Christian Batliner

Practice Areas

Attorney-at-law; Founding partner; co-head of Corporate and Commercial

Practice areas: Administrative Law · Arbitration · Corporate Law | M&A · Foundations and Trusts · Law of Succession, Estate Planning and Lasting Power of Attorney · Private Clients · Private International Law

Languages Spoken

German, English

Career

Traineeship at the Princely Court of Justice (1994 – 1995)

Associate in the law firm of Dr. Dr. Batliner & Partner, Vaduz (1996 – 1998)

Traineeship at Becker Glynn Melamed & Muffly, New York (1999)

Associate with Dr. Dr. Batliner & Partner, Vaduz (2000)

Self-employed attorney-at-law (since 2000)

Judge at the Administrative Court (2001 – 2009)

Merger and formation of BWBLEGAL (2002)

Vice President of the Albatros Association (leisure opportunities for individuals with a mental or physical impairment) (2003 – 2015)

Member of the Board of Examiners of the Liechtenstein Bar Association (2006 – 2009)

Member of the board of FUNDEA Treuhand Anstalt (2006 – 2017)

Member of the board of BWBLEGAL (since 2008)

Member of the Liechtenstein Parliament (2009 – 2017)

Chairman of the standing Audit Commission of the Liechtenstein Parliament (GPK) (2009 – 2012)

Chairman of the standing EEA Commission of the Liechtenstein Parliament (EWR) (2013 – 2017)

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Sophie von Liechtenstein Stiftung für Frau und Kind (www.schwanger.li) (since 2015)

President of the Board of Trustees of the Liechtenstein Development Service (LED) (www.led.li) (2017 – 2022)

Member of the Board of Directors of the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority (FMA) (2020 – 2021)

President of the Board of Directors of the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority (FMA) (since 2022)

Education:

Studies of law at the University of Fribourg (lic. iur.) (1994)

Doctor’s degree at the University of Innsbruck (Dr. iur.) with the dissertation titled “Die Zuständigkeit zur Abhandlung internationaler Verlassenschaften im Fürstentum Liechtenstein und ihre Auswirkungen auf das Erbstatut” (Jurisdiction to Handle International Estates in the Principality of Liechtenstein and its Effects on the Lex Successionis) (1999)

Bar examination (1999)

Postgraduate studies at the University of St. Gallen in European and international business law (M.B.L.-HSG) (2001)

Professional Memberships

Liechtenstein Bar Association

Publications

Completed (in 2023) the update for the Liechtenstein Country Report for “Corporate Laws of the World”. This is a worldwide publication of the Germany-based publisher C.H. Beck.