Partner, Schellenberg Wittmer (since 2012)
Current activity
Professional focus
- Arbitration
- Arbitration-related litigation
- Swiss law
- Construction and engineering
- International trade
- Energy including Oil & Gas
- Pharmaceuticals
Areas of law
My career
- Dr.iur (summa cum laude; Prof. Walther Hug Prize), University of Zurich (2010)
- Visiting Scholar, Columbia Law School (2008/09)
- Associate, Schellenberg Wittmer (2006-2011)
- Master of Law, University of Fribourg (2002)
- International Law Certificate, University of Amsterdam (2000)
Arbitration experience
Counsel and arbitrator in a wide array of commercial disputes related to construction and engineering projects, research and development, sales contracts including post-M&A disputes, joint ventures, the pharmaceutical and automotive industries and the energy sector, including oil & gas disputes.
Publications
- Selection: Emergency Arbitrator Procedure, ICC Bulletin Special Series 2011
- Commentary on Art. 183 PILA, Art. 29 ICC Rules and special chapter Interim Measures, in Arroyo (ed.), Arbitration in Switzerland, Practitioners' Guide, (forthcoming 2012)
- The New ICC Emergency Arbitrator Rules, Transnational Notes, Reflections on Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law, 27 September 2011
- Die Durchsetzung einstweiliger Massnahmen in internationalen Schiedsverfahren, Zurich 2010 (2011)
- The laws governing interim measures in international arbitration, Ferrari/Kröll (eds), Conflict of Laws in International Arbitration, Munich 2011, pp. 409-457
- Swiss Rules of International Arbitration – Time to Introduce an Emergency Arbitrator Procedure?, 28 ASA Bulletin 3/2010, 461-477
- Die Wahl des Schweizer Rechts – was man wissen sollte, RIW 3/2009, 126–139
- How to Deal with Multi-tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses, ASA Bulletin 1/2008, 103 ff.
- Streiterledigung bei Grossprojekten II: Die ICC Dispute Board Rules, Anwaltsrevue 11-12/2007, 494 ff.
Languages
- German (native)
- English (native)
- French
- Dutch
- Italian (basic)
Memberships
- DIS
- IPBA
- Swiss-Asian Chamber of Commerce
- ASA
- IBA
- LCIA
- ICCA
- ICDR Y&I
- YAS
- ICC YAF
- YAP
- SAV
- ZAV