Tanja Planinic | Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law

Tanja Planinic

Partner
Attorney at law, LL.M. (Cantab)

Feldeggstrasse 4
8008 Zurich
Switzerland
T +41 44 217 92 69
tanja.planinic@pestalozzilaw.com

vCard CV (pdf) Publications list (pdf)

She is a strategic thinker with a sharp legal mind.

Who's Who Legal, 2023

Tanja is intelligent, practical, and has an extremely sharp eye for seeing the core issue in dispute that must be resolved.

Who's Who Legal, 2023

Tanja Planinic is widely esteemed as "an experienced practitioner" who "excels at representing clients in international arbitrations.

Who's Who Legal, 2021

Tanja Planinic's practice includes all aspects of domestic and international commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in numerous ad hoc and institutional arbitrations under various procedural and substantive laws. She has particular experience with disputes relating to the international sale of goods, commodity sales and trading, joint ventures and distributorships as well as disputes in the energy, construction and pharma sectors.

Career

2008
  • Partner at Pestalozzi
2007
  • Associate, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, London
2002
  • Associate at Pestalozzi
2001
  • Staff Attorney, Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts
  • University of Cambridge: Master of Laws, LL.M. (FCO British Chevening Scholar)
1999
  • Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of the Canton of Berne
  • Bar Admission: Switzerland

Languages

Bosnian, Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Serbian

Expertise & Industries

Litigation & Arbitration

Membership

  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV)
  • Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
  • Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
  • ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR
  • London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)

Deals and Cases

Pestalozzi successfully represented a state gas company in a high-value ICC gas arbitration dispute

12.04.2021

Pestalozzi successfully represented a state gas company in a high-value ICC gas arbitration dispute

Publications

Arbitrability – A Swiss Perspective

Arbitrability – A Swiss Perspective

By Tanja Planinic, Florian Mohs: Panelist at the 70th Anniversary Conference of the Permanent Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia, October 2017
Multi-Party Constellations in Construction Disputes

Multi-Party Constellations in Construction Disputes

By Tanja Planinic: Panelist at ICC YAF on Infrastructure and Construction Disputes in CEE: Opportunities and Challenges, Vienna, Austria, June 2016
Document Production: Some Practical Issues

Document Production: Some Practical Issues

By Tanja Planinic: Panelist at VIII Belgrade Arbitration Conference, Belgrade, March 2016
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