Austria
Transactional lawyer & Counsel in international litigation and arbitration, arbitrator. Working in construction, project finance, trade & distribution, copyright & licensing, IT (software, outsourcing), competition, corporate, energy (gas, renewable), investment protection, sports & New York commercial law - fields where I also act as arbitration counsel and arbitrator (including presiding; UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, VIAC, DIS, Danish, Swiss & Romanian Rules, SCC, ad hoc). Specifically experienced also in advising start-ups, on research funding & consortia, e-commerce, online payment, cloud-computing, big data, and public procurement.
Transactional work, Counsel in arbitration (UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, VIAC, DIS, Danish, Swiss & Romanian Rules, ad hoc) and litigation involving construction, project finance, trade & distribution, copyright, patents & licensing, IT (software, outsourcing), competition, corporate, energy (gas, renewable), investment protection, sports & New York commercial law. Transactional experience in particular in corporate, distribution, research funding & consortia, ecommerce, online payment. Handling cloud-computing, big data, public procurement, Delaware corporations law. Arbitrator (also presiding) in international arbitration proceedings. Working in English, French and German.
Negotiated international IT and procurement contracts, conducted (public) procurement proceedings and provided legal counseling to various daughter companies, specifically with regard to their IT and e-commerce business, also with respect to corporate, IP and data-protection aspects.
Position: Head of arbitration department. Continuing practice in transactional work and international commercial and investment arbitration as arbitrator and counsel (including ICSID) as well as in complex litigation involving energy (gas and renewable), M&A, investment protection (BITs, ICSID), EU law (inter alia competition, state-aid, intra EU-BITs), construction, sales, corporate, IT, banking, sports and aspects of US-law.
Represented parties in corporate and damage litigation, arbitration and enforcement matters. Supported Arbitral Tribunals in authoring Arbitral Awards, Procedural Orders and organized oral hearings as official Secretary to Tribunals in international arbitration proceedings under ICC and Swiss Rules dealing with plant construction, energy transportation, transfer of shares and cross-border trade.