Independent Arbitrator
Current activity
Professional focus
- Distribution law
- Intellectual property
- Telecom
- Energy and raw materials
- Shareholder disputes
- Industry plants
- Complex technical / economic disputes
- East-West disputes
Areas of law
My career
- Dr. iuris, University Vienna Law School, studies of economy (University Vienna and Business University Vienna)Training in the judiciary, district judge (Vienna court of appeals)
- Training in the judiciary, district judge (Vienna court of appeals)
- Head of legal department in the production industry (EUMIG, SEMPERIT)
- Rechtsanwalt (Vienna Bar) 1988 through 2016
- Euroadvokat (Slovakia) since 2004
- Other qualifications:disciplinary judge for lawyers 1997-2016; 2016 member of the appeals tribunal at the Supreme Court ("Anwaltsrichter beim Obersten Gerichtshof")
Arbitration experience
Chairman, party-appointed and sole arbitrator (VIAC, ICC, Swiss Chambers, Budapest Chamber, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and Ad Hoc), chairman of a Dispute Board (ICC Rules), listed as arbitrator: VIAC, KLRCA, CCIS, SOUD.CZ, ICDR
Publications
- SchiedsVZ Co-editor
- CYArb Czech (& Central European) Yearbook of Arbitration: Member of the Editorial Board
- Co-author "Die Neuen Wiener Regeln", SchiedsVZ (3/2013)
- Co-author "Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit für die Finanzmärkte", Österreichisches BankArchiv (6/2013)
- "Dispositionsgrundsatz in Gefahr? - Zur Behandlung unbestimmter Klagebegehren in internationalen Schiedsverfahren aus der Sicht des österreichischen Rechts" in FS Torggler (2013)
- Co-author "Handbook Vienna Rules - A Practitioner's Guide", VIAC (2013)
- Country author "Austria" in "Transnational Litigation - A Practitioner's Guide, OCEANA Publications
Languages
- German
- English
- French
Memberships
- Association operating the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot: member of the executive board
- Austrian Arbitration Association (ArbAut): member of the executive committee 2006-2011, president 2010/2011
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb): vice chair European Branch 2009-2013
- IBA
- ASA
- PSSP
- IAI
Further informations
Teaching: Lectures occasionally at universities, regularly speaks and moderates at ADR-conference