Daniel Marugg
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW (UNIVERSITY OF BERNE)
LL.M. (UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM)
FCIArb | FSIArb | CIAE | COMMERCIAL MEDIATOR CEDR | MEDIATOR SAV
Daniel Marugg is a proven and experienced arbitrator and litigator. He is regularly appointed as an arbitrator in complex domestic and international proceedings (→).
Meanwhile, he has 30 years of professional experience in conducting proceedings as a party representative before arbitral tribunals as well as before state courts. In addition, Daniel Marugg practices as a mediator in commercial disputes. He also acts as an expert on international law issues. Furthermore, Daniel Marugg represents selected clients in white collar criminal litigation.
In 2016, Daniel Marugg founded Marugg Dispute Resolution in Zurich. He is independent and free of conflict in his activities in arbitration, litigation and commercial mediation. Due to his long standing professional experience, Daniel Marugg is, however, as far as and where necessary, well connected.
For roughly 20 years, from 1998 until May 2016, Daniel Marugg was a partner and Head of Litigation and Arbitration at various internationally active commercial law firms in Zurich. He began his career as an attorney-at-law at his own law firm in Berne after passing the Bar in 1991. After attaining his LL.M. in Amsterdam, he continued practicing law in a commercial law firm focused on litigation in Zurich.
Daniel Marugg graduated from the University of Berne in 1991 where he studied law. Between 1994 and 1995 he completed his Master's Degree (LL.M.) in competition- and international commercial law at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 1995, he completed the Leyden-Amsterdam-Columbia Summer Program in American Law of the Universities of Amsterdam and Columbia/New York. In 2016, Daniel Marugg was accredited as a Commercial Mediator CEDR by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, London, and in 2018 certified as Mediator SAV by the Swiss Bar Association. Daniel Marugg was appointed to act as an arbitrator of the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre (SHIAC) in 2018, with renewed appointment in 2022. Since 2020, he is on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (FCIArb), as well as the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (FSIArb). In addition, Daniel Marugg is a Certified Islamic Arbitrator & Expert IICRA, Dubai (CIAE), since 2020.
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