
Yves de Coulon
Yves de Coulon is an FSA specialist in construction and real estate law. He is one of the founding partners of the firm and heads its Real Estate and Construction department. He has an in-depth knowledge of the real estate market in the Lake Geneva region. His activities cover all the main areas of real estate: transactions, construction, leases, management of real estate assets, financing and investment vehicles, public procurement zoning as well as urban and mobility planning. He also has extensive experience in the hotel industry and in the indirect real estate investments. He advises institutional and private clients on these various aspects and assists them before the competent civil and administrative courts. He is Chairman of the board of Bonhôte Immobilier SICAV, a major listed Swiss real estate investment fund and Chairman of the Horizon Léman Association, which each year manages the Lake Geneva Regions stand at MIPIM (International Market for Real Estate Professionals) in Cannes. He is also a member ot the board of Banque Bonhôte in Neuchâtel and of the board of Fondation Emma Kammacher, a Geneva public foundation which ownes 2'000.- affordable appartments in Geneva. In July 2024, Yves de Coulon was included in the Who's Who of the 100 key players in Swiss real estate (designated by IMMOBILEN Business magazine and its French-language supplement IMMOBILIER ROMAND) who are considered “particularly active, competent and visionary”. · Valfor Attorneys-at-law
About
Yves de Coulon is an FSA specialist in construction and real estate law and a founding partner at Valfor who heads the firm's Real Estate and Construction department. He advises institutional and private clients on real estate transactions, construction, leasing, asset management, financing and urban planning, with particular market expertise in the Lake Geneva region and experience in the hotel and indirect real estate investment sectors.
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- CAS in Construction and Real Estate, University of Fribourg (2014)
- LL.M., International Business Law, King's College London (1997)
- Master of Laws, University of Geneva (1988)
Admissions
- Admitted to the Swiss Bar (1990)
- FSA specialist in Construction and Real Estate Law