Prof Dr iur Henry M. Peter > Kellerhals Carrard > Lugano, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile

Prof Dr iur Henry M. Peter

+41 58 200 31 00 henry.peter@kellerhals-carrard.ch

Work Department

• Commercial law
• M&A
• Sports law
• Arbitration

Position

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

Career

• as of September 2017: Partner, Kellerhals Carrard Lugano SA, Lugano
• 1988-2017: Partner, PSMLaw SA, Lugano
• from September 2006: Head of the Department of Commercial Law, Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva
• 1998-2012: Director of the Master in Business Law (MBL) programme of the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne
• from October 1988: Lecturer, Associate Professor and Full Professor (from 1 October 2004) on the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva
• 1984-1988: Associate, law and notarial office of Dr. Carlo Sganzini, Lugano

Languages

• French
• Italian
• English
• German

Memberships

• Bar Association of the Canton of Ticino (OATi)
• Swiss Bar Association
• Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA); founder and head of the Italian Switzerland section (GASI)

Education

• 1988: Doctoral degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva
• 1983-1984: Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law of the University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
• 1983: Advanced Studies Diploma in commercial law, University of Geneva
• 1981: Admission to the Bar (first rank) of the Canton of Geneva
• 1979: lic. iur., University of Geneva