Get to know Vincent Carron
Vincent Carron is a Senior Attorney in our Dispute Resolution Group in Geneva. He has an extensive experience in representing clients before the labour courts and advising them on all employment law matters (including review of employment contracts, personnel handbooks, termination agreements, conditions of dismissals, collective dismissals, business transfers, structure of severance payments, aspects of international employee transfers, international social security coordination, mobility clauses, lease of services, restructuring of remuneration and bonus schemes, work schedule reductions, public sector employment law, preventive measures, criminal complaints against employees, employer’s liability). Vincent Carron also advises and represents clients in matters related to pension funds, covering both litigation and corporate aspects (including amendments to pensions plans, partial liquidations, board members’ liability).
In addition, Vincent Carron regularly represents clients in commercial and banking litigation, insolvency and bankruptcy matters and in public law procurement matters.
Vincent Carron graduated from the University of Fribourg School of Law in 1998, summa cum laude. In 1999-2000, he worked as a research assistant under the Direction of Prof. Nicolas Michel and Dr. Evelyne Clerc on a Swiss National Science Foundation project concerning Public Procurement Remedies. In 2001, he worked as a teaching and research assistant for Prof. Pascal Pichonnaz in the Family and Roman Law Department at the University of Fribourg. He joined Schellenberg Wittmer in 2002, first as a trainee and then as an associate after his admission to the bar in 2004. Vincent also studied at New York University where he was granted a full scholarship as an Arthur T. Vanderbilt scholar. He obtained his Master of Law in 2006 and was admitted to the New York Bar in 2007. Since 2008, he is a Certified Specialist SBA Labour Law. Vincent Carron is a member of several associations, such as the Swiss Public Procurement Association, the Geneva Bar Association, the Geneva Association for Business Law, and is also a committee member of the West Switzerland Association of Labour Law Specialists. He is the author of numerous publications in the legal fields of employment law, social security, family law, public procurement and insolvency.