Wirtschaftsstrafrecht

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1973; Dr. iur., 1978)
Additional studies at the University of Berlin
University of St Gallen, HSG (M.B.L., 1996)

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate and Commercial
• Real Estate (Teamleader)
• White Collar Crime (Teamleader)
• Civil Law Notaries

President of the Basel notary public association 1993-1998
Basel Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Swiss Notaries Association
Swiss Lawyers Association

Associate with New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell and with S.G. Archibald (Paris)
Lecturer on company law at the University of St Gallen and at the University of Basel
Member of the arbitration body of the authority for compliance with money laundering regulations established by the Swiss Bar Association

Member of the board of directors of several Swiss and foreign owned companies a.o. Sybron Group, Haecky Group, Rheinfinanz AG, Gilso AG, Füglistaller Group, Menderes AG, Puma Group Switzerland, IBO Development AG, Ficus AG, ARFA Röhrenwerke AG

President Democratic Party BS (1991-1996)

Klaus Neff heads the competition law practice team at VISCHER. His practice focuses on all aspects of Swiss and European competition law. Klaus regularly represents clients in antitrust related administrative and civil proceedings as well as in national and multinational merger control proceedings. He also advises on compliance and internal investigations, regulated markets and public procurement. He is also experienced in contract corporate law and mergers & acquisitions.

Universities of Zurich and Lausanne (lic. iur., 1994)
College of Europe, Bruges (LL.M., 1999)

• Antitrust and Competition (Teamleader)
• Real Estate
• Energy
• Media and Entertainment
• White Collar Crime

• Competition and Antitrust Law
• Corporate and Commercial
• Intellectual Property
• M&A
• Contract Law
• Administrative Law

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.

Court clerk
Research assistant to the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich in the areas of Antitrust and Commercial Law
Associate with a major law firm in Zurich

Christoph Niederer primarily advises companies and private individuals on international tax law and procedural and criminal tax law. His clients include several multinationals from various industrial sectors. He also has extensive experience in structuring company sales. In addition to his work as an attorney, Christoph lectures on a regular basis at the Academy of the Swiss Institute of Certified Accountants and Tax Consultants and for a number of years worked as a substitute judge at the Zurich District Court.

University of Zurich (lic. iur. 1998)
Swiss certified tax expert (2006)

• Aviation
• Private Clients
• Private Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Finance
• Employment Law
• Tax (Teamleader)
• White Collar Crime

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Swiss Institute of Certified Accountants and Tax Consultants
IFA, Swiss Association for tax law

Senior Manager with Deloitte Ltd., Zurich, FSI (Financial Services Industries and International Tax (October 2007 - August 2010)
Associate at VISCHER Ltd., Zurich (2007)
Associate, responsible for taxes at Blum & Partner, Zug (2005 - 2007)
Clerk at the tax court of appeal of the Canton of Zurich (2000 -  2005)
Auditor at the district court in Zurich (1998 - 1999)

Stefan Rechsteiner mainly advises on public and administrative law and public civil procedure. He specialises in advising companies that are active in regulated markets such as in the energy and pharmaceutical industry. He regularly represents companies before administrative courts and regulators.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1996; Dr. iur., 2000)

• Public Sector and Regulatory (Teamleader)
• Energy (Teamleader)
• White Collar Crime

• Public Procedure Law
• Constitutional Law
• Administrative Law
• Competition Law
• Energy Law

Swiss Association for Energy Economics

Research Assistant at the University of Basel
Senior Manager Legal Department of Ernst & Young Ltd in Zurich
Industry Leader Energy of Ernst & Young Ltd Switzerland

Nadia Tarolli Schmidt heads up the Basel office of VISCHER’s tax team. She advises companies and private individuals on all matters pertaining to Swiss tax law (including criminal tax law) – both in the national and international environment. She has over ten years’ experience in restructurings, relocations and succession planning.
The know how she gained in her previous work at the Swiss Bankers Association has proved invaluable in banking and finance issues to her clients. Clients particularly appreciate her experience in advising on US tax matters. As an in-depth understanding of tax law is fundamental to advising occupational pensions, Nadia also heads up the VISCHER Occupational pension funds team, which advises both pension funds and the insured.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1999)
Swiss certified tax expert (2008)

• Tax (Teamleader)
• Pension Funds (Teamleader)
• Private Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Finance
• Energy
• White Collar Crime
• Private Clients

• Social Insurance Law
• Location Planning
• Banking and Finance
• Tax-optimised Restructuring
• Capital Markets
• M&A
• Estate Planning

Basel Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Pro Iure
Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Svizzera (CCIS)
IFA (International Fiscal Association)
Swiss Institute of Certified Accountants and Tax Consultants

Secondment at Swiss Bankers Association
Secondment at an Italian company in the department strategy / tax
Legal secretary at the Tax Appeal Commissions of Canton Zurich
Legal internships at a law firm and court

