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Elena Rodriguez

Associate, Dispute Resolution, Investigations & Enforcement, White Collar Crime, Commercial, Sports

Profile
Experience

Elena Rodriguez is an associate in Niederer Kraft Frey’s Dispute Resolution team. Her practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and arbitration proceedings. She also advises clients on contract, company, employment and commercial law.

Experience

Recent matters in which Elena acted include:

Representing the world’s largest wealth management bank in highly complex cross-border proceedings relating to the repatriation of a fortune, involving sophisticated questions and solutions on mutual and judicial assistance
Representing Swiss entities involved in governmental investigations with regard to cross-border evidence collection and secrecy laws in Switzerland
Advising a client on public broadcasting and sponsorship rights in worldwide sports events
Advising a publicly listed technology company on a controversial and important maintenance agreement for custom development, framework agreements and the implications of an arbitration clause in an international context
Representing a Swiss manufacturer of jewelry and watches in a dispute with a large shareholder regarding the controversial calling of a general meeting, fiduciary duties of the Board of Directors and other critical company law matters

Year	Position
2016	Position Admitted to the Bar, Rechtsanwältin
2011	Position Maastricht University, the Netherlands, LL.M., with distinction
2011	Position University of Zurich, Master of Law, magna cum laude, distinguished with the Orelli-Award

Zurich, Swiss and International Bar Associations (ZAV, SAV, IBA)
International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA)
Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
International Chamber of Commerce's Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF)
Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration (Young ICCA)

Year	Position
2019	Position Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2018	Position Foreign Associate, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LL.P., Washington, D.C.
2016	Position Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2013	Position Law clerk with the District Court of Meilen, Canton of Zürich
2011	Position Junior Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2009	Position Internship at the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Zurich

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