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Nadja Jaisli Kull

Receives praise for her compelling attitude and excellent understanding of the client's business and needs.

Chambers Global 2018

Nadja Jaisli Kull is truly outstanding and among the best of her generation.

Source in Legal 500 2024

The team around Nadja Jaisli Kull stands out for being hard-working, very competent, with outstanding advocacy skills. They are also sympathic and likeable.

Source in Legal 500 2024

Nadja Jaisli Kull is THE top shot in the Swiss market.

Legal 500

Nadja Jaisli Kull is always on top of things and extremely responsive.

Legal 500

Nadja Jaisli Kull: highly professional, to the point, persuasive and assertive but not unnecessarily aggressive.

Legal 500

Nadja Jaisli Kull is a leading name in the Swiss arbitration market, and is identified by source as "a extremely good arbitrator and counsel, who always makes a good impression".

Who's Who Legal Thought Leaders Switzerland 2023

Nadja Jaisli Kull sits among the foremost litigators in the market who excels in contentious matters arising from the financial, pharmaceutical and transport sectors.

Who's Who Legal Thought Leaders Switzerland 2023

Nadja Jaisli Kull’s client service and general level of service, level of sophistication, and commercial awareness and vision are very strong.

Client in Chambers 2023

She is very quick, able to control witnesses and a very impressive cross-examiner.

Client in Chambers Europe 2023

Nadja Jaisli Kull consistently impresses market commentators with her thorough and commercial approach to high-value litigation.

Who's Who Legal Thought Leaders - Commercial Litigation 2023

She is a brilliant lawyer and very determined.

Client in Who is Who Legal Arbitration 2023

She has a very calm and strategic mind.

Client in Chambers Europe 2023

Nadja is a very impressive arbitration specialist.

Client in Who is Who Legal Arbitration 2023

Very commercial-orientated, very focused and to-the-point advice and support.

Client in GAR 100, 2022

Very reliable, to the point, down-to-earth and realistic, we felt exceptionally well represented.

Client in Legal 500, 2022

Represents the interests of her clients very effectively and resolutely.

Legal 500 2021

Top choice!

Source in WWL 2021

Great personal skills and right level of humour; looks into the very details of matters that others miss out.

Legal 500 2021

Extremely prepared

Source in Chambers Europe 2021

Very smart

Source in Chambers Europe 2021

She has a stellar reputation in commercial litigation, and is known for her top-tier representation of large-scale clients before Swiss courts.

Source in WWL 2021

An outstanding arbitrator.

Source in WWL 2021

Great to work with.

Source in WWL 2021

A leader in the litigation field.

Source in WWL 2021

Nadja Jaisli Kull is one of the best arbitrators in Switzerland.

Source in WWL 2021

She is a very thorough counsel and arbitrator, pragmatic and quick to identify commercial solutions.

Source in WWL 2021

She is bright and experienced lawyer and arbitrator, who is always on top of the case.

Source in WWL 2021

She is a key name in the Swiss litigation market.

Who's Who Litigation 2020

Has an excellent business understanding and the skills to develop a good strategy with the client.

Source in Legal 500 2020

She is an outstanding team manager and able to cope with an immense work load.

Source in Legal 500 2020

Does an excellent job and fights well for her clients.

Source in Chambers Global 2020

Is an expert and really good at drafting the filings.

Client in Chambers Global 2020

A fabulous and very talented practitioner, recognised as a leading lawyer in Switzerland and truly outstanding.

Who's Who Legal Arbitration 2020

An established figure and a tough practitioner.

Who's Who Legal 2019

Clients are impressed by her business understanding, expertise in ICC procedures and her excellent legal and social skills.

Who's Who Legal 2019

Good ability to grasp what is really important and get the right message straight away.

Sources in Chambers Global 2019

A calm, decisive and highly persuasive arbitration lawyer who is recognised as one of the premier arbitration practitioners of her generation.

Who's Who Legal 2019

Praised for her hardworking and no-nonsense approach.

Who's Who Legal 2018

A very talented practitioner commended for her standout work as both counsel and arbitrator.

Who's Who Legal 2018

Receives praise for her compelling attitude and excellent understanding of the client's business and needs.

Chambers Global 2018

Nadja Jaisli Kull is truly outstanding and among the best of her generation.