Thomas Weibel advises and represents clients before state courts and arbitral tribunals. His practice focuses on complex national and transnational commercial disputes, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, injunctive relief, and white collar crime. Thomas publishes and lectures on a regular basis on national and international civil procedure law as well as Swiss inheritance law. He is editor in chief for civil procedure law for a periodical on Swiss case law.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1997; Dr. iur., 2001)
University of Kent at Canterbury (LL.M. in International Commercial Law, 2004)

• Aviation
• Private Clients
• Litigation, Arbitration
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• White Collar Crime

Basel Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Pro iure
Basel Lawyers Association
European Bar Association (DACH)
Swiss Lawyers Association

Internship STG-Coopers & Lybrand Ltd (now PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd) Legal Department, Basel (1997-1998)
Internship F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Corporate Law, Basel (1998)
Court clerk at the District Court of Liestal (1999)

Cappella Nova, Basel: Vorstandsmitglied
La Cetra Barockorchester, Basel: Vorstandsmitglied

University of Basel (lic. iur., 2005)

• Litigation, Arbitration
• White Collar Crime

• Litigation
• Arbitration
• Private International Law
• International Civil Litigation
• Corporate and Commercial
• White Collar Crime

Basel Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association

Attorney at law at a business law firm in Zurich (2009 - 2010)
Legal internship at the Civil Court of Basel-City (2007)
Legal internship at a business law firm in Zurich (2006 - 2007)
Academic junior assistant to Prof. Dr. iur. Mark Pieth (2003 - 2004) and Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Kurt Seelmann (2004 - 2005) at the division for criminal law of the Faculty of law of the University of Basel

Azra Dizdarevic-Hasic advises both companies and the public sector on energy law, government procurement law and general administrative law. She represents clients in proceedings before administrative authorities and administrative courts and in administrative criminal proceedings. In addition she practices in the areas of law relating to food products, product security and aviation.

University of St. Gallen, HSG (lic. iur., 2004; lic. oec., 2001)

• White Collar Crime
• Life Sciences, Pharma, Biotech
• Public Sector and Regulatory
• Energy
• Media and Entertainment
• Information and Communication Technology
• Aviation

• Technology Law
• Administrative Law
• Public International Law
• Competition Law
• White Collar Crime

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association

Assistant at the University of St. Gallen in the field of constitutional and administrative law (especially economic constitutional and economic administrative law)
Internship at the District Court of Meilen
Internship at the Coordination Unit EEA, Vaduz

Jana Essebier specialises in banking and finance law. She regularly advises Swiss and foreign financial market participants on regulatory law and insolvency and restructuring. In addition, she advises both financial market participants and investors on derivatives, structured products and other financial instruments. Her experience working in-house at a large international bank has proven invaluable to her clients.

Universities of Potsdam and Geneva
First Bar Exam in Brandenburg (2000)
University of Hamburg (Dr. iur., 2004)
Second Bar Exam in Hamburg (2005)

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Finance
• Banking and Finance
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• White Collar Crime

• Banking and Finance
• Stock Exchange Law
• Compliance
• Financing and Funding
• International Tax Planning
• Capital Markets
• Collective Investment Schemes
• Bankruptcy Law
• Public Economic Law
• Private Equity
• Comparative Law
• Regulatory
• Restructuring and Reorganisation
• Asset Management
• Insurance Law

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Association of German and Swiss Lawyers (DSJV)
Hanseatic Bar Association Hamburg
European Lawyers Association DACH

Secondment with UBS Investment Bank London in the derivatives, structured products and structured funds department.
Law clerk with White & Case LLP, Hamburg, and Gide Loyrette Nouel, Paris
Notary public clerk in Hamburg
Court clerk
Lecturer at the Institute for Comparative Law of the University of Paris II
Research assistant to the Law Faculty of the University of Potsdam (in private international law) and to the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law, Hamburg

Diana Imbach Haumüller specialises in banking and finance, compliance and the prevention of white collar crime (in particular money laundering) as well as corporate and contract law. In her university dissertation Diana Imbach Haumüller focused on whistle blowing in Switzerland and internationally, specifically in connection with internal control systems. She advises her clients on implementing appropriate procedures and policies. During her LL.M. studies at the University of Sidney, Australia and at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, she gained international experience and was employed for several months by a leading commercial law firm in Sydney.

University of Basel (lic. iur. 2003)
University of Sydney (LL.M. 2010)
University of Zurich (Dr. iur. 2011)

• Banking and Finance
• Corporate and Commercial
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Employment Law
• White Collar Crime
• Real Estate

• Banking and Finance
• Capital Markets
• Compliance
• White Collar Crime
• Corporate and Commercial
• Labour Law
• Corporate Governance

Swiss Bar Association
Basel Bar Association
Pro Jure

Legal internship at the Civil Court of Basel-City
Legal internship in law firms in Basel and Zurich
Foreign Legal Associate with Freehills in Sydney, Australia

Adrien Jaccottet was admitted in December 2010 as attorney at law after completing his studies at the University of Basel (2003-2008) and legal internships at the civil and criminal courts, and also at VISCHER. Since January 2011 he has been working as an attorney at VISCHER where he specialises in litigation. Adrien represents his clients before national and arbitration courts, who benefit from his command of 6 languages (German, French, Catalan, Spanish, Italian and English).

