Dr iur Christoph Zimmerli > Kellerhals Carrard > Berne, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile

Dr iur Christoph Zimmerli

+41 58 200 35 00 [email protected]

Work Department

• Corporate and Commercial Law (Company Law, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social 
• Responsibility, Remuneration, Board Liability) 
• Mergers & Aquisitions (transactions, restructuring, succession planning) 
• Restructuring and reorganisation 
• Employment Law (including Collective Labour law, labour permits (expatriates), pension plans) 
• Health Law and Life Sciences 
• Information and Technology Law

Position

Dr. iur., LL.M., Attorney at Law, Partner
Certified Specialist SBA Employment Law

Career

• since 2014: Partner of Kellerhals Carrard
• 2003-2014: Associate/Partner/Member with the management board of Wenger Plattner attorneys-at-law, Basel Zurich Berne Geneva
• 2001-2003: Associate with Pestalozzi Attorneys at law Ltd., Zurich Geneva
• 1996-1998: Internship with two district courts (Basel and Berne) an a Basel based law firm

Languages

• German
• English
• French

Memberships

• International Bar Association (IBA)
• Swiss Bar Association (SAV)
• Swiss Jurist Association (SJV)
• Bernese Bar Association (BAV), practice groups corporate M&A and employment law
• Bernese Jurist Assocation (BJV, president)
• German-Swiss Jurist Association (DSJV)
• Pro Jure, alumni organisation of the law faculty of the University of Basel
• HR Bern, association for HR

Education

• 2017: CAS Employment Law
• 2002: Dissertation “Set-off in Court Proceedings and in Arbitration”, a study in international comparative law, University of Basel
• 2001: LL.M. in International and European Law (with distinction, 3rd rank), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Institute of European Studies (IES)
• 1998: Bar Exam, High Court of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft
• 1995: lic. iur., University of Basel