Urs Hoffmann-Nowotny

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Urs Hoffmann-Nowotny is a Partner in our Dispute Resolution Group in Zurich. His main areas of practice are domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration as well as pre-litigation strategic advice.

Expertise

Dispute Resolution
International Arbitration
Restructuring and Insolvency
Financial Services

Experience

Acts as counsel before Swiss courts and arbitral tribunals in a wide range of commercial disputes
Special expertise in banking litigation, corporate law disputes (including liability of directors and officers) as well as the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, asset recovery and international legal assistance
Successful representation of UBS AG before the Zurich Commercial Court and the Federal Supreme Court in a CHF 25 million lawsuit brought by a Swatch Group company for losses suffered with bond fund investments during the financial crisis

Professional Experience

2017
Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer
2010
Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer
2006
Research and Teaching Assistant at University of Zurich
2004
Trainee at a Swiss business law firm
2004
Law clerk at the District Court of Meilen
2002
International Summer Trainee at a business law firm in Chicago
Education and Admission
2010
Dr. iur., University of Zurich
2006
Bar Admission in Switzerland
2003
lic. iur., University of Zurich

Additional Professional Activities

Publications on issues of civil procedure as well as civil and commercial law
Lecturer for civil procedure at the University of Zurich and in the CAS programme “Civil Litigation” of the University of St. Gallen

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