University of Basel (lic. iur., 2008)

• Litigation, Arbitration
• White Collar Crime

• Litigation
• Arbitration
• International Civil Litigation
• Debt Enforcement Law
• Arrest and Attachment

Basel Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association

Legal Internship at the Civil Court of Basel-Stadt (2008)
Legal Internship at the Criminal Court of Basel-Stadt (2008-2009)
Legal Internship at VISCHER (2009)

Claudia Keller is primarily practises in the areas intellectual property law (in particular trademark and copyright law) and media and communication law. She also advises media companies and companies in the advertising business on the legal requirements for new media and digital forms of advertising, including on the relevant data information protection requirements in this area. Claudia also assists companies in other fields with media, advertising and intellectual property law issues. Claudia’s interdisciplinary education in brand management and social media management has proven invaluable to her clients.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 2001)
University of California, Hastings College of the Law (LL.M., 2004)
CAS Brand Management University of Lucerne (2007)
Social Media Manager (SOMEXCLOUD, 2011)

• Intellectual Property
• Energy
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Public Sector and Regulatory
• Media and Entertainment
• White Collar Crime
• Information and Communication Technology

• Intellectual Property
• Trademarks
• Law of Personality Rights
• Regulatory
• Unfair Competition
• Contract Law
• Competition Law
• Data Protection
• Information Law
• Communication Law
• Online Law
• Advertising Law

INGRES
INTA
Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association

Legal assistant at the Copyright Department of the Swiss Intellectual Property Institute
Internship with VISCHER, Attorneys at Law, Zurich
Internship with the Swiss Competition Commission
Internship with the Swiss Intellectual Property Institute

Felix Kesselring primarily practises in health, pharmaceutical and life sciences law. He advises Swiss and international companies on research, permits, drug registrations, advertising and marketing, data protection and insurance compensation. He regularly represents companies in proceedings before administrative authorities and courts. Felix is also active in advising and representing companies in other regulated markets (including the energy and food products market), in administrative criminal proceedings and in matters involving European law.

Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg (2004/2005)
Universität Zürich (lic. iur., 2006)

• Life Sciences, Pharma, Biotech
• Real Estate
• Public Sector and Regulatory
• Energy
• Health
• White Collar Crime

• Biotechnology Law
• Public Procedure Law
• Regulatory
• Administrative Law
• Technology Law
• Constitutional Law
• Public Economic Law
• Data Protection
• Advertising Law
• Social Insurance Law
• Competition Law
• Unfair Competition
• Intellectual Property
• Patent Law
• Regulation of chemicals

Swiss Association of Jurists
Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association

Legal assistant to a Member of the European Parliament, Strasbourg
Legal internship with international corporate law firm in Zurich
Examinations expert for the Swiss Association of Property Regulators (SVIT)

Thomas Krizaj specialises in mergers & acquisitions, private equity and corporate and commercial law. He advises clients from a wide range of sectors, who benefit from his broad practical experience in restructuring and insolvency. His expertise includes supply, distribution and agency agreements and their enforcement. Thomas Krizaj is also a member of the team specialising in commercial criminal law and regularly represents injured parties in white collar crime criminal investigation proceedings.

University of Zurich (lic. iur., 1996)
University of Exeter, U.K. (LL.M., 2000)

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Finance
• Corporate and Commercial
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• White Collar Crime

• M&A
• Corporate and Commercial
• Stock Exchange Law
• Bankruptcy Law
• White Collar Crime

Swiss Bar Association
Zurich Bar Association

Law Clerk with a medium size Zurich law firm
Court Clerk (Zurich District Court)
Associate with a medium size international Zurich law firm

Yvonne Pieles mainly practices in the areas of litigation and dispute resolution. She represents and advises companies and individuals before state courts and in administrative proceedings. Yvonne Pieles is mainly focusing on the practice areas white collar crimes, contract law and complex commercial litigation. She publishes and speaks regularly on legal topics in the areas of her core competences.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 2004)
University of Freiburg i. Br. (Eucor, 2003)

• Employment Law
• Real Estate
• Litigation, Arbitration
• White Collar Crime

• Inheritance Law
• Private International Law
• Contract Law
• White Collar Crime

Basel Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association

Legal internship at the administrative court of the canton of Aargau (2005)
Legal internship at the district exchange of Baden (2006)
Legal internship at a law firm in Liestal (2006)
Legal associate at a law firm in Liestal (2007-2008)
Lawyer at a law firm in Liestal (2008)