gbf Attorneys-at-law Ltd

Laurent Chassot

Laurent Chassot established and leads the firm's Geneva office. His practice is focused on aviation, transport and insurance law, cross-border litigation and debt enforcement. He has advised airlines, aircraft owners, insurers and financiers on a broad range of air law issues for more than a decade. Beside aviation, Laurent assists various trading and shipping clients, mostly in contentious matters.

Philip Chrystal

Philip Chrystal is Of-counsel at gbf Attorneys-at-law Ltd and specialises in aviation and space insurance and reinsurance law. He brings extensive in-house experience in reviewing coverage, the liability of aviation insureds together with the handling of both hull and liability claims across all categories of aviation lines of business in addition to insured satellite losses.

Lena Dolci’s main practice areas are liability and insurance law (including reinsurance and regulatory affairs) as well as transport and aviation law. She acts as both an advisor and a litigator before state courts and in arbitration proceedings.

Lars Gerspacher

Lars Gerspacher is a partner at gbf Attorneys-at-law Ltd and specialises in insurance and reinsurance law, and transport and trade law, with a particular focus on aviation and shipping. He often represents clients in international arbitration proceedings, and is always on hand to assist insurers and reinsurers in setting up their business in Switzerland and to advise them subsequently in their transactions.

Thomas Hua is a partner at gbf Attorneys-at-law Ltd and regularly advises clients on domestic and international transactions and other corporate and commercial matters.

Isabel Kölliker

Isabel Kölliker’s main practice areas are liability and insurance law (including reinsurance and regulatory affairs) as well as commercial law. She acts as both an advisor and a litigator before state courts and in arbitration proceedings.

Yolande Lagrange

Yolande Lagrange’s practice focuses on litigation and arbitration, and she regularly assists in matters relating to aviation and transport law. She also advises clients in commercial matters.

Riccardo Maisano

Riccardo Maissano’s main practice areas include liability and insurance law, data protection as well as commercial law. He regularly represents clients in court proceedings.

David Mösch’s legal practice focuses on in insurance supervisory law, insurance law, liability, corporate and commercial law, both giving advice and issuing notarial deeds.

Marco Novoselac

Marco Novoselac is a partner with gbf Attorneys-at-law. He specialises in Trade & Retail and Aviation & Aerospace. He has significant experience in company and commercial law, M&A, e-commerce, data protection, technology and competition law. Marco also has significant entrepreneurial experience in the technology and digital sector.

Christophe Platel

Christophe Platel's practice focuses primarily on aviation-related matters, with a particular emphasis on the negotiation and drafting of all contracts in the aviation sector. He draws on his expertise in aviation (and space) law to advise clients on all matters relating to these fields, whether under international, European or national law. More generally, Christophe is involved in all types of commercial matters involving the drafting of contracts and other documents. He also has extensive experience in employment and intellectual property law.

Vesna Polić is Of-counsel at gbf Attorneys-at-law Ltd and is specialised in Swiss transport law and in the international carriage of goods. She has particular experience in relation to the liability of carriers (sea, inland waterways, and road) for cargo damage and delay in delivery. She regularly advises on Swiss insurance law, in particular in relation to cargo insurance, as well as the insurance of carriers’ and freight forwarders’ liabilities to third parties.

Dominik Skrobala

Dominik Skrobala is a partner at gbf Attorneys-at-law Ltd and advises both domestic and foreign insurers on insurance and regulatory matters and has considerable experience in this area, namely regarding the licencing of business activities, portfolio transfers and restructurings. His practice also focuses on corporate law, IT, data protection and the posting of workers to Switzerland. Dominik is the top address in Switzerland for Polish companies and private persons.

Nando Stauffer von May

Nando Stauffer von May’s is a partner with gbf Attorneys-at-law Ltd and his practice focuses on corporate and trade law, transport law, insurance and reinsurance law, and inheritance and real estate law. He does a mix of non-contentious and contentious work, authenticating deeds, as well as giving advice and representing his clients in litigation.

Roger Thalmann’s main practice areas include liability and insurance law, transportation law (with a special interest in liability matters), and commercial and corporate law. Roger's practice involves advisory work, as well as representing his clients in proceedings before state courts and arbitral tribunals.

Clemens von Zedtwitz

Clemens von Zedtwitz is a Partner at gbf Attorneys-at-law Ltd specialising in insurance coverage litigation and arbitration. He focuses his practice on the resolution of large and complex claims from the London and international insurance market, and in the defence of claims against companies and their directors that are insured under all types of liability insurance policies. He also advises and represents insurance and reinsurance companies and brokers in their engagement with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA).

Philippe Wenker

Philippe Wenker is a partner with gbf Attorneys-at Law Ltd and advises airlines, business jet owners (corporations and HNWI), operators and suppliers (maintenance, cargo, catering, aircraft interior completion, etc.) to the aircraft and transport industry on a wide variety of contractual, commercial, corporate, regulatory, tax and contentious and non-contentious matters. A focus of his works relates on aircraft and asset financing matters where he has advised banks, lessors and other financiers in a large number of multinational financing transactions. Furthermore, he regularly advises on aircraft sale and purchase transactions, operating leases (wet and dry) and finance leases as well as on tax-optimised structures to hold and operate aircraft of all categories.

Flavia Widmer is specialising in insurance law as well as commercial law. Flavia advises and assists domestic and foreign clients in liability and insurance matters and regularly litigates before state courts and in international arbitration proceedings.

Mélanie Xu’s main practice areas include corporate law and commercial contracts, M&A, as well as labour and immigration law.