Partner, Pestalozzi, Zurich, Switzerland, Litigation and Arbitration Practice Group
Current activity
Professional focus
- Commodities trade
- Construction / Engineering
- Transport / Infrastructure
Areas of law
My career
- Associate, Pestalozzi, Litigation & Arbitration, 2008-2015
- Lecturer, University of Basel, 2009-2012
- Secondment, Commodities Trader, Legal Department, 2008-2009
- Junior Associate, Pestalozzi, Corporate & Commercial and Litigation & Arbitration, 2006-2007
- Research and teaching assistant, University of Basel, 2002-2005/2007-2008
- LL.M., University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2006
- Dr. iur., University of Basel, 2005
- First State Exam, University of Freiburg, Germany, 2002
Arbitration experience
Counsel in international commercial arbitrations (ICC, Swiss Chambers, ad hoc)
Publications
- Art. 53-65 (Obligations of the Buyer), in: Schwenzer (ed.), Schlechtriem/Schwenzer, Commentary on the UN Convention for the International Sale of Goods, 4th ed., 2016
- Natural Gas and the CISG, in: Schwenzer, Ingeborg (ed), 35 Years CISG and Beyond, Eleven International Publishing 2015, pp. 139-149
- Penalty Clauses in Arbitration Agreements, in: Arroyo (ed.), Arbitration in Switzerland, Kluwer 2013, pp. 1483-89
- The CISG and the Commodities Trade, in: Büchler/Müller-Chen (eds), Private Law, national - global - comparative, FS für I. Schwenzer, 2011, pp. 1285-1302
- Arbitration clauses in chains of contracts, ASA Bulletin 2009, pp. 213-235 (together with I. Schwenzer)
- Drittwirkung von Schieds- und Gerichtsstandsvereinbarungen, Sellier. ELP 2006
Languages
- German (native)
- English (fluent)
Memberships
- DIS
- DIS40
- ASA
- ASAb40
- ICC YAF
- YIAG
- ICDR Y&I