Mohs, Florian

Partner, Pestalozzi, Zurich, Switzerland, Litigation and Arbitration Practice Group

• Commodities trade
• Construction / Engineering
• Transport / Infrastructure

• 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

Counsel in international commercial arbitrations (ICC, Swiss Chambers, ad hoc)

• 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

• German (native)
• English (fluent)

• DIS
• DIS40
• ASA
• ASAb40
• ICC YAF
• YIAG
• ICDR Y&I