Legal Partner at MME Legal | Tax | Compliance, Zurich
Current activity
Professional focus
Construction/Engineering
Biotechnology
Gas and Oil
Pharmaceuticals
Distribution and franchise
Areas of law
Adjudication/Dispute Boards
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Construction law
Civil law
Energy law
Commercial law
Private international law
Licensing/Franchise law
Procedural law
My career
- 2004: Master of Laws (lic.iur.) at University of Freiburg i.Ue., Switzerland
- 2006: Admission to the Zurich Bar, Switzerland
- 2009: Master of International Business Law (MIBL), University of Sydney, Australia
- 2011: PhD (Dr. iur.) at University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 2015: Arbitration Practitioner (ArbP), Swiss Arbitration Academy, Switzerland.
Arbitration experience
Counsel and arbitrator (president, co and sole) in numerous international and domestic arbitration proceedings under various institutional (ICC, Swiss Rules, CAS) and ad hoc rules. Counsel in Swiss court proceedings related to arbitration.
Publications
- 2024: Swiss Rules, in: Torggler/Schäfer/Wong/Mohs/Wedl (eds), Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit Deutschland - Österreich - Schweiz, 3rd ed, with Dominik Vock
- 2021: Perspectives on Document Disclosure, in: The Guide to Evidence in International Arbitration, First Edition, GAR, with Bernhard Meyer, Dominik Vock and Emina Husic
- 2017: Die Rechtswahlvereinbarungen nach Schweizerischem Kollisionsrecht, in: Czernich/Geimer (eds) Handbuch der Streitbeilegungsklauseln im Internationalen Vertragsrecht, with Andreas Furrer
- 2017: The Swiss Federal Supreme Court’s view on Arbitrator Consultants and Secretaries, and its practical implications, TDM Special Issue on “Non-Legal Adjudicators in National and International Disputes”
- 2016: Review of the Recent Case Law of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court in: Müller/Rigozzi/Besson (eds.), New Developments in International Commercial Arbitration 2016
- 2015: Arbitrator Consultants – Another Way to Deal with Technical or Commercial Challenges of Arbitrations, ASA Bulletin, Volume 33, No 1/2015
Languages
German
English
French
Memberships
- German Institution of Arbitration (DIS)
- Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
- Austrian Arbitration Association (ArbAut)
- ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF)
- Swiss Bar Association (SAV)
- Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- Endorsed as arbitrator on the panels of ICC Switzerland, the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) and the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA).
- Listed in the 2018 edition of “Who's Who Legal: Arbitration” as “Future Leader” in the partner section.