Education and Practice Experience

• Law School at University of Zurich, 1989
• Bar Exam Zurich, 1992
• Assistant to Prof. H.U. Walder, University of Zürich for Civil Procedure and Bankruptcy Law
• Doctorate at the University of Zurich, Thesis "The Data Protection Law", 1994
• Postgraduate Program at the University of Texas at Austin, USA (LL.M.), 1997
• Associate & Partner with a law firm in Zurich
• since 2001 partner with A A A V O Q 

Preferred Practice Areas

• International Contract Law
• Corporate and Commercial Law
• Insolvency Law
• Data Protection
• Banking Law
• Inheritance Law
• Mediation

Publications

• "The Data Protection Law", Thesis Zurich, 1994
• "Access to the Enforcement Register under the new Bankruptcy Law", Aktuelle Juristische Praxis
• (AJP) 1995, p. 1445 et seq.
• "Med-Arb in international Arbitration", in: The American Review of International Arbitration, 1997, Vol. 8 No.1
• Commentary on Bankruptcy Law, Art. 8-11, Basel 1998
• "Mediation: A Process to Overcome Barriers to Conflict Resolution", Aktuelle Juristische Praxis (AJP) 2000, p. 18 et seq.
• Co-Author: "Law on Mortgages (Art. 793 - 883 ZGB)",
• in: The Development of the Law at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Zurich 2001, p. 187 et seq.
• Co-Author: "Settlement weeks at the District Court of Zurich", ZKM - Zeitschrift für Konfliktmanagement, März/April 2002
• "Disputes in IT-Projects" ("Vom Umgang mit Konflikten bei IT-Projekten"), NZZ 24. September 2002, B 10
• "Mediation in the Swiss Civil Procedure Act" ("Mediation in der eidgenössischen ZPO"), AnwaltsRevue, 2/2004, p. 42 ff.
• "Mediation in the project for a Swiss Civil Procedure Act" ("Mediation in der geplanten schweizerischen Zivilprozessordnung"), Perspektive Mediation, 2005/2, p. 92 ff.

Member

• SKWM- Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (President,Section Zurich)
• Institute for Mediation
• ABA- American Bar Association, Section Dispute Resolution
• SAV- Swiss Bar Association
• ZAV-Zurich Bar Association
• Data Protection Forum Switzerland
• Institute for Civil Procedure
• Association for Bankruptcy Law