Source in Legal 500 2024

Porträt

Nadja Jaisli ist Co-Leiterin der Schiedsgerichtspraxis bei Bär & Karrer und befasst sich vorwiegend mit internationalen Schiedsverfahren und der Prozessführung vor Schweizer Gerichten. Sie hat breite Erfahrung als Parteivertreterin vor staatlichen Gerichten und in internationalen Schiedsverfahren (sowohl ad hoc als auch institutionell). Besondere Erfahrung hat Nadja Jaisli in den Bereichen Banken und Finanzdienstleistungen, Pharma und Bauwesen, und sie führt regelmässig komplexe Verfahren in Bezug auf M&A- Transaktionen, Joint Ventures und Aktionärbindungsverträge, Lizenz- und Lieferverträge sowie erbrechtliche Streitigkeiten. Neben ihrer Tätigkeit als Parteivertreterin ist Nadja Jaisli häufig auch als Schiedsrichterin tätig (insbesondere unter ICC, Swiss, DIS und VIAC Rules).

Nadja Jaisli ist Vizepräsidentin der ICC Swiss Commission of Arbitration and ADR und Mitglied des Swiss Nomination Committee, welches dem ICC Schiedsgerichtshof in Paris Schiedsrichterkandidaten und -kandidatinnen vorschlägt. Sie ist zudem Mitglied des Vorstands der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (ASA) und hält regelmässig Vorträge und publiziert im Bereich der internationalen Streitbeilegung. Sie ist in Chambers Global und Chambers Europe, Legal 500 sowie in Who's Who Legal für die Bereiche Arbitration und Litigation gelistet. Zudem stufte Who's Who Legal sie unter den vier angesehensten Future Leaders in Arbitration 2018 und 2019 in Europa ein, als ein Global Leader in Arbitration seit 2020 sowie als Global Elite Thought Leader in Litigation. In den Jahren 2021 und 2022 wurde Nadja Jaisli auch mit dem Europe Women in Business Law Award als "Commercial Arbitration Lawyer of the Year" ausgezeichnet.

Work Highlights
  • Represented a multinational company in an ICC arbitration relating to an industrial plant, including parallel litigation in Switzerland and several interim measures proceedings.
  • Represented a pharma company in an ICC arbitration regarding the distribution of a medical product in the Middle East.
  • Represented a German company in a Swiss rules arbitration against two Chinese companies under an international sales contract.
  • Represented a multinational pharma company in an ICC arbitration against a US company relating to a manufacturing agreement.
  • Represented a defendant in a SCAI arbitration in the commodities trading industry.
  • Represented a US company in a post-acquisition SCAI arbitration in the automotive industry.
  • Represented several defendants in a post-acquisition multi-party SCAI arbitration involving parallel litigation in another jurisdiction.
  • Represented a globally active organization in a high profile employment law dispute.
  • Advised a Swiss defendant in a US class action on Swiss law aspects of the US discovery process.
  • Represented a Swiss company in litigation before the Zurich Commercial Court in connection with the transfer of more than 30 projects in the transportation industry.
  • Sole arbitrator in a DIS arbitration regarding the worldwide distribution of a medical device.
  • Party appointed arbitrator in an ICC arbitration seated in London relating to a construction project.
  • Chair in an ICC arbitration seated in Amsterdam in the energy industry.
  • Represented an heir in enforcing his/her information rights in court.
SprachenDeutsch, Englisch
Lebenslauf
  • Partnerin bei Bär & Karrer (seit 2014)
  • Associate bei Bär & Karrer (seit 2006)
  • Zulassung zum New York Bar (2008; nicht praktizierend)
  • New York University (NYU): LL.M. (2007; Hauser Global Scholar)
  • Anwaltspatent Zürich (2005)
  • Auditorat am Bezirksgericht Horgen (2003-2004)
  • Universitäten Zürich und Genf: lic. iur. (2003)
Mitgliedschaften und Ämter
  • Mitglied der ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR
  • Vizepräsidentin der ICC Swiss Commission on Arbitration and ADR / Mitglied des Swiss Nomination Committee
  • Schweizerischer Anwaltsverband (SAV)
  • Zürcher Anwaltsverband (ZAV)
  • Mitglied des Vorstands der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (ASA)
  • Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS)
  • Austrian Arbitration Association (Arb/Aut)
  • New York State Bar Association
  • The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
  • ArbitralWomen
ZulassungAn allen schweizerischen Gerichten

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Als "leading" in Commercial Litigation und International Arbitration bewertet

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von Who's Who Legal Switzerland 2023

Als "leading" in Commercial Litigation und International Arbitration bewertet

von Leaders League 2023

Als "Recommended" bewertet

von Who's Who Legal Switzerland 2023

Kontakt

Nadja Jaisli Kull
T: +41 58 261 53 12

Bär & Karrer AG
Brandschenkestrasse 90
CH-8002 Zürich
Schweiz

Assistentin
Cheyenne Zurkinden
T: +41 58 261 56 36

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