Advocate
Current activity
Professional focus
- Fields of law: Corporate and commercial law, copyright and design law,theater and art law, employment and transport law
- Industries: Pharma.
Areas of law
My career
- Research and teaching fellow at University of Basel (Prof. Th. Geiser) (1994-1995)
- University Basel (lic.iur. 1995)
- Research and teaching fellow at University of Basel (Prof. I. Schwenzer) (1996-1997)
- Clerk at the regional court in Bienne (1998)
- Columbia Law School New York (LL.M. 1998
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
- University of Basel (Dr. iur. 2001)
- Associate at Christen Rickli Partner, Basel (2000-2007)
- Senior Associate at WENGER PLATTNER (2007-2011)
- Partner at WENGER PLATTNER (2012-2014)
- Partner at Walder Wyss (since 2014)
Arbitration experience
As arbitrator: Arbitrator or sole arbitrator in proceedings ICC Rules; as representative of a party: in proceedings ICC Rules and Swiss Rules and ad hoc-arbitrations; Object of the arbitrations:Purchase and delivery contracts, Distribution and licence Agreements, Joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions, contruction and civil Engineering and telecommunication
Publications
- Handbuch Internationales Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht: Dispute resolution planning (2015)
- Handbücher für die Anwaltspraxis (HAP), Band V, 2nd Edition: § 24 Industrial accidents - namely environmental liability (2014)
- Arbitration in Switzerland - The Practitioner'
- s Guide, art. 34-37 Swiss Rules (2013)
- Basel commentary on Swiss International private law (3rd Edition, Basel 2013, art. 43-58 and art. 186 SIPL)
Languages
- German
- English
- French
- Italian
Memberships
- Vice-president of the Basel Bar Association
- Swiss Association for Arbitration (ASA
- New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)
- American Bar Association (ABA)
- International Bar Asscociation (IBA)