Anton Baier

Year of birth

1946

Nationality

  • Austrian

Languages

  • English
  • German

Specializations

  • commercial agreements in general
  • company law
  • distribution and franchise agreements
  • energy law
  • finance, banking
  • infrastructural projects
  • labor law, management contracts
  • mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
  • real estate, construction
  • transport

Professional certification

attorney

Professional career

  • Member of the Board of the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Vienna;
  • Member of the Commission on Arbitration of the ICC;
  • Former President of the Austrian Arbitration Association;
  • LCIA.

Arbitration experience

Dr. Baier has more than 25 years experience in arbitration proceedings and has represented national and international clients before arbitral tribunals under various jurisdictions and rules, including the ICC Rules, Vienna Rules and UNICITRAL Arbitration Rules. Now, he mainly acts as arbitrator in arbitration proceedings. Such disputes here dealt with power stations in Greece and West Africa, steel production in Syria, road and tunnel project in Georgia bases on an agreement of FIDIC Conditions of Contract, rehabilitation and reconstruction of motorway in Albania based also on FIDIC Conditions, light bulb factory in Czech Republic, car suppliers industry in Spain and other commercial matters.

Membership in organizations

  • IBA
  • DIS
  • ASA

Publications

  1. „The Enforcementof Awards in Austria” (1988, 3rd edition 1997)
  2. „Dispute Resolution Methods” (1994); „Using Modern Technology in Arbitration” (Online Arbitration, 2000)
  3. „International Arbitration” (A country by country look at Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods Co-Authorship for Austria
  4. Aspatore Books, USA, 2005)
  5. „Handbuch Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht” (Co-Authorship for ICC Rules, Vienna Rules and Austrian Arbitration Act, Verlag Dr OttoSchmidt-Köln, 2005)
  6. „Arbitration World-European Lawyer (Co-Authorship, 2nd edition, 2006)