Bernard Lachenal > MLL Legal > Geneva, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
MLL Legal Offices
65 rue du Rhône
PO Box 3199
1211 Geneva 3
Switzerland
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Bernard Lachenal
Work Department
Arbitration and Litigation | Private Banking | Private Clients
Position
Bernard Lachenal heads MLL’s arbitration and litigation practice in Geneva. He is specializes in Swiss and international dispute resolution in relation to private banking and private clients.
He acts on behalf of private and institutional clients before state courts and arbitration panels in complex proceedings with international ramifications.
Career
Partner with MLL (since 1982), Associate with the Firm (1977–1982), Associate with Palmer & Dodge in Boston, Massachusetts (1976), Admitted to the bar in Switzerland (1975)
Languages
French, English, German
Memberships
Founding member of the Geneva Branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), Member of various other national and international associations
Education
UC Berkeley School of Law, Master of Laws (1977), University of Geneva, lic. iur. (1972)
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva
MLL Legal provides a wide range of legal services to financial institutions, funds, investors, and private individuals from regulatory advice, such as license requests, to complex financing transactions, including asset lending and acquisition financing. The team is headed by Dmitry A Pentsov, whose practice covers syndicated loans, pre-export financing, and other similar transactions, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe, and Mona Stephenson, who advises Swiss and international companies, banks and corporations on national and international debt financing, private equity, corporate governance and commercial contracts. Jean-Luc Herbez, Bernard Lachenal, and Alain Le Fort are further key contacts.
Lawyer Rankings
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Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Geneva
- Banking and finance: Zurich
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Employment
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Private client
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Public law
- Sports law
- Tax
- Transport
- Competition
- Dispute resolution: arbitration