Thomas Weibel

Partner - Head of Dispute Resolution. Main practice areas: Litigation and Arbitration, Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law, Private International Law, Inheritance Law, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property and Competition Law, White Collar Crime. Particular focus on: (i) complex cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on the financial industry, aviation, and shareholder disputes, (ii) high-profile and bet-the-company disputes, as well as (iii) white collar cases (fraud, embezzlement, including tracing and freezing of assets). Also acts regularly as expert for Swiss law in high-stake disputes before foreign courts and arbitral tribunals, including cross-examination as Part 35 Expert under the UK CPR. Further practice areas: i) recognition and enforcement of judgments and awards, ii) internal investigations, iii) injunctive relief, and iv) inheritance disputes. Regularly publishes and lectures on national and international civil procedure law as well as inheritance law, and acts as editor in chief for civil procedure law for a case law periodical. · VISCHER

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Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution at VISCHER in Switzerland. Specialises in complex cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration—particularly in the financial industry, aviation and shareholder disputes—and in high-profile white-collar matters including fraud, embezzlement and asset tracing and freezing; regularly acts as an expert on Swiss law before foreign courts and tribunals.

Practice areas

LitigationInternational ArbitrationDebt Enforcement & BankruptcyPrivate International LawInheritance LawCorporate / M&AIntellectual PropertyWhite Collar Crime

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Switzerland

VISCHER · Partner - Head of Dispute Resolution. Main practice areas: Litigation and Arbitration, Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law, Private International Law, Inheritance Law, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property and Competition Law, White Collar Crime. Particular focus on: (i) complex cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on the financial industry, aviation, and shareholder disputes, (ii) high-profile and bet-the-company disputes, as well as (iii) white collar cases (fraud, embezzlement, including tracing and freezing of assets). Also acts regularly as expert for Swiss law in high-stake disputes before foreign courts and arbitral tribunals, including cross-examination as Part 35 Expert under the UK CPR. Further practice areas: i) recognition and enforcement of judgments and awards, ii) internal investigations, iii) injunctive relief, and iv) inheritance disputes. Regularly publishes and lectures on national and international civil procedure law as well as inheritance law, and acts as editor in chief for civil procedure law for a case law periodical.

Switzerland

Expertise

Cross-border commercial litigation and arbitrationFinancial industry disputesAviation disputesShareholder disputesHigh-profile / bet-the-company litigationWhite-collar crime (fraud, embezzlement; asset tracing and freezing)Expert evidence on Swiss law (including cross-examination as Part 35 Expert under the UK CPR)Recognition and enforcement of judgments and awardsInternal investigationsInjunctive reliefInheritance disputesCivil procedure scholarship and editorship

Education

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1997)
University of Basel (Dr. iur., 2001; summa cum laude)
University of Kent at Canterbury (LL.M. in International Commercial Law, 2004)

Languages

GermanEnglishFrenchSpanishItalian