Christian Dorda

Senior Legal Expert, Arbitrator

Christian Dorda
Christian Dorda

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Arbitration

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Christian Dorda is the founding partner of DORDA. 

He is currently an arbitrator, in particular in disputes concerning joint ventures, distribution and construction. He is a recurring chairman of the arbitral tribunal or sole arbitrator in (inter)national commercial disputes.

Following his membership of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, he is now Deputy Chairman of ICC Austria. He is a member of the Austrian and Swiss Arbitration Associations and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Chamber of Commerce in Austria. He is also a board member and legal advisor of the French-Austrian Chamber of Commerce.

 

Education:

University of Vienna, Dr iur 1971

Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit Deutschland – Österreich – Schweiz / Verfahrensablauf, 3. Auflage, Seiten 461 bis 492
Handbuch Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit und ADR
Vienna Perspective – 2014

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Chambers Europe, Arbitrators: Senior Statespeople - 2025
Chambers Europe, Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators, Senior Statespeople - 2024
Chambers Europe, Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators, Senior Statesman - 2023
Chambers Europe, Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators - 2022
Chambers Europe, Lifetime Achievement Award - 2016
Chambers Global, Arbitrators: Senior Statespeople - 2025
Chambers Global, Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators - 2023
IFLR1000, M&A, Expert Consultant - 2022
Legal 500, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Mediation, Recommended - 2023

  • Member of the Board (Deputy Chairman) Agenda Austria, Association for Scientific Dialogue and Social Renewal 

  • Chairman of the Board of Trustees American Chamber of Commerce in Austria 

  • Member of the Board ("Syndikus") French-Austrian Chamber of Commerce - Chambre de Commerce Franco-Autrichienne

  • Guest lecturer on arbitration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

  • Consul General of the Principality of Monaco in Austria

  • Honorary President of the Museum Friends Association Belvedere

  • Ceremonial renewal of the doctorate in law, University of Vienna, May 2022

  • Lifetime Achievement Award from Chambers, the renowned legal directory, May 2016

  • Chairman of the M&A Commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats (until 2007)

German (mother tongue)
English
French