Irene Welser

Practice Areas

Litigation & Arbitration

Corporate

Public Law & European Law

Real Estate & Construction

IP & Unfair Competition

Private Clients & Trusts

Career

Irene Welser is an equity partner with CERHA HEMPEL and heads the Contentions Business Department. She has practiced law for more than 25 years and has acted as an arbitrator and as counsel in more than 60 international and national arbitrations under the ICC, Vienna and UNCITRAL Rules. As of 2015, she became a board member of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), a position that she retains.

Irene is a passionate litigator and arbitrator and advises domestic and international clients on commercial and civil law. Irene Welser was admitted to the Vienna Bar in 1992, holds a doctorate degree and in 2003 become the youngest Honorary Professor at the University of Vienna. Furthermore, Irene is the Global Chair Emeritus of the Litigation Arbitration Dispute Resolution Section of Lex Mundi.

Professional Memberships

Vienna Bar Association

International Bar Association

Austrian Arbitration Association

ASA - Association Suisse de l‘Arbitrage

Arbitral Women

LCIA - The London Court of International Arbitration

CELA - Chinese European Legal Association

Wiener Advokatengesellschaft UNION

Publications

Warranties in contracts on works and services (author); Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration 2007-2021 (co-editor and author); some 100 further publications.

Personal

University of Vienna (Mag.iur. 1986, Dr.iur. 1988); Hon.-Prof. 2003

Languages Spoken

German

English

French

Italian