Dr iur Urs Feller > Prager Dreifuss AG > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
Prager Dreifuss AG Offices
MÜHLEBACHSTRASSE 6
8008 ZURICH
Switzerland
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Dr iur Urs Feller
Work Department
Dispute Resolution, Private Clients, White Collar Crimes & Investigations, Real Estate & Construction
Position
Partner
Career
Urs Feller is head of Prager Dreifuss’ Dispute Resolution team. This team acts for international and domestic clients in a variety of disputes before courts and administrative authorities in Switzerland as well as before international arbitration tribunals. Urs Feller has vast experience in all forms of dispute resolution, including mediation. He regularly advises clients on contractual and commercial disputes, in particular relating to banking, insurance, compliance as well as administrative and judicial assistance. Other areas of expertise include insolvency, restructuring and asset recovery.
He is a member of the executive committee of the International Bar Association’s litigation section and acted as Vice-chair of the committee. Urs is a member of STEP and regularly advises clients on trusts, foundations and inheritance matters including disputes in that area.
Chambers Europe and Global refer to him as “very responsive, extremely hard-working and easy to communicate with”, and also as “careful, accurate, creative”. He is praised for his “prompt and effective reaction” as well as being “co-operative and quick in grasping the essence of the case.” According to Chambers Europe (2020) commentators report that he is “thorough and pragmatic in his advice.”
Languages
German, English, French
Memberships
Zurich and Swiss Bar Association
International Bar Association
The Law Society (England and Wales)
British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce
Education
Bar of England and Wales (2002, not practising)
College of Law, London (2001)
Swiss bar (1999)
University of Zurich (Dr. iur., 1998)
Universities of Fribourg and Zurich (lic.iur., 1997)
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation
‘Excellent strategist’ Urs Feller helms the Prager Dreifuss AG
litigation team, which covers civil and commercial mandates, such as asset recovery and administrative assistance procedures. Feller’s expertise includes contractual and commercial issues, with a notably strong presence in the area of banking, insurance, sanctions and compliance. Daniel Hayek, Christian Casanova and Marcel Frey are other key names to note in the practice.