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Tobias Zuberbühler
Tobias Zuberbühler has over 25 years of experience in dispute resolution and has acted as arbitrator and counsel in more than 100 international and domestic arbitration proceedings under various rules (ICC, Swiss Rules, DIS, CEPANI, VIAC, HKIAC). He has also rendered over 400 UDRP decisions as WIPO Domain Name Panelist.
Tobias is a former member of the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre, co-editor of the Commentary on the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration (3rd ed 2023) and co-author of a leading commentary on the IBA Rules of Evidence. He is recognized as one of the leading international arbitrators (Chambers Global, Who’s Who Legal Thought Leaders).
After 17 years as partner in an arbitration/litigation boutique, Tobias Zuberbühler has started his own practice as independent arbitrator in order to focus more on his arbitrator work.
Tobias graduated from the University of Zurich Law School (lic. iur.) and holds an LL.M. degree in International Legal Studies from Golden Gate University, San Francisco. He is fluent in German, English (7 years USA) and French.
Experience & Education
2023 - today
Zuberbühler Arbitration, Winterthur
2005 - 2023
Partner at Lustenberger + Partners, Zurich
2011 - 2012
Anti-Corruption Officer, Credit Suisse AG, Zurich
1999 - 2005
Senior Associate at MME Partners, Zurich
1997 - 1998
Junior Associate at Wyler & Lustenberger, Zurich
1999
Zurich Bar, Admitted to all Swiss Courts
1996
LL.M. International Legal Studies, Golden Gate University, San Francisco
1994
lic. iur., University of Zurich
October - Album of the Month
BAND – Eddie Vedder
Album – Into The Wild
Time for a new genre – film soundtracks. Into The Wild is a 2007 film directed by Sean Penn, based on a reportage by Jon Krakauer about Christopher McCandless, a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless, Hal Holbrook, Catherine Keener, William Hurt and a very young Kristen Stewart.
After some bad decisions (shooting an elk that attracts bears) and bad luck (being unable to cross a stream because of melted glacier water), McCandless dies in a deserted school bus out in the wilderness after mixing up edible plants with poisonous ones.
The soundtrack was the first solo album of Eddie Vedder, the singer of Pearl Jam and to me the best vocalist in rock history. The music is completely different than Pearl Jam’s grunge, but just as good in quality. Consistently wonderful melodies meet great lyrics (“I know the rules but the rules do not know me”). “Guarantee” won an Oscar for best film song.
