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Tobias Schaffner

Tobias Schaffner is Partner at Niedermann. He specialises in the conduct of civil and criminal proceedings as well as in debt enforcement and bankruptcy matters. A good deal of his practice is devoted to the representation of victims of financial crime with a cross-border element (asset recovery). Tobias Schaffner also has several years of experience in the area of international arbitration as well as in the area of financial market supervisory law. · Niedermann Rechtsanwälte

SwitzerlandLitigation, Criminal LitigationEnglish, French, German

About

Partner at Niedermann based in Switzerland, specialising in civil and criminal proceedings, debt enforcement and bankruptcy, asset recovery and international arbitration. He represents victims of financial crime with cross-border elements and has experience in financial market supervisory law; he also lectures part-time at the University of Zurich.

Practice areas

LitigationCriminal LitigationInsolvency & RestructuringDebt RecoveryAsset RecoveryInternational ArbitrationFinancial Services Regulatory

Office

Expertise

Financial Crime & Asset RecoveryCross-Border LitigationFinancial Services RegulationInternational ArbitrationDebt Enforcement & Bankruptcy

Education

  • Law degree, Universities of Zurich and Geneva, 2004
  • LL.M. (Hons.), University of Cambridge, 2005
  • Ph.D., University of Cambridge (Yorke Prize Winner), 2015

Admissions

  • Swiss Bar (2016)

Languages

EnglishFrenchGerman