Mr Daniel Tunik > Lenz & Staehelin > Geneva, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
Lenz & Staehelin Offices
ROUTE DE CHÊNE 30
1211 GENEVA 6
Switzerland
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Mr Daniel Tunik
Work Department
Litigation and Arbitration, General Civil Litigation, Employment Law, Bankruptcy and Debt Collection, White Collar Criminal Litigation, Enforcement of Foreign Judgements and Awards, International Legal Assistance in Civil, Criminal and Administrative Matters, IP Litigation, Investigations
Position
Partner, Head of Litigation
Career
Admission to New York Bar (1992), Admission to Geneva Bar (1994), Associate at Lenz & Staehelin (1995), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (2001)
Languages
French, English, Spanish, German
Memberships
Geneva Bar Association (OdA), Swiss Lawyers Federation (FSA, Member of the Committee of the Anti-Money Laundering Self Regulated Organisation)
Education
University of Geneva (lic. iur. 1990), Geneva Graduate Institute for International Studies (Diploma of Higher Studies 1991), Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. 1992)
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Lenz & Staehelin boasts significant expertise in complex national and cross-border corporate and debt restructurings. The department is highly active in distressed M&A deals, as well as both enforcement of and challenges to security in insolvency scenarios. Tanja Luginbühl and Roman Graf co-lead the department. Luginbühl has significant experience representing companies in financial distress, in addition to banks and creditors. Graf, who made partner in 2022, focuses on distressed M&A, and has a practice which includes both in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Litigators Dominique Müller and Daniel Tunik are also key names within the department.
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation
(Leading individuals)The ‘large, very experienced and first-class‘ team at Lenz & Staehelin has notable strength in banking and financial litigation, corporate disputes, private client matters, employment issues and contentious real estate work. The practice acts in key economic sectors, including the construction and trusts and estates spaces, and has expertise in money laundering and white-collar crime issues. Daniel Tunik handles all forms of commercial disputes and leads the team in Geneva. Harold Frey heads up the litigation and arbitration practice in Zurich, and acts for a range of multinational companies and financial institutions. Martin Burkhardt has a diverse commercial litigation practice, which includes disputes relating to complex family fortunes, while Dominique Müller leads the investigations practice and has expertise in matters related to white-collar crime. Hikmat Maleh and Xavier Favre-Bulle are key names in Geneva.
Switzerland > Employment
Leadership of the employment team at Lenz & Staehelin is divided between Dominique Müller and Matthias Oertle in Zurich, and Daniel Tunik and Sara Rousselle-Ruffieux in Geneva. Covering all aspects of employment law, the ‘creative’ and ‘talented’ team handles both contentious and non-contentious labour matters for employers and senior employees, including issues such as employment litigation, cross-border employee transfers, discrimination and investigations, social security, employment agreements, and non-compete covenants, among others. Client sectors include education, hospitality, transport, and energy. Former partner Rayan Houdrouge moved to Walder Wyss Ltd. in mid-2022.
Lawyer Rankings
- Dispute resolution: litigation Switzerland
- Employment Switzerland
- Leading individuals Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation
- Insolvency and corporate recovery Switzerland
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Geneva
- Banking and finance: Zurich
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Employment
- Intellectual property
- Leading firms: French-speaking Switzerland
- Leading firms: German-speaking Switzerland
- Private client
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
- Tax