Education:
University of Zurich and IMD; admitted to the Zurich and Swiss bar
in 1986.
Experience:
Associate in Zurich law firm; over 12 years in the law department
of a leading global information technology enterprise whereof 3
years as Legal Counsel Europe; partner of a Zurich law firm for
5 years; head of the IT-law group of the Swiss Information and Communication
Industry Association (SWICO); Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences
Zurich (Master of Advanced Studies in Business Engineering);
former board member of the Swiss and the European Corporate Lawyers
Association (VSUJ/ECLA) as well as the Legal Committee of the European
ICT Association EICTA; partner of SN&P since 2003.
Preferred Areas
of Professional Activity: Information
technology; electronic commerce; telecommunications; distribution
law; international commercial transactions and joint ventures.
Publications:
Author of: "Semiconductor Chip Protection";
"EDI und MWSt - Feuer und Wasser"; "E-Commerce in der Schweiz
und in der EU" (5th
St. Galler Internationales Immaterialgüterrechtsforum 2001);
"Outsourcing Project Contracting"
(in: IT-Outsourcing, ZIK Volume 23); "Rechtliche Aspekte von
Records Management" (9th St. Galler Internationales Immaterialgüterrechtsforum
2005); "Vom Outtasking zum BPO - was gilt es zu beachten?"
(in: Internet-Recht und IT-Verträge); Co-author: "Draft Revision
of book keeping and -preservation rules in the Swiss Code of Obligations";
"Model EDI Agreement for Switzerland"; "Electronic
Bookeeping and Records Retention"; "Informatikrecht im Europäischen
Umfeld"; "Records Management".