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Kellerhals Carrard Offices

RAEMISTRASSE 5
8024 ZURICH
Switzerland
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lic iur Peter Schatz

Work Department
- Corporate
- Litigation, arbitration, insolvency
- Private clients
- Employment law
- Commercial and corporate disputes
- Professional negligence claims
- Bankruptcy issues
- Art law
- Contentious trusts and estate disputes
- Fraud cases
- Asset tracing and product liability claims
Position
lic. iur., LL.M., Attorney at Law, Partner
Career
- 2009: Founding Partner, Kellerhals Carrard (Kellerhals Attorneys at Law back then)
- 2000-2009: Partner, Zurich law firms
- 1996-2000: Associate, Zurich law firm
- 1995-1996: Associate, Californian law firm
- 1990-1994: Law Clerk, Commercial Court in Zurich
- 1989-1990: Law Clerk, District Court of Zurich
- 1992: Admitted to the Bar
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
Zurich and Swiss Bar Associations (ZAV and SAV)
Education
- 1994-1995: LL.M., McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, Kalifornien
- 1989: lic. iur., University of Zürich
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation
Thanks to its large team of ‘competent and responsive lawyers’, Kellerhals Carrard is highly active in a wide range of sectors, with particular expertise in the life sciences, insurance, banking, sports, real estate and construction industries. The firm has a broad local network with offices in all the major economic centres in Switzerland; Lukas Bopp leads in Basel, Nicolas Gillard heads up the Lausanne team, the Berne group is led by Michael Daphinoff, Ivan Paparelli leads in Lugano, and the Zurich and Geneva practices are led by Peter Schatz and Annemarie Streuli respectively.
Switzerland > Private client
Kellerhals Carrard acts for a variety of private clients, including Swiss-domiciled ultra-high-net-worth individuals and entrepreneurs, as well as private Swiss banks and family offices. Specialisms of the unit are inheritance disputes, matrimonial property law, the structuring of trusts and family offices as well as tax and estate planning. The key practitioners are the ‘incredibly impressive‘ Annette Spycher, ‘top expert‘ Ingrid Iselin, Thomas Hentz, Nicolas Gillard, Giovanni Stucchi and Peter Schatz.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Employment
- Fintech
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Leading firms: Italian-speaking Switzerland
- Public law
- Sports law
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets
- Data privacy and data protection
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance
- Leading firms: German-speaking Switzerland
- Regulatory, compliance and investigations
- Banking and finance: Zurich
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Intellectual property
- Leading firms: French-speaking Switzerland
- Real estate and construction
- TMT
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Private client