We represent our clients in dispute resolution in civil, criminal and administrative proceedings before Swiss courts and authorities at all levels, including the Federal Supreme Court. We also act as our clients' counsel before international arbitral tribunals.

We handle contentious matters pertaining to commercial, construction and employment law. Our lawyers do not only act as legal representatives – they're also appointed as arbitrators and mediators. In ad hoc and UNCITRAL proceedings as well as under institutional arbitration rules of the ICC, the Swiss Arbitration Centre (Swiss Rules), VIAC, LCIA, DIS, WIPO, SIAC, HKIAC and CEPANI.

Whatever your circumstances, our extensive experience with complex issues will serve you well. In areas such as construction and infrastructure projects, financial services, distribution relationships, joint ventures, post-M&A disputes, supply chain problems.

You’ll also benefit from our partners' sector-specific expertise. We have sound knowledge of the energy, pharmaceutical, medtech, banking and capital market, telecommunications, commodity trading, aviