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Maurice L. Courvoisier

Address: 

Walder Wyss Ltd.
Aeschenvorstadt 48
4010 Basel
Switzerland

Phone Number: 
+41 58 658 1452
Fax Number: 
+41 58 658 59 59
Email: 
maurice.courvoisier@walderwyss.com
Website: www.walderwyss.com
Born: 
1970, Basel
Languages: 
German English French Italian
Nationalities: 
Swiss
Education: 
Univ. of Basel, lic. iur. 1995 (summa cum laude)
Dr. iur. 2001 (summa cum laude)
Columbia Law School New York, LL.M. 1998 (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to Basel and Swiss Bar (2000)
New York State Bar (2001)
Present Position: 
Partner Walder Wyss
Vice-president of the Basel Bar Association
Co-chair of the Basel local group of the Swiss Association for Arbitration (ASA)
Legal advisor of the Union of Swiss Theatres and member of the Swiss Federal Arbitral Commission on the Exploitation of Copyrights and Neighbouring Rights
Professional Experience: 

Research fellow for civil law, Univ. of Basel, Prof. Dr. Thomas Geiser (1994-1995); Research and teaching fellow civil law, Univ. of Basel, Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer (1996-1997); Law Clerk, District Court of Bienne (1998); Associate, Christen Rickli Partner, Basel (2000-2007); Associate, Wenger Plattner, Basel (2007-2012); Partner, Wenger Plattner, Basel (2013-2014).

Professional Associations: 

New York State Bar Association (NYSBA); American Bar Association (ABA); International Bar Association (IBA); Swiss Bar Association; Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA); German Institution for Arbitration (DIS).

Panels of Arbitrators: 

ICC Switzerland

Arbitration Experience: 

Counsel, sole arbitrator and party-appointed arbitrator in ICC, Swiss Rules and ad hoc arbitration proceedings.

Areas of Specialization: 
Business Law
Contracts
Employment Law
Enforcement of Judgments
Entertainment Law
Intellectual Property
Litigation
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

Arbitration in Switzerland - The Practitioner's Guide, 2nd edition Commentary on Art. 34 to 37 Swiss Rules on International Arbitration (Kluwer, 2018); Dispute resolution planning in international business, in: Münch/Passadelis/Lehne (Handbook for international commercial and business law, 2015); The industrial accident – in particular environmental liability, in: Weber/Münch (Handbooks for the lawyer’s practice, Liability and insurance, 2nd edition, 2015); Basel Commentary on Swiss International Private Law, 3nd edition, Art. 43 to 58 and art. 186 SIPL (Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 2013); On the Arbitrability of Family Law-Issues, in: Festschrift in Honour of Ingeborg Schwenzer (Stämpfli, 2011).