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Practice Areas: Head of Private Clients practice. International succession and international trust and estate litigation. Advises clients in international arbitration proceedings. Languages: German, English.
Professional Memberships: Zurich, Swiss and International Bar Associations (IBA; Vice-Chair Family Law Committee); Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP); Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS); Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA); fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).
Career: Qualified 1994 (Switzerland) and 1998 (New York; not practicing). Partner of Bär & Karrer since 2004.
Publications: (author or co-author): Chapter Switzerland, in: Louis Garb/John Wood (eds.), International Succession, Edition 3, Oxford 2010, p. 685 ff.; Charitable giving and taxation of charities, Trust & Trustees, Vol. 15, No. 5, July 2009, p. 421 ff.; Der deutsch-schweizerische Erbfall - IPR-Betrachtung, schweizerische Besonderheiten und Gestaltungshinweise, BBEV 3/2009, p. 123 ff.; Legal Privilege in Switzerland, in: International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) (ed.), New Develpments in International Commercial Arbitration, Zurich 2007, p. 33 ff.; Untersuchungen durch unabhängige Beauftragte - Ein interessantes Instrument der Aufsicht und Vertrauensbildung auch für schweizerische Unternehmen und Organisationen, NZZ 8 March 2007.
Personal: Born 1964. New York University (LLM, 1998).