Current activity

Professor, University of Vienna, Austria Of Counsel, Wilmer Hale, London, UK Permanent Visiting Professor, St. Gallen University, Switzerland

Professional focus

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  • 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

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  • German
  • English

Memberships

  • German Arbitration Institute (DIS)
  • Swiss Association of Arbitration (ASA)
  • Austrian Arbitration Association

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