Europe
Practice Areas
Nadja Jaisli co-heads Bär & Karrer's arbitration practice and specializes in international commercial arbitration and litigation. She has extensive experience in representing clients before Swiss courts and in international arbitrations (both ad hoc and institutional), involving a wide array of matters. She has gained particular experience in the banking and finance, the pharmaceutical and the construction industries and regularly handles complex disputes arising from M&A transactions, joint ventures and shareholders' agreements, license and supply agreements as well as inheritance disputes. In addition to her work as party counsel, Nadja Jaisli frequently sits as arbitrator (in particular under ICC, Swiss, DIS and VIAC Rules and in ad hoc proceedings).
Nadja Jaisli serves as a Vice President of the ICC Swiss Commission on Arbitration and ADR and as a member of the Swiss Nomination Committee that proposes arbitrator candidates to the ICC Court in Paris. She is also a member of the Board of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) and regularly speaks and publishes in the field of international dispute resolution. She is listed in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and by Who's Who Legal in the fields of arbitration and litigation. Who's Who Legal ranked her amongst the four most highly regarded future leaders in arbitration 2018 and 2019 in Europe, listed her as a global leader in arbitration since 2020 as well as a global elite thought leader in litigation. In 2021 and 2022, Nadja Jaisli was awarded with the Europe Women in Business Law Award as Commercial Arbitration Lawyer of the Year.
Career
Partner at Bär & Karrer (since 2014)
Associate at Bär & Karrer (since 2006)
Admitted to the New York Bar (2008; not practicing)
New York University (NYU): LL.M. (2007; Hauser Global Scholar)
Admitted to the Zurich Bar (2005)
Law Clerk at the District Court of Horgen (2003-2004)
Universities of Zurich and Geneva: lic. iur. (2003)
Professional Memberships
Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR
Vice President of the ICC Swiss Commission on Arbitration and ADR / Member of the Swiss Nomination Committee
Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)
Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
Member of the Board of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
German Institution of Arbitration (DIS)
Austrian Arbitration Association (Arb/Aut)
New York State Bar Association
The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
ArbitralWomen
Languages Spoken
English
German
