Dispute Resolution

Partner - Head of Dispute Resolution.

Main practice areas: Litigation and Arbitration, Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law, Private International Law, Inheritance Law, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property and Competition Law, White Collar Crime.

Particular focus on: (i) complex cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on the financial industry, aviation, and shareholder disputes, (ii) high-profile and bet-the-company disputes, as well as (iii) white collar cases (fraud, embezzlement, including tracing and freezing of assets).

Also acts regularly as expert for Swiss law in high-stake disputes before foreign courts and arbitral tribunals, including cross-examination as Part 35 Expert under the UK CPR.

Further practice areas: i) recognition and enforcement of judgments and awards, ii) internal investigations, iii) injunctive relief, and iv) inheritance disputes.

Regularly publishes and lectures on national and international civil procedure law as well as inheritance law, and acts as editor in chief for civil procedure law for a case law periodical.

Internship STG-Coopers & Lybrand Ltd (now PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd.) Legal Department, Basel (1997-1998); Internship F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.; Corporate Law, Basel (1998); Court clerk at the District Court of Liestal (1999).

German, English, French, Spanish, Italian.

International Bar Association IBA; Swiss Bar Association; Swiss Lawyers Association; European Bar Association (DACH); Basel Bar Association; Basel Lawyers Association; Pro iure; Swiss Association for Arbitration in Inheritance Matters.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1997; Dr. iur., 2001, summa cum laude); University of Kent at Canterbury (LL.M. in International Commercial Law, 2004).

La Cetra Barockorchester Basel (Chairman of the Board).