
Dr. iur. Patrick Middendorf
Attorney at law
Certified Specialist SBA Construction and Real Estate Law
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Patrick Middendorf is the founding partner of PMP Rechtsanwälte AG. He advises and litigates in contract law, particularly contractor agreements and mandate law. He has many years of experience in construction matters under private law, focusing on SIA standards and KBOB contracts.
Patrick Middendorf assists his clients in the planning and realization of large-scale construction and infrastructure projects (e.g., hospital buildings, administration buildings, museums, tunnel construction, plant engineering). He also acts as a mediator and arbitrator.
Patrick Middendorf studied at the Universities of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Amsterdam (Netherlands). From 1998 to 2001, he worked as an assistant to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Gauch at the Chair of Civil and Commercial Law and the Institute for Construction Law at the University of Fribourg.
After a study visit at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg in the fall of 2001, he obtained his doctorate in law in the spring of 2002 (“Nachwirkende Vertragspflichten”, diss. Freiburg 2002, summa cum laude). Patrick Middendorf was admitted to the Zurich Bar in February 2004 and qualified as a specialist attorney SBA Construction and Real Estate Law in March 2017.
In the summer semester of 2007, he was a lecturer at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) for extra-contractual liability law. From the beginning of 2007 until June 2015, he headed the office of the Zurich Bar Association. From 2013 to 2020, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Legal Education in Lucerne, which aims to provide training and further education for lawyers who work in industry, judiciary, and the legal profession.
In the summer of 2017, the SBA Board elected Patrick Middendorf to the SBA Construction and Real Estate Law Expert Commission. The commission’s task is to evaluate the candidates for admission to the SBA Construction and Real Estate Law Specialization Course and to conduct the expert discussions to award the title of specialist attorney. Since mid-2020, he has co-chaired the Expert Group for Construction Law of the Zurich Bar Association. The ZBA’s specialist groups are available to all members for in-depth study and brushing-up of knowledge. He is also an active lecturer in the CAS course “Bauvertrags- und Vergaberecht für Planungs- und Baufachleute, organized by the Institute for Swiss and International Construction Law at the University of Fribourg.
Since the beginning of 2024, Patrick Middendorf has served as a member of the Ethics Court of the Zurich Bar Association. As the association’s internal disciplinary court, the Ethics Court reviews and evaluates the members of the Zurich Bar Association in the light of attorneys’ rules of conduct.
Patrick Middendorf is registered with the Attorney registry of the Canton of Zurich. He is a member of the Zurich and Swiss Bar Associations, the Chamber of Specialist Attorneys SBA Construction and Real Estate Law, and the Zurich Lawyers’ Association.
Languages: German, French, and English
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