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Bernhard Meyer

Bernhard Meyer

Work Department

International litigation and arbitration; mergers and acquisitions; banking; licensing, agency and distribution law; construction-engineering; intellectual property; joint ventures; unfair competition; gas & oil price adjustment disputes; energy contracts, etc.

Position

Senior Partner specialising in arbitration, litigation and contracts, particularly in the following areas and industries: medical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, aviation, telecommunication, mobile phone infrastructure projects, construction, engineering, chemical, joint ventures, hotel management, energy, investments, licensing, insurance, commodity trading, privatisations, internet business, information Technology (IT), software, power plants, banking, M&A, R&D.

Career

Qualified 1975; Associate Baker & McKenzie 1978-82; Partner Hartmann Meyer and Partner 1983-99; Partner MME Legal AG (previously MME Partners) 1999 to date; living and working experience in the US.

Languages

English, French, German, Italian.

Memberships

Vice-President Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA); Jurisdictional Council Member Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) and Member of the International Dispute Resolution Committee; Former Co-Chair Zurich Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Court; Chairman emeritus International Sales Section of the International Bar Association (IBA); Member and former Chair of the Swiss Arbitration Commission of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); Member, German Institution for Arbitration; Member, Austrian Arbitration Association; Member Swiss and Zurich Bar Associations; Associate Member American Bar Association (ABA). Arbitration Panels: ICC (International Chamber of Commerce), Paris; ICDR/AAA (American Arbitration Association), New York; WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), Geneva; LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration), London; International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Vienna; CIDRA (Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association), Chicago; HKIAC (Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre), Hong Kong, and others.

Education

University of Zurich (1979 Dr iur); Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago (1977 LLM); Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (1999 FCIArb); Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (2007 FSIArb).

Leisure

Scuba-diving, skiing, sailing, tennis, golf, mountain hiking