Lawyers

Dr. Olivier Hari

Associate

Personal Information

Bar Admission: Switzerland 2007
Office: Geneva
Languages: English, French, German

Areas of practice

Restructuring and Insolvency; Litigation; Corporate and Commercial; Banking and Finance; Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Venture Capital ; Air and Space Law

Get to know Olivier Hari

Olivier Hari is an associate in our Dispute Resolution Group and our Restructuring and Insolvency Group in Geneva. He specializes in insolvency and reorganization proceedings, corporate restructuring, law of obligations (Contract Law, Torts Law) and property law.

From 1999 to 2000 he received a banking education focused on asset management and financial research. Olivier Hari then graduated from the University of Neuchâtel Law School (J.D. magna cum laude) in 2003 and worked there until 2005 as teaching and research associate with Profs. Roland Ruedin and Sylvain Marchand in the fields of  law of obligations, corporate law and insolvency law. He holds a PhD in Law (dr. jur. magna cum laude) from the University of Neuchâtel Law School and wrote his doctoral thesis on the status, tasks and liabilities of the trustee appointed by a court or a supervising authority to monitor and reorganize distressed businesses, including banks and securities dealers.  

In 2005 he joined our firm as a trainee attorney and then as an associate after his admission to the Swiss bar in 2007.

Olivier Hari regularly publishes in the field of insolvency and commercial law and frequently comments federal court decisions dealing with insolvency and contractual matters. He his member of AIJA and of the AIJA Insolvency Commission, INSOL Europe, the Commission for Continuing Education of the Geneva Bar Association, and of the Air and Space Law Association.

Selected publications

  • Le sursis concordataire, vecteur de transfert des entreprises commerciales
  • Action révocatoire et prêt d'assainissement font-ils bon ménage ? : le remboursement d'un prêt d'assainissement en tant que Sonderfall de l'article 288 LP à la lumière de l'ATF 134 III 452 du 29 mai 2008
  • Défis de l'avocat au XXIe siècle : mélanges en l'honneur de Madame le Bâtonnier Dominique Burger
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Contact

Dr. Olivier Hari
Schellenberg Wittmer / Attorneys at Law
15bis, rue des Alpes / P.O. Box 2088
1211 Geneva 1 / Switzerland
T +41 22 707 8000
F +41 22 707 8001

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