Mr Vincent Carron, LL.M. > Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd > Geneva, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd
5bis, rue des Alpes
P.O. Box 2088
1211 Geneva 1
Switzerland

Work Department

Geneva / Employment

Position

Vincent Carron is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Geneva office, where he heads the employment law group.

Experience:

  • Extensive experience representing clients before the labor courts and advising them on all employment law matters (including review of contracts, employee handbooks, termination agreements, unilateral and collective dismissals, business transfers and assistance in M&A transactions, structure of severance payments, aspects of international employee transfers, international social security coordination, lease of services, restructuring of remuneration and bonus schemes, work schedule reductions, recording of working time, employer’s liability, due diligences)
  • Advising and representing clients in matters related to pension funds, covering both litigation and corporate aspects
  • Acts as an expert in Swiss labour law before international tribunals courts

Career

2012 – Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer
2004 – Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer
2002 – Trainee Lawyer at Schellenberg Wittmer
2001 – Teaching and research assistant at University of Fribourg
1999 – Research assistant on a Swiss National Science Foundation Project on Public Procurement Remedies

Languages

  • English
  • French

Memberships

  • Member of the European Employment Law Association
  • Former President of the West Switzerland Association of Employment Law Specialists
  • Vincent Carron is part of the Exam Committee in charge of the Geneva labour court judges’ oral exams, and has been teaching them some aspects of Swiss employment law

Education

2008 – Certified Specialist SBA Employment Law
2007 – Bar Admission in New York
2006 – LL.M., New York University
2004 – Bar Admission in Switzerland
1998 – lic. iur., University of Fribourg

Lawyer Rankings

Switzerland > Employment

(Leading partners)

Vincent CarronSchellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd’s employment team is renowned for advising clients across several labour law issues, as well as on employment matters relating to high-end transactions and major disputes. It has a particularly strong reputation in the employment litigation arena. Notable individual Vincent Carron has extensive experience of representing clients before the labour courts and advising them on all employment law matters including the drafting and reviewing of employment documentation. Michael Hess advises domestic and foreign clients on employment law matters such as international employee transfers.