Dr iur Frédéric Rochat > Kellerhals Carrard > Lausanne, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile

Dr iur Frédéric Rochat

+41 58 200 33 00 frederic.rochat@kellerhals-carrard.ch

Work Department

• Advises companies in sale/acquisition or restructuring processes
• Sets up company financing, including for start-up companies
• Provides practical legal advice to corporate clients in respect of contract and company law matters
• FINMA-appointed liquidator for Banque Privée Espirito Santo SA in liquidation

Position

Dr. iur., LL.M., Attorney at Law, Partner

Career

• since 2007: Partner at the law firm Kellerhals Carrard
• 2006-2007: Associate attorney in the mergers and acquisitions and capital markets departments of the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in London
• 2004-2005: Associate attorney in the mergers and acquisitions and capital markets departments of the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York
• 2000-2003: Trainee attorney, then associate attorney at a law firm specialising in business law in Lausanne
• 1997-2000: Assistant to Prof. J.-M. Rapp at the Business Law Centre (CEDIDAC) at the Law Faculty of the University of Lausanne

Languages

• French
• German
• English

Memberships

• Vaud Bar Association (OAV)
• Swiss Bar Federation (FSA)
• Jeune Barreau vaudois
• Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
• Registered in the Cantonal Attorneys’ Register (Vaud)

Education

• 2005: Admitted to the bar of New York
• 2002: Admitted to the bar of Canton of Vaud
• 2004: LL.M., Columbia University School of Law, James Kent Scholar
• 2002: Dr. iur., University of Lausanne, Edouard Fleuret Foundation award and Walther-Hug award
• 1996: lic. iur., Universities of Lausanne and Bern, Faculty award