Lawyers

Vincent Jeanneret

Partner

Personal Information

Bar Admission: Switzerland 1989
Office: Geneva
Languages: French, English, German

Areas of practice

Litigation; Insolvency; White-Collar Crime; Banking Litigation

Get to know Vincent Jeanneret

Vincent Jeanneret is a partner in our Dispute Resolution Group in Geneva, where he heads the firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency team. He specializes in commercial and banking litigation with a focus on international and complex cases. He has been described as one of the few specialists who deals with major insolvency cases on the Swiss and international levels. He is frequently retained as counsel or expert in connection with white-collar crime cases at the federal or state level, as well as with international legal assistance proceedings.

Vincent Jeanneret was admitted to the bar in Switzerland in 1989 after graduating from the University of Geneva (law degree in 1982, business degree in 1985 and Master of Laws in 1986). He joined our firm in 1996. From 2003 until 2009 he was member of the board of the Geneva Bar Association.

He has also been an active member of the AIJA (president of its Insolvency Commission) and is a member of the Fédération Suisse des Avocats and of the Association Genevoise du Droit des Affaires, where he was a board member and treasurer (1996-2002). He currently acts as our managing partner. Vincent Jeanneret has published extensively in the fields of insolvency law and criminal law.
 

Recognitions

  • Recognized by Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer and Who’s Who Legal as a leading practitioner in Insolvency and Restructuring
  • Recommended by Chambers Europe 2009 and PLC Which Lawyer in Dispute Resolution and well-known lawyer in Litigation, with an emphasis in Business Crime in the Expert Guide and Who’s Who Legal

Selected publications

  • Commentaire des art. 60-79 CC
  • Kurzkommentar zum SchKG, Art. 46-55 (Ort der Betreibung)
  • Switzerland: Restructuring Report
  • L'interdiction faite à la banque de communiquer à son client l'existence de mesures de contrainte visant la relation bancaire
All publications

Contact

Vincent Jeanneret
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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