| Admission | Austria, 2005
Spain, 2008
Switzerland (foreign lawyer), 2008 | | Nationality | Austrian | | Languages | German English, French, Spanish Italian | | | Areas of practice |
Werner Jahnel joined LALIVE in 2008 and has been based in the Zurich office since 2010. He specialises in international arbitration and commercial law. He also regularly advises private clients on international estate planning and inheritance law matters.
Werner Jahnel has extensive experience as counsel and arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional proceedings (ICC, Swiss Rules, LCIA, CEPANI, Vienna Rules, SCC, Tribunal Arbitral de Barcelona, and Corte de arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio de Madrid), and subject to various procedural and substantive laws. He is a founding member of the Association of Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP) and a founding member of the Barcelona branch of CEA-40 (Spanish Arbitration Club). He is also a member of ASA and ASA below 40, CEA (Club Español de Arbitraje), the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) and DIS40 and the Zurich Bar Association. He has been admitted to the list of arbitrators of the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.
Since 2009, Werner Jahnel has been ranked by Chambers Europe and Chambers Global in the area of dispute resolution (as an Austrian and Spanish attorney practicing in Switzerland).
Werner Jahnel previously worked as an associate in arbitration and corporate law at Monereo, Meyer & Marinel-Lo Abogados in Barcelona and Madrid (2006-2008), and in international arbitration with Andreas Reiner & Partners in Vienna (2002-2005). He was a legal counsel (1999-2001) and counsel ad hoc (2006) at the ICC in Paris (International Court of Arbitration, International Chamber of Commerce). He trained as a clerk in various Austrian courts (1996-1998) and was assistant to the Austrian trade commissioner in Montreal, Canada, in 1995.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Graz in Austria, awarded in 2001 with distinction, and a Master's degree in international studies (specialisation in public international law and international business law) from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva (1996-1998). He also studied law at the University of Lyon II, France, and obtained in 1995 his Magister der Rechtswissenschaften from the University of Graz, Austria.
- Revision der Swiss Rules – erhöhte Effizienz und Flexibilität
Bernd Ehle, Werner Jahnel, 2012
SchiedsVZ (German Arb. J.) 4/2012, pp. 169-177
- ICC Schiedsgerichtsordnung 2012
Werner Jahnel, 2012
ECOLEX, Fachzeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht, 1/2012, pp. 35-39
- Freezing of assets held by foreign parties in Swiss banks
Werner Jahnel, 2010
In: Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution 2010 (Digital Guide, Executiveview.com), pp. 144-146
- Kommentar der ICC Schiedsgerichtsordnung
Werner Jahnel, Andreas Reiner , 2010
Institutionelle Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, 1st edition (2005) and 2nd edition (2010),
Prof. Rolf A. Schütze, Heymanns Verlag, Berlin
- Anti-suit and anti-arbitration injunctions in international arbitration: A Swiss perspective
Matthias Scherer, Werner Jahnel, 2009
International Arbitration Law Review, Vol. 12, Issue 4, 2009, pp. 66-73
- Specific issues regarding the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Spain: Can arbitrators still use registered letters with acknowledgement of receipt?
Werner Jahnel, Eva Vázquez Pozón, 2009
In: "The Award and the Courts", Chapter III, Austrian Arbitration Yearbook 2009, (Ed.) Manzsche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH, Vienna, 2009, pp. 435-458
Lecturer
Northwestern University, Chicago
Executive Master of Laws (EXLL.M.) program on international legal practice
International arbitration
2010 -
Adjunct professor
Instituto de Empresa (IE) Law School, Madrid
Master of Laws (LL.M.) program on international legal practice
International arbitration
2006 -
International Chamber of Commerce Austria (ICC Austria)Schweizer + deutsches Recht als Alternative in internationalen Verträgen (Swiss and German law as an alternative in international contracts)
Vienna, 14-15 May 2013Speakers: Vor- und Nachteile für Anwender und Juristen in der täglichen Vertragspraxis (Overview of specific issues of Swiss law for legal practitioners)
For more information, see the programme.
International Chamber of Commerce Austria (ICC Austria)Study of a complex mock case under the 2012 ICC Arbitration Rules
Vienna, 17-20 October 2012Speaker/Moderator: Enforceability of awards: particularity of State immunity / Practical aspects of Arbitral Tribunal’s deliberations in ICC proceedings
International Chamber of Commerce Austria (ICC Austria)Deutsches + Schweizer Recht als Alternative in internationalen Verträgen (German and Swiss law as an alternative in international contracts)
Vienna, 17-18 April 2012Speakers: Vor- und Nachteile für Anwender und Juristen in der täglichen Vertragspraxis (Overview of specific issues of Swiss law for legal practitioners)
ICC AlgeriaStudy of a mock case under the ICC Arbitration Rules
Algiers, 28-30 November 2011Moderator
International Chamber of Commerce Austria (ICC Austria)Study of a complex mock case under the 2012 ICC Arbitration Rules
Vienna, 9-12 November 2011Speaker/Moderator: The selection and appointment of arbitrators and confidentiality issues in ICC proceedings
Wirtschaftskammer ÖsterreichGOING SWISS – Wissenswertes aus der Praxis für erfolgreiche Geschäfte mit der Schweiz
St. Pölten/Klagenfurt/Vienna, Austria, March and September 2011Speaker: Rahmenbedingungen im österreichisch-schweizerischen Handelsverkehr
ICC TunisiaProblèmes actuels de l’arbitrage international CCI dans le contexte de la révolution en Tunisie
Tunis, 16 June 2011Speaker
Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS)Die Unabhängigkeit und Unparteilichkeit von Schiedsrichtern
Cologne, 14 April 2011Speaker: Die IBA Guidelines on Conflict of Interest in International Arbitration
International Chamber of Commerce Austria (ICC Austria)Deutsches + Schweizer Recht als Alternative in internationalen Verträgen (German and Swiss law as an alternative in international contracts)
Vienna, 8/9 March 2011Speakers: Vor- und Nachteile für österreichische Anwender und Juristen in der täglichen Vertragspraxis (Overview of specific issues of Swiss law for Austrian legal practitioners)
ICC Austria/Association of Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP)Vienna Arbitration Days 2011
Vienna, 4/5 March 2011Organiser
Internationale Handelskammer (ICC Paris)/Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF)Arbitration at home or abroad, does it really matter?
Geneva, 3 December 2010Moderator
Belgian Center for Mediation and Arbitration CEPANI 40Walking a thin line. What an arbitrator can do, must do or must not do
Brussels, 29 September 2010Speaker: The Arbitrator as a settlement facilitator
ICC YAF / YAAP (Austria)Young approaches to arbitration
Vienna 4 April 2009Moderator