Helmut Ortner

Founding and Managing Partner at PARAGON Advocacy; focuses on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes both as counsel and arbitrator; admitted to the New York and the Austrian bar; studied economics and law in Innsbruck, Vienna, Harvard, and Yale; honorary professor of international business law and international dispute resolution at the Europainstitute (Saarbrücken, Germany); lecturer on private law, comparative law, and alternative dispute resolution at various universities, including the Universities of Vienna, Linz, and Innsbruck.

Selected Publications: Conflict of Law – Text and Materials (with T. Tiede and B. Koch), (5th ed. 2018); Contractual Performance and COVID-19 (with F. T. Schwarz and J. A. Trenor (eds.) (2020); Applicable Law in International Arbitration (with M. Kern and K. Plavec) (2020); The Rule of Law in International Commercial Arbitration (with M. Hackl), ZEuS 04/2024, 459; Pacta Sunt Servanda’s Soliloquy Amidst Sanctions (with V. Korom and M. Neumann), ZEuP 03/2005, 494; Concise Encyclopaedia of International Commercial Arbitration (with P. Peters) (ten entries in Franco Ferrari et al, eds.) (2025).