Anne-Catherine Hahn

Dr. Anne-Catherine Hahn, LLM. is a Swiss-qualified dispute resolution lawyer and partner at Wartmann Merker, a Zurich-based boutique firm. She has more than 25 years of experience in international arbitration, mediation and court litigation. Prior to joining her current firm, she was a partner at Baker McKenzie and worked alongside patent attorneys and technology experts at IPrime Legal, a leading Swiss intellectual property law firm. Anne-Catherine Hahn acts as counsel, arbitrator and mediator in complex commercial disputes, with a particular focus on software and IT, robotics, machinery, and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. Her experience includes disputes relating to licensing, industrial projects, trade secrets and know-how, research and development projects (including projects involving universities and other publicly funded organisations), as well as post-M&A and joint venture disputes. Among her recent matters are disputes concerning semiconductor and microelectronics technology, manufacturing operations and supply chains in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and audiovisual rights relating to international sporting events. As arbitrator, Anne-Catherine Hahn has acted in more than 15 cases, including appointments as presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator and party-appointed arbitrator. She has acted as mediator in more than five mediation cases and regularly supports and represents clients as counsel in disputes and high-stakes negotiations. Dr. Hahn is a member of various professional organisations, including the ICC Swiss National Committee and its Commission on Arbitration and ADR, the Swiss Arbitration Association, the German Arbitration Institute and the Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation. She regularly publishes, teaches and speaks on the areas of her practice, and serves as president of a conciliation commission responsible for gender-related employment disputes within the ETH Domain. Anne-Catherine Hahn holds a bilingual (German/French) law degree and a doctorate from the University of Fribourg/Switzerland, as well as an LL.M. from the University of Michigan. She completed her mediator training in Germany and works in German, English and French, with conversational Italian.