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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

About

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.

Recent 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.
LanguagesGerman, English
Curriculum
  • 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)
Memberships and Public Offices
  • 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
AdmissionAll Swiss Courts

Nadja Jaisli Kull's Deals, Cases & News

Ranked as "leading" in Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration

by Leaders League 2023

Ranked as "Recommended"

by Who's Who Legal Switzerland 2023

Ranked as "leading" in Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration

by Leaders League 2023

Ranked as "Recommended"

by Who's Who Legal Switzerland 2023

Contact

Bär & Karrer Ltd.
Brandschenkestrasse 90
CH-8002 Zurich
Switzerland

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