Philipp Habegger
| Address | Mühlebachstrasse 173 / CH-8008 Zurich / Switzerland |
| Phone | (+41) 44 269 66 22 |
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| phabegger@habegger-arbitration.net | |
| Website | www.habegger-arbitration.net |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Education | – University of Zurich (lic. iur. 1989); – University of Chicago Law School (LLM 1994); – University of Zurich (Dr. iur. 1996). |
| Bar Admission | Member of the Zurich Bar, the Swiss Bar Association and the International Bar Association (IBA). |
| Work Experience | Philipp Habegger’s main area of practice is international commercial arbitration. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in more than one hundred and sixty-five international arbitral proceedings under a variety of arbitration rules, including ICC, Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution (Swiss Rules), LCIA, SIAC, Vienna, AAA/ICDR, Stockholm Arbitration Institute and UNCITRAL, involving the substantive laws of Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, England, Russia, India, Turkey, Panama, Liechtenstein, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Estonia, Egypt and New York, as well as the UN Sales Convention and the UNIDROIT Principles. He has been involved in disputes arising, inter alia, out of joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, shareholders’ agreements, international sales and related transactions, agency and distribution, licensing, franchising, construction and engineering projects, across a wide range of industries including telecommunications, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, food, defence, machinery, power and energy, and commodity trading. |
| Present Position | – Partner at HABEGGER Arbitration; – Lecturer University of Zurich (international arbitration and international sales law); – President Arbitration Court of the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution (SCAI); – Founding member Swiss Arbitration Academy. |
| Past positions | Associate and partner in a leading Swiss business law firm (1996-2013); Court member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2009-2015); Vice President of the LCIA European Users’ Council; Officer and Vice-chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association; Foreign attorney New York law firm (1995). |
| Publications | – Saving Time and Costs in Arbitration, in: Manuel Arroyo (Ed.), Arbitration in Switzerland – The Practitioner’s Guide: Commentary, Wolters Kluwer, The Hague, 2013. – Article 43 of the Swiss Rules: Emergency Relief,in: Manuel Arroyo (Ed.), Arbitration in Switzerland – The Practitioner’s Guide: Commentary, Wolters Kluwer, The Hague, 2013. – Introduction: ICC Rules, in: Manuel Arroyo (Ed.), Arbitration in Switzerland – The Practitioner’s Guide: Commentary, Wolters Kluwer, The Hague, 2013. – Swiss Rules of International Arbitration – Commentary,in: Tobias Zuberbühler, Christoph Müller, Philipp Habegger (Eds.), Swiss Rules of International Arbitration: Commentary, Schulthess Verlag, Juris, 2nd ed. 2013. – The Revised Swiss Rules of International Arbitration, New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Fall 2012, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 61-63. – The Revised Swiss Rules of International Arbitration (with Anna Masser), Praxis des Internationalen Privat-und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax), 5/2012, pp. 459-464. – The Revised Swiss Rules of International Arbitration (with Anna Masser), Anwalts Revue, 4/2012, pp. 175-180. – The Revised Swiss Rules of International Arbitration – An Overview of the Major Changes, ASA Bull. 2/2012, pp. 269-311. – The UNCITRAL Notes on organizing Arbitral Proceedings – Time for an Update? (with Anna Masser), in: Kröll/ Mistellis/ Rogers/ Perales Viscasillas (Eds.), Liber Amicorum Eric Bergsten. International Arbitration and International Commercial Law: Synergy, Convergence and Evolution, Alphen a/d Rijn 2011, pp. 207-223. – (No) forfeiture of right to challenge an award when previous partial award was not challenged?, ASA Bull. 2/2010, pp. 130-136. – Commentary on Art. 360-362, 364-366,370-380 ZPO (domestic arbitration), in: Karl Spühler/ Luca Tenchio/ Dominik Infanger (Eds.), Basler Kommentar, Schweizerische Zivilprozessordnung, Basel, 2010. – Introduction to Art. 353-399 ZPO (domestic arbitration),in: Karl Spühler/ Luca Tenchio/ Dominik Infanger (Eds.), Basler Kommentar, Schweizerische Zivilprozessordnung, Basel, 2010. – Switzerland (with Micha Bühler), in: Guide to National Rules of Procedure for Recognition and Enforcement of New York Convention Awards, Paris, 2009, pp. 279-285. – Dissolution of corporations – Commentary on Art. 736-751 CO (with Benedick Giles),in: Handkommentar zum Schweizer Privatrecht, Zurich 2007. – Document Production – An Overview of Swiss Court and Arbitration Practice, in: ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin, 2006 Special Supplement, Document Production in International Arbitration, 2006, pp. 21-34. – Case Note on DFT 129 III 727: Extension of arbitration agreements to non-signatories and requirements of form, ASA Bull. 2/2004. – Transfer of a prorogation clause in case of assignment – Note on a decision of the Zurich Commercial Court of 13 September 2001, ASA Bull. 4/2002. – Arbitration and Groups of Companies – The Swiss Practice, European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR), 3/2002, Vol. 3. – Switzerland: Appointment and Challenge of Arbitrators, Newsletter of Committee D (Arbitration and ADR) of the International Bar Association Section on Business Law, 2/1997, Vol. 2. – Involuntary dissolution suits in Swiss corporate law, Bern 1996. – The 1995 Rules of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Journal of International Arbitration, 4/1995, Vol. 12. |
| Languages | German, English, French |