Bernard Lachenal > MLL Legal > Geneva, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile

MLL Legal
65 rue du Rhône
PO Box 3199
1211 Geneva 3
Switzerland

Work Department

Arbitration and Litigation | Private Banking | Private Clients

Position

Bernard Lachenal heads MLL’s arbitration and litigation practice in Geneva. He is specializes in Swiss and international dispute resolution in relation to private banking and private clients.
He acts on behalf of private and institutional clients before state courts and arbitration panels in complex proceedings with international ramifications.

Career

Partner with MLL (since 1982), Associate with the Firm (1977–1982), Associate with Palmer & Dodge in Boston, Massachusetts (1976), Admitted to the bar in Switzerland (1975)

Languages

French, English, German

Memberships

Founding member of the Geneva Branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), Member of various other national and international associations

Education

UC Berkeley School of Law, Master of Laws (1977), University of Geneva, lic. iur. (1972)

Lawyer Rankings

Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva

MLL Legal provides a wide range of legal services to financial institutions, funds, investors, and private individuals from regulatory advice, such as license requests, to complex financing transactions, including asset lending and acquisition financing. The team is headed by Dmitry A Pentsov, whose practice covers syndicated loans, pre-export financing, and other similar transactions, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe, and Mona Stephenson, who advises Swiss and international companies, banks and corporations on national and international debt financing, private equity, corporate governance and commercial contracts. Jean-Luc Herbez, Bernard Lachenal, and Alain Le Fort are further key contacts.