Christoph Isler

Civil Engineer, Attorney-at-Law
Partner

Contact

+41 43 268 8777 | christoph.isler@epartners.ch

Professional Career

Christoph Isler has been a member of our legal practice since 2002. He was originally a civil engineer and worked for eight years as a project leader on sites both in Switzerland and abroad. Christoph Isler completed his law degree in 2002 and was admitted to the Zurich bar in 2005.

Areas of Expertise

Christoph Isler has been advising clients in the machinery, electrical, HVAC and construction industry for the last 20 years. He drafts and negotiates contracts, enforces claims, and trains project managers in various areas of law. In addition, he litigates in the energy sector, in regulatory proceedings, mainly in the mobile telecommunication sector, and public procurement proceedings. Furthermore, he specialises in product safety in machinery construction and plant engineering.

Experience

During his career, Christoph Isler has, among others, carried out the following mandates:

• Assessment of a couple of hundered project contracts with contract values between CHF 500,000 and CHF 200 million.
• Negotiations of plant engineering contracts in Switzerland, the EU, North America, and China.
• Various litigation and arbitration proceedings in the machinery, electrical an construction sector.
• Advice and Litigation in the energy sector, with respect to mobile telecommunication antennas and public procurement.
• External counsel for various small and medium enterprises in the industry sector.
• Various trainings in claim management and product safety.

Languages

German, English and French

Memberships

Swiss bar association and Zurich bar association

Publications

epartners Focus

• e:4.22 Compensation for added value of planning benefits Published in: epartners Fokus
• e:3.19 Conformity and Compliance – Declarations with risks and side effects Published in: epartners Fokus
• e:3.17 Mechanical engineering and technical standards Published in: epartners Fokus
• e:3.16 Withdrawal from contracts Published in: epartners Fokus
• e:5.15 Disruptions during the execution of a project Published in: epartners Fokus
• e:3.15 General terms and conditions - efficient, but risky Published in: epartners Fokus
• e:1.15 Euro crisis - legal aspects Published in: epartners Fokus
• Warnings and instruction in machinery construction Published in: epartners Im Fokus
• Limitations of Liability in Civil Construction Contracts - a New Year's pledge for 2013 Published in: epartners Im Fokus
• Product Safety in Mechanical Engineering: the rules of the game between producer and authority Published in: epartners Newsletter
• Assembly and installation of plant parts - the purchaser has obligations, too Published in: epartners Newsletter
• Bank guarantees in plant construction projects - absolute security? Published in: epartners Newsletter
• The new Federal Act on Product Safety and its significance for the construction site inventory Published in: epartners Newsletter

Other publications

• The new law on product safety and its impact on maintenance, internal use and re-engineering of plants Published in: Wasser Energie Luft, Ausgabe 4-2012 vom 6. Dezember 2012
• The contract in plant engineering - a guideline for practitioners