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Markus Wirth

Address: 

Homburger AG
Prime Tower
Hardstrasse 201
8005 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone Number: 
+41 43 222 10 00
Fax Number: 
+41 43 222 15 00
Email: 
markus.wirth@homburger.ch
Website: www.homburger.ch
Born: 
January, 1945
Languages: 
German English
Nationalities: 
Swiss
Education: 
University of Zurich, lic.iur., 1969;
University of Toronto, LL.M., 1972;
University of Zurich, Dr.iur., 1976
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
1977, admitted to all courts in Switzerland
Present Position: 
Senior Counsel, Homburger AG
Professional Experience: 

Homburger (Senior Counsel since 2016, Partner 1981 – 2015, Associate 1976 – 79/1980 – 81); Baker & McKenzie, Washington, DC, Foreign Attorney (1979 – 80); Legal advisor/assistant lecturer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (1971 – 75); Swiss Delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, Panmunjom, Korea, 1969.

Professional Associations: 

Honorary President Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA); Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London; Former member, ICC International Court of Arbitration; International Bar Association; Swiss Bar Association.

Arbitration Experience: 

Counsel to Swiss and foreign companies as well as foreign governments in numerous international arbitrations in Switzerland and elsewhere; Chairman, party-appointed arbitrator or sole arbitrator in some 150 international commercial and investor-state arbitrations seated in Europe, North America and Asia under a variety of institutional rules and in ad-hoc proceedings.

Areas of Specialization: 
Energy
Foreign Investment & Joint Ventures
International Commercial Transactions
Mergers & Acquisitions
Telecommunications
Publications from JURIS: 
Settlement Facilitation - Ten Years of Swiss Rules of International Arbitration - ASA Special Series No. 44
Publications: 

Settlement Facilitation, in: 10 Years of Swiss Rules of International Arbitration, ASA Special Series No. 44, 2014, pp. 95 – 101; Chapter 12 PILA – Is it Time for Reform? If Yes, What Shall be Its Scope?, in: New Developments in International Commercial Arbitration, cemaj Centre de recherche sur les modes amiables et juridictionnels de gestion des conflits, Université de Neuchâtel, christoph Müller|Antonio Rigozzi (Eds.), Schulthess Editions romandes 2011; Fact Witnesses, in: International Arbitration Law Review, Int. A.L.R., 2010 Vol 13 Issue 5, p. 207; Production of Documents and Fraud in International Arbitration, in: Written Evidence and Discovery in international Arbitration: New Issues and Tendencies, Dossiers ICC Institute of World Business Law, 2009, ICC Publication No. 698, pp. 177 – 193; The Current Revision of the UNCITRAL Rules, in: "New Developments in International Commercial Arbitration", ed. Ch. Müller, Schulthess, Zurich 2007, pp. 1 – 19; The Swiss Experience in Developing UNCITRAL Based Rules, in: Quarterly Law Review of the Malaysian Current Law Journal, [2007] 2 QLR, pp. 113 – 132.