Partner with Baur Hürlimann
Current activity
Professional focus
- Commercial Contracts
- Infrastructure Projects
- Construction/Engineering
- Plants and Equipment
- Sale of Goods/UN-Convention
- Joint Venture Agreements
- Technology
- Shareholder Agreements
Areas of law
My career
- 1977-1984 University of Fribourg, Law School (lic.iur. 1981, Dr.iur. 1984)
- 1981-1984 Assistant with Prof. Dr. P. Gauch (Law School Fribourg)
- 1984-1985 Clerk at the Supreme Court of Canton of Argovie
- 1985 Admission to the Swiss Bar
- 1985-1986 Associate with Schumacher Baur Hürlimann
- 1986-1987 University of Berkeley, Law School (Master of Laws, LL.M.)
- 1987 Associate with Lempres & Wulfsberg, San Francisco
- since 1988/1991 Associate/Partner with Baur Hürlimann AG
Arbitration experience
total of 91 proceedings; ICC, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules, CRCICA, ad hoc; As Chairman - 19 proceedings; as Co-Arbitrator - 37 proceedings; as Counsel: 35 proceedings; subject-matter of the proceedings: Infrastructure Projects; Construction/Engineering, Plants and Equipment, Sale of Goods/UN-Convention, Joint Venture Agreements, Shareholder Agreements
Publications
- Arbitration in Construction in Switzerland (2019)
- Co-Author, Engineering/Design Professional Contracts (2019)
- Co-Author, Commentary on Construction Law/Standards SIA Norm 118 (2017)
- Specific Performance as a Remedy in Construction and Manufacturing - Non- Monetary Relief in International Arbitration (ASA No 30; 2011)
- Disruption Claims under Swiss Law (2004)
- Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, Swiss Report (1998)
- various other publications on Construction, Arbitration, Dispute Resolution and related matters (see: www.bhlaw.ch)
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
- Zurich and Swiss Bar Association
- IBA, ICC Swiss Contry List
- ASA Swiss Arbitration Association
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Swiss and International Contruction Law
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Swiss and International Contruction Law, International Academy of Construction Lawyers