-1994 Columbia University School of Law (New York City/USA) LL.M. - Masters of Law
• 1995-2000 Associate, Schellenberg Wittmer
• 1999 Part-time lecturer at the University of Zurich (Conflict-of-Laws)
• 1999 / 2000 Part-time lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (Code of Obligations)
• 2002 / 2003 Part-time lecturer at the University of Basel (Code of Obligations)
• 2005 Venia docendi for Private Law, Conflicts-of-Laws and Comparative Law
• since 2006 Assistant Professor ("Privatdozent") at the University of Basel

As arbitrator: Repeated appointments as chair and co-arbitrator in ICC panels. Chair of an ad-hoc arbitration (UNCITRAL Rules) and co-arbitrator under the Arbitration Rules of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; As counsel: Regularly acting as lead counsel or co-counsel in arbitration cases. Frequent general advises on arbitration issues; As expert Party appointment expert on Swiss general contract law, law on unjust enrichment, and res judicata in arbitration; Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: Contract law, M&A and joint venture disputes, construction and civil engineering projects, telecommunication, sales and supply contracts.

• Extract
• Mandatory Rules of Law as Limitation to the Law Applicable in International Commercial Arbitration, American Review of International Arbitration, Vol. 7 (1996), issue 3/4, 319-357 (published March 1998)
• Arbitrability and the Applicable Law in the Claims Resolution Process for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, Arbitration International, Vol. 15 No. 3 (1999), 237-266 (also published in: The Claims Resolution Process on Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, ASA Special Series No. 13, January 2000, 50 - 80)
• Should International Commercial Arbitration Awards be Reviewable? in: Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting by the American Society of International Law, International Law in Ferment: A New Vision of Theory and Practice, Washington 2000, 128 - 134 (94 ASIL Proc. 214, 128 - 134 [2000])
• Praktische Fragen im Zusammenhang mit Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Urteile nach IPRG, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für internationales und europäisches Recht (SZIER 10 (2000), 437 - 473 (co-authored)
• Sanktion bei Nichterfüllung einer Schlichtungsklausel, Kommentar zum Urteil des Kassationsgerichts vom 15. März 1999, ASA Bd. 20 (2002) 376 - 381
• Interessenkonflikte in der internationalen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit - die Initiative der IBA, SchiedsVZ 1 (2003) 59-65
• Background Information on the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration, Business Law International (Vol. 5 No. 3, September 2004) 433-458 (co-authored)
• The Arbitral Tribunal, International Arbitration in Switzerland: A Handbook for Practitioners, Zurich/The Hague 2004, 33 - 48 (co-authored)
• Harmonization by Promulgating Rules of Best International Practice in International Arbitration, SchiedsVZ 3 (2005) 113-118
• Aktuelle Probleme zivilrechtlicher Verjährung bei körperlichen Spätschäden aus rechtsvergleichender Sicht, recht 4 (2005), 121 -135
• Appointment of Experts by the Arbitral Tribunal: the Civil Law Perspective, BLI vol. 7 no. 1, 73-82 (co-authored)

• Fluent in German
• English
• French
• working knowledge of Italian

• SAV
• ZAV
• ASA, DIS, IBA, LCIA, ARBAut.