Education and Experience

• University of Zurich (lic. iur., 1982 – 1987)
• Research assistant and doctoral candidate at the chair of Prof. Dr. Peter Forstmoser at the University of Zurich (1987 – 1990)
• Judicial and legal internships (1991 – 1994)
• Admitted to the Bar (Zurich 1995)
• Legal secretary at the Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich (1995 – 1997)
• University of Zurich (Dr. iur., 1996)
• London School of Economics and Political Science LSE (LL.M. in Commercial and Corporate Law, IT and Telecommunications Law, International Arbitration, Dispute Resolution and Intellectual Property Law, 1998 -1999)
• Secondment as Legal Counsel in the International Legal Service of an energy company in Brussels (2000)
• Attorney at law in various commercial law firms in Zurich (1997 – 2008)
• Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen HSG and other Swiss universities (since 2002)
• Lecturer in energy law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW (2014 – 2018)
• Vice-President of the Swiss Federal Electricity Commission ElCom (2007 -2018)
• Self-employed Attorney at Law (2009 -2019)
• Swiss Board School of the University of St. Gallen HSG (Board of Directors programme “New Concepts for the Board of Directors”, Corporate Governance, 2018)
• Partner at Stiffler & Partner Rechtsanwälte (2019-2021)
• Partner at Badertscher Rechtsanwälte AG (since 2021)

• Swiss Bar Association SBA: Specialist training in mediation with the qualification “Mediator SBA” (2023/24)