Alexandra C. JOHNSON

 
Office : Geneva
Rue Firmin-Massot 9, 1206 Geneva, Switzerland
Phone(s): +41 22 702 15 15

Fax(es): +41 22 702 14 14


E-Mail : ajohnson@pplex.ch

Practice groups :
  • Arbitration
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Litigation and Insolvency
Spoken languages :
  • French
  • English
  • German
Bar admissions :
  • New York Bar, 2002
  • Neuchâtel Bar, 1999
Education :
  • Harvard Law School, (LL. M., 2001)
  • University of Neuchâtel, (Lic. iur., summa cum laude, 1997)
Positions held :
  • Attorney-at-Law, Schellenberg Wittmer, Geneva (2005-2010)
  • Attorney-at-Law, Clifford Chance LLP, London (2002-2004)
  • Attorney-at-Law, Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP, New York (2001-2002)
  • Attorney-at-Law, KGG & Associés, Neuchâtel (1999-2000)
  • Teaching Assistant, Law Faculty of the University of Neuchâtel, (1999-2000)
  • Trainee, KGG & Associés, Neuchâtel, (1997-1999)
Memberships :
  • Member of the Global Advisory Board of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution Young & International (ICDR Y&I)
  • Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
  • International Bar Association
  • International Arbitration Institute
  • LCIA Young International Arbitration Group
  • Harvard Club of Switzerland
Publications :
  • Arbitrating Labour Disputes in Switzerland, Journal of International Arbitration (co-author Isabelle Wildhaber, publication forthcoming)
  • Review of the Recent Case Law of the Swiss Federal Tribunal in International Arbitration, in Müller/A Rigozzi (Eds.), New Developments in International Commercial Arbitration 2010 (publication forthcoming)
  • Die Schiedsfähigkeit von individualarbeitsrechtlichen Streitigkeiten in der Binnenschiedsgerichtsbarkeit, ARV 10 (2010) S. 160-169 (co-author Isabelle Wildhaber)
  • Control of the arbitral tribunal's jurisdiction in parallel proceedings and waiver of arbitration, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, December 2009 (co-author Georg von Segesser)
  • Arbitration of Merger and Acquisition Disputes (Ed.), ASA Special Series No. 23, 2005, 291 pp. (co-editor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler)
  • ’Minimum Fairness Requirements' in US Arbitration: Potential Implications for International Commercial Arbitration, IBA Committee D News (Newsletter of the Arbitration and ADR Committee of the Section on Business Law) (October 2002) (co-author James Hosking)
  • Modifying the Scope of Review of Arbitral Awards in the US, LCIA News (November 2001) (co-authors David Lindsey and James Hosking)
Speeches :
  • Arbitrator Challenges (moderator, ICDR Y&I, Paris, 16 November 2010)
  • Review of the Recent Case Law of the Swiss Federal Tribunal in International Arbitration, speaker, CEMAJ Conference on New Developments in International Commercial Arbitration, Neuchâtel, 12 November 2010)
  • Emergency Arbitration: pre-arbitral proceedings (speaker, AIJA Annual Arbitration Seminar, London, 18 June 2010)
  • Taming Wild Horses: Managing Information Exchange in the Era of eDiscovery (moderator, ICDR Young & International, New York, November 15, 2008)
  • The Award of Costs and Interests in International Arbitration (moderator, ICDR Young & International, Vienna, 15 March 2008)
  • Who is to engage the Expert? How to Select the Expert? (Speaker, ASA below 40 Seminar, October 2003)
 
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