Dr. Mladen Stojiljković, LL.M.

Partner

stojiljkovic@ndlegal.ch
+41 44 250 45 61
+41 78 884 78 29
DE, EN, FR, Serbian
Mladen Stojiljkovic focuses his practice on commercial and investment treaty arbitration, domestic and international litigation, and judgment and award enforcement. He regularly serves as arbitrator.

Recognitions

  • Recognized by Who's Who Legal as "Thought Leader Global Elite – Commercial Litigation – under 45 2023"

  • Recognized by Who’s Who Legal (2021 and 2022) as one of the most highly regarded in the category "Future Leaders – Europe, Middle East, and Africa – Non-Partners – Commercial Litigation" (Europe, Middle East and Africa)

  • Who's Who Legal Future Leader (Arbitration, since 2019; Litigation, since 2018)

  • Ranked in Leader’s League (International Arbitration: "Highly Recommended"; Dispute Resolution: "Excellent")

  • Recognized in Legal 500 for Litigation and Arbitration

  • Recognized by Euromoney/Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides as “Rising Star” in “Commercial Arbitration”

Bar Admissions

  • Switzerland (2010)

  • California (2022)

Professional Experience

  • Partner at Nater Dallafior (since 2023)

  • Counsel at Vischer (2019-2023)

  • Associate at Homburger (2011-2013, 2015-2019)

  • International Counsel at Williams & Connolly, LLP (2014-2015)

  • Research Assistant for Professor George Bermann, Columbia Law School (2013-2014)

  • Assistant for Professor Helmut Heiss, University of Zurich (2007, 2009-2011)

  • Assistant for Professor Heinrich Honsell, University of Zurich (2007)

Education

  • Columbia Law School, LL.M. (2014)

  • University of Zurich, PhD in law (2014)

  • University of Zurich, lic. iur. (2007)

Other Professional Activities

  • Arbitrator at the International Chamber of Commerce (Swiss Arbitrators List)

  • Author at Weblaws’ digital case notes (’digitaler Rechtsprechungskommentar) for Private International Law/International Civil Procedure and Arbitration and Civil Procedure

Recent Cases

  • Representing holders of Contingent Capital Awards cancelled in connection with the merger of Credit Suisse and UBS 

  • Representing Credit Suisse employees in appeals against the Federal Department of Finance in connection with cancelled outstanding variable deferred compensation 

  • Representation of holders of Credit Suisse’s Additional Tier1 capital instruments in appeals against FINMA  

  • Representing a Swiss insurance company in disputes with former independent insurance agents 

  • Representing a cybersecurity company in a dispute with a customer over the early termination of a firewall contract 

  • Representing the purchaser in a post-M&A dispute over the breach of reps and warranties in Swiss courts 

  • Representing a major European telecommunications company in Swiss litigation against a competitor

  • Representing a Serbian national in pre-judgment attachment proceedings in Switzerland, while main proceeding was pending in the State of New York 

  • Representing an Eastern European software developer in a contract dispute with a Swiss counterparty in Swiss courts 

  • Representation of US plaintiff in service of process in Switzerland under the Hague Convention of 1965 

  • Representing a Swiss company in multiple award and judgment enforcement actions brought by a foreign company 

  • Representing creditors in proceedings for the recognition and enforcement of judgments in Switzerland 

  • Representing victims of investment fraud and embezzlement in Swiss criminal proceedings and related civil claims and asset recovery actions 

  • Acting as expert witness on Swiss contract law in a proceeding in the State of Florida 

  • Acting as expert witness on Swiss law of civil procedure in a proceeding in Tel Aviv, Israel 

  • Representing a US investor in an investment treaty dispute with a European State 

  • Representing a European Investor in an investment treaty dispute with a European State 

  • Representing a Croatian company in a Vienna-seated ICC arbitration with an Austrian company 

  • Representing a Czech national in Swiss Rules arbitration regarding a disputed loan-repayment claim under lex mercatoria rules 

  • Representing in ICC arbitration a pharmaceutical company in a patent licensing arbitration with a licensee 

  • Representing in ICC arbitration a pharmaceutical company in a contract termination dispute with a distributor 

  • Emergency Arbitration and subsequent Swiss Rules proceedings representing a Turkish distributor of consumer electronics in a dispute about unlawful termination 

