Pfisterer, Stefanie

Associate at Homburger (Zurich, Switzerland)

• 2013 Bar admission New York
• 2012 Senior Associate at WilmerHale in London
• 2012 Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
• 2011 University of Zurich (Dr. iur.)
• 2009 Associate at a law firm in Bern
• 2009 Research Assistant at the University of Zurich
• 2009 Bar admission (Switzerland)
• 2008 Intern at the Singapore Int'l Arbitration Centre (SIAC)
• 2007 University of Bern (MLaw)

Stefanie Pfisterer's practice focuses on international and domestic arbitration as well as litigation. She has been involved in more than 50 arbitration proceedings. Stefanie Pfisterer has acted as counsel in proceedings governed by the ICC Rules, the Swiss Rules, the LCIA Rules, the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, and in ad hoc and ICSID arbitration proceedings, and she has been appointed as arbitrator in proceedings under the ICC Rules, the Swiss Rules, and the LCIA Rules. Stefanie Pfisterer is experienced in disputes arising, inter alia, out of agency and distribution, joint ventures, M&A transactions, international sales contracts, and shareholder agreements. Stefanie Pfisterer also represents clients in complex state court litigations in a broad range of matters.

• Features of trade law adjudication and their impact on the development of legal concepts and precedents in: Establishing Judicial Authority in International Economic Law, 2016
• Art. 367-371 ZPO in: Kommentar zur Schweizerischen Zivilprozessordnung (ZPO), 3rd ed. 2016
• Iura Novit Arbiter revisited: towards a harmonized approach? in: Uniform Law Review 2015, pp. 56-80
• Vor Art. 14-24 in: Stämpflis Handkommentar UN-Kaufrecht - CISG, 2nd ed. 2014
• Art. 353-359, 376, 388 in: Berner Kommentar, Schweizerische Zivilprozessordnung Art. 353-399 ZPO und Art. 407 ZPO, Bern 2014
• The Arbitrator as Settlement Facilitator in: American Review of International Arbitration ARIA, No. 4 2013
• Art. 181, 190-191 IPRG in: Basler Kommentar Internationales Privatrecht, 3rd ed. 2013
• Art. 18-21 Swiss Rules in: Swiss Rules of International Arbitration, Commentary, 2013
• International Arbitration in Switzerland in a nutshell, 2012
• Ausdehnung von Schiedsvereinbarungen in Konzernverhältnissen, 2011
• Internationale Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit in a nutshell, 2010

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• Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
• Zurich Bar Association
• American Bar Association (ABA)