Biography: Arbitration

Markus Wirth is a senior partner in Homburger's litigation and arbitration practice group, which has more than 20 attorneys specialising in international dispute resolution services.

For many years Mr Wirth has focused on international arbitration, where he has acted as counsel and arbitrator. As counsel, he has represented Swiss and foreign companies as well as foreign governments in numerous international arbitration proceedings in Switzerland and elsewhere. As arbitrator he has served in over 130 international arbitrations with seats in Europe, North America and Asia, in the majority as chairman of the panel or as sole arbitrator, under a variety of institutional rules and in ad hoc proceedings.

Mr Wirth's arbitration experience includes disputes relating to M&A transactions, joint ventures, licensing, distribution, long-term supply contracts, international commodity sales, EPC contracts, project financing, air transport, telecommunication, competition matters and investor-state disputes.

Mr Wirth is a member of the executive board and an honorary president of the Swiss Arbitration Association, a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, and on the arbitrators' list of several arbitration institutions. He is also a lecturer on arbitration in the University of Zurich's postgraduate programme in international business law and he regularly publishes in the field of international commercial arbitration.

Mr Wirth graduated lic iur and Dr iur from the University of Zurich and received an LLM from the University of Toronto.