Professor, University of Vienna, Austria Of Counsel, Wilmer Hale, London, UK Permanent Visiting Professor, St. Gallen University, Switzerland
Current activity
Professional focus
- Contract
- Corporate
- M & A
- Finance
- Energy
- Joint Ventures
- Construction
- Trade
- Academic and practice experience (including as arbitrator) in Austrian, German, Swiss and Liechtenstein Law
Areas of law
My career
- Magister iuris, Vienna 1991
- Doctor iuris, Vienna 1992
- "Habilitation", Vienna 1997
- Full Professor, Halle-Wittenberg University, Germany 2001-03
- Full Professor, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Of Counsel, Stiffler & Partners, Zurich, Switzerland 2006-11
- Bar Admission, Hamburg, Germany, 2007
Arbitration experience
Participated in about 100 arbitration proceedings (arbitrator, counsel, expert), including about 40 proceedings as arbitrator (chairman, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator, mainly VIAC, ICC, ad hoc and Swiss Chambers)
Publications
- About 250 publications on procedure, arbitration, insolvency, contract, property and corporate law
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
- German Arbitration Institute (DIS)
- Swiss Association of Arbitration (ASA)
- Austrian Arbitration Association