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Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd Offices
5bis, rue des Alpes
P.O. Box 2088
1211 Geneva 1
Switzerland
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Prof Dr Olivier Hari
Work Department
Geneva / Corporate and Commercial / Banking and Finance / Restructuring and Insolvency / Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Venture Capital / Litigation
Position
Olivier Hari is of Counsel in our Corporate & Commercial, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Restructuring & Insolvency groups. He specializes in general corporate law, transactional matters, finance transactions and private fundraising, companies restructuring, distressed refinancing, and complex national and cross-border insolvency and restructuring proceedings, and related litigation proceedings.
Experience:
- Advised a secured creditor (enforcement of a pledge with cross-border aspects)
- Swiss counsel in the framework of a financial reorganization of a group of companies
- Advised creditors of Alevo (restructuring and distressed M&A)
- Advised a distressed watch making company (restructuring and sale)
- Advised creditors in bankruptcy proceedings (Ethical Coffee Company, Privatair etc.)
- Advised minority shareholders (post-closing litigation)
- FINMA appointed liquidator of Zenith Vie SA, Compagnie d’assurance sur la Vie
- Court-appointed trustee of several distressed businesses
Career
Languages
- English
- French
- German
- Italian (basic knowledge)
Memberships
- Autor, co-author and editor of many publications in the fields of corporate and commercial law, insolvency law and financial markets law
- Chairman of the Geneva Bar forum for insolvency law
- Member of several practitioners’ association (Geneva Bar Association, Swiss Bar Association, ISADE – Institut Suisse des Administrateurs, Swiss Board Institute, AIJA, SchKG-Vereinigung, and INSOL Europe)
Education
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Insolvency and corporate recovery
(Leading individuals)Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd provides the full spectrum of restructuring and insolvency matters including companies’ restructuring, loan-to-own transactions, distressed M&A, distressed refinancing, and advising board members on their duties, as well as liability claims. The team is headed by Olivier Hari, Tarek Houdrouge, and Urs Hoffmann-Nowotny. Hari specialises in complex national and cross-border insolvency and restructuring proceedings and related litigation proceedings, whilst Houdrouge, who co-heads the banking and finance team, has a strong focus on distressed situations. Hoffmann-Nowotny has a special focus on insolvency-related litigations, including actions to contest schedules of claims, claw-back actions, and the enforcement as well as defense of liability claims against directors and officers. Vincent Jeanneret, who is the former practice group head, has a wide range of expertise including distressed refinancing and M&A, corporate restructuring of listed and non-listed companies, filing of court-application for distressed businesses, litigation, and recognition of foreign orders. Cross-border insolvency expert Louis Burrus is a notable team member.
Lawyer Rankings
- Insolvency and corporate recovery Switzerland
- Leading individuals Switzerland > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Geneva
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- Dispute resolution: litigation
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- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
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