Christoph Brunner

Practice Areas

M&A, joint ventures, construction / infrastructure projects, sales, distribution, agency and licensing contracts and commercial contracts in general.

Extensive experience in energy (including price adjustment disputes; electricity supply, photovoltaics, natural resources), construction and engineering, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, high-tech products, machinery, information and communication technology, aerospace, automotive, railways, telecommunication, insurance, sports marketing, and commodity trading.

Career

Christoph Brunner is the founding partner of Brunner Arbitration LLC and thus entirely independent. He has acted as presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator, party-appointed arbitrator, counsel, and legal expert in more than 120 international commercial arbitrations governed by various institutional and ad hoc rules.

Christoph Brunner is a Titular Professor at the University of Bern. He was previously a partner at Peter & Kim and has been practicing international commercial arbitration for more than 25 years. He is among others a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. He regularly speaks at national and international conferences and has published several books and numerous articles on commercial law and international arbitration.

Professional Memberships

• ICC Swiss Commission of Arbitration

• ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR

• VIAC List of Practitioner in International Arbitration

• LCIA European Users’ Council

• German Institution of Arbitration (DIS)

• International Arbitration Institute (IAI), Paris

• Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)

• ELArb

• ACT List of Arbitrators

• Swiss and International Bar Association

• International Association of Boalt Alumni (Berkeley);

• Former member working group Supplemental Swiss Rules for Corporate Law Disputes

• Jusletter (head editor of section domestic and international sales law); Push Service, Weblaw (co-editor of section on contract law).

Publications

Christoph Brunner is the author of numerous publications in the field of international arbitration and commercial law. For a list of publications see https://www.brunner-arbitration.ch/, Publications.

Languages Spoken

English, German and French

Education