  • Representing a defendant in an arbitral award enforcement action brought by the award creditor (over CHF 240 million) 

  • Representing the creditor in award enforcement action in Switzerland relating to an arbital award issued in Belgrade, Serbia 

  • Acting as Sole Arbitrator in an Istanbul-seated ICC arbitration between a Turkish and an Uzbekistani company

  • Acting as Sole Arbitrator in Zurich-based Swiss Rules arbitration between a German and a Russian company relating to a construction project 

  • Acting as Co-Arbitrator in a Belgrade-seated arbitration between a Serbian and a Swiss company under the CISG and Serbian law 

  • Acting as Co-arbitrator in a Zurich-based ad hoc arbitration between a US and a European company 

Publications & Speaking Engagements

  • The Parties’ Obligations of Diligence When Challenging Arbitrators – Two Recent Cases From Switzerland and England, in: b-Arbitra (forthcoming) 

  • Der Vorausverzicht auf die Revision von Schiedsurteilen, Case Note on Decision 4A_69/2022, dRSK, Weblaw, 3. März 2023 (with A. Winter) 

  • Strenge Präklusionsvorschrift bei unbezifferten Forderungsklagen, Case Note on Decision 4A_581/2021, dRSK, Weblaw, 23. Februar 2023 (with A. Müller) 

  • Art. 18-21 LugÜ (jurisdiction in employment matters), in: Basler Kommentar, Lugano Übereinkommen, 3. Aufl., 2023 

  • Wer entscheidet über die Rechtzeitigkeit der Aberkennungsklage – Betreibungsamt oder ausländisches Schiedsgericht?, Case Note on Decision 5A_496/2021, dRSK, Weblaw, 9. September 2022 

  • Art. 30a, 261-264, 266-267, 268-270, in: Basler Kommentar, Schuldbetreibungs- und Konkursgesetz, 3. Aufl. 2022 (with M. Staehelin) 

  • Zur Substanziierungslast der nicht beweisbelasteten Partei, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess- und Zwangsvollstreckungsrecht (ZZZ), 57/2022, 3-6 

  • Swiss Federal Court addresses waiver clause under Article 192 PILA, Case Note on Decision 4A_382/2021, in digitaler Rechtsprechungskommentar (dRSK), Weblaw, 16. Dezember 2021 

  • Contract Interpretation under the CISG from the perspective of Swiss law: selected issues, in: Unifikacija prava i pravna sigurnost, Zbornik radova 33. Susreta Kopaoničke škole prirodnog prava – Slobodan Perović, Tom III, Belgrad, 2020, 53-63 

  • Subjective Interpretation of Arbitration Agreements and Judicial Review, Case Note on Decision 4A_418/2019, dRSK, Weblaw, 24. September 2020 

  • Burden and Standard of Proof in Investment Arbitration, in Investment Treaty Arbitration Law Review, 5th Ed., 2020 (with D. Favalli) 

  • Arrestprosequierung mittels Schiedsklage, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess- und Zwangsvollstreckungsrecht (ZZZ), 2020, 21-29 

  • Zur Auslegung von Schiedsvereinbarungen, Case Note on Decision 4A_342/2019, dRSK, Weblaw, 31. März 2020 (with S. Pfenninger) 

  • Swiss Federal Court Addresses Jurisdiction and Admissibility in CAS Arbitration, Case Note on Decision 4A_413/2019, dRSK, Weblaw, 17. Dezember 2019 

  • State Immunity from Enforcement and the New York Convention, Case Note on Decision 5A_942/2017 (BGE 144 III 441), dRSK, Weblaw, 30. September 2019 

  • Non-Signatories and Article II of the New York Convention, Case Note on Decision 4A_646/2018 (BGE 145 III 199), dRSK, Weblaw, 22. Juli 2019 

  • Zur Schiedsfähigkeit arbeitsrechtlicher Streitigkeiten, Case Note on Decision 4A_7/2018 (BGE 144 III 235), dRSK, Weblaw, 31. Mai 2018 

  • Arbitration clauses in corporate bylaws, Case Note on Decision 4A_344/2017, dRSK, Weblaw, 21. März 2018 

