Michael A. Schifferli
Senior Associate
Michael Schifferli is a Senior Associate working mainly in the Arbitration & Litigation and in the Private Clients practice groups. He advises clients in domestic and international business and commercial matters and represents them before state courts and arbitral tribunals. In addition, he acts as arbitrator and/or secretary to arbitral tribunals. In his Private Client practice, he advises clients in domestic and cross-border inheritance matters and succession planning. Additionally, Michael Schifferli possesses specific knowledge of the Swiss laws of associations and foundations.
Michael Schifferli is an active member of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA), the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), the German Institution for Arbitration (DISG) and their respective young practioner groups ASA below 40 and DIS40. In his areas of expertise, Michael regularly speaks and participates at seminars and conferences. He is actively engaged as a volunteer arbitrator in the Willem C. Vis Interternational Commercial Arbitration Moot and sits on various boards of associations in Switzerland.
Practice Areas:
Litigation and Arbitration
Private Clients
Career:
2019 | Attorney at Law Wenger Plattner |
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2017 | Junior Associate Wenger Plattner |
2016 | Legal intern at the Thun District Administration Office (Regierungsstatthalteramt) |
2016 | University of Bern (MLaw) |
2015 | Research assistant at the Institute for Civil Law at the University of Bern (Professor Thomas Koller) and coach for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team from the University of Bern (2015-2019) |
2003 | English language immersion during a high school exchange year in Auckland, New Zealand |
Selected publications:
Commentary on Articles 35 - 44 of the CISG
In: Peter Mankowski (ed.), Commercial Law, IEBL International and European Business Law, Munich/Oxford/Baden-Baden, 2018 (together with Prof. Christoph Brunner)
Contact
Michael A. Schifferli MLaw
Attorney at Law
Wenger Plattner
Attorneys at Law Tax Advisors Public Notaries
Seestrasse 39 | P.O. Box
8700 Küsnacht-Zürich
T +41 43 222 38 00
F +41 43 222 38 01
michael.schifferli@wenger-plattner.ch
Admission:
Bar admission (2019)
Languages:
German, English, French