  • The arbitration agreement: an unreviewable finding of fact?, Case Note on Decision 4A_150/2017, dRSK, Weblaw, 21. Februar 2018 

  • Waiving any recourse against the arbitral award – do parties waive also the right to request revision?, Case Note on Decision 4A_53/2017 (BGE 143 III 589), dRSK, Weblaw, 19. Dezember 2017 

  • Swiss Supreme Court Addresses Judicial Reviewability of Interim Awards on Jurisdiction, Case Note on Decision 4A_98/2017 (BGE 143 III 462), dRSK, Weblaw, 18. August 2017 

  • Challenging Interim Awards on Jurisdiction in Swiss-seated Arbitrations, Euromoney Commercial Arbitration Expert Guide 2017 (with G. Naegeli) 

  • Arbitral Jurisdiction and Court Review: Three Swiss Federal Supreme Court Decisions to Reconsider, ASA Bulletin 4/2016, 897-913 

  • The Challenge of an Arbitral Award on the Basis of Pararegulatory Texts, in: D. Favalli (Hrsg.), Sense and Nonsense of Guidelines, Rules and Other Pararegulatory Texts, ASA Special Series No. 37, 2015 (with B. Gross) 

  • Art. 18-21 LugÜ (jurisdiction in employment matters), in: Basler Kommentar, Lugano Übereinkommen, 1st ed. 2011 und 2nd ed. 2015 (both with B. Meyer) 

  • Die Kontrolle der schiedsgerichtlichen Zuständigkeit, Zürich/St. Gallen 2014 (Diss. Zürich 2014) 

  • Perjury in Arbitral Proceedings, Global Arbitration Review, 29. Juli 2011 (with T. Müller) 

  • Untaugliches Widerspruchsverfahren im Kartellrecht – Wenn Firmen auf offene Fragen nach dem Erlaubten keine Antwort erhalten, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Nr. 163, 17. Juli 2009 (with K. Neff) 

  • Technology and Latest Developments in Arbitration, Crypto Arbitration, Moldova Arbitration Days, Chisinau, Moldova, 7 May 2024  

  • Striving for "Perfect" Arbitration Legislation, Cambridge Arbitration Day, Cambridge, UK, 20 April 2024 

  • Disputes in Uncertain Times, DIS40 Zurich, Genf, 30 November 2022 

  • Diversity in Arbitration, Belgrade Arbitration Conference 2022, Belgrade, 1 April 2022 

  • Is Joinder in Arbitration Up to the Challenge, ICC YAF & YAAP, Vienna/online, 27 March 2021 

  • Utjecaj pandemije Covid-19 na arbitražni postupak – izazovi, iskustva i (tehnološka) rješenja – Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arbitral procedure – challenges, experience, and (technological) solutions, Young Croatian Arbitration Practitioners (YCAP)/Under 40 Section of the Serbian Arbitraiton Association, online, 8 May 2020 

  • Dos and Dont's of Cross-Examination, Cross-Examination Workshop, ASA Below 40/Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution/Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Genf, 28 February 2019 

  • Structuring Dispute Resolution Clauses in Investment Projects: Dos and Don’t's, Sarajevo Arbitration Days, Sarajevo, 24 October 2018 

  • The Brush-up of Chapter 12 of the Swiss Private International Law Act, Belgrade Arbitration Conference 2018, Belgrade, March 2018 

  • The Arbitrator's Duty to Disclose Potential Conflicts, ICC Young Arbitrators' Forum, Zurich, 8 December 2017 

  • Determining the Arbitral Procedure, ASA Below 40, Genf, June 2016 

  • The Arbitrator as Settlement Facilitator, Guest Lecture in Course "Advocacy in International Arbitration", Yale Law School, New Haven (CT), April 2016 

  • Jurisdiction and Choice of Law, Guest Lecture in Course "Advocacy in International Arbitration", Yale Law School, New Haven (CT), February 2015 

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Mladen Stojiljkovic achieves recognition as a top litigator who is appreciated by clients as a ‘practitioner with great academic background and a pleasure to work with.

WHO'S WHO LEGAL

Mladen is [a] brilliant arbitration practitioner.

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Highly regarded for his top-tier counsel work.

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Expertise

International Arbitration

Commercial & Corporate Litigation

Insolvency Disputes & Asset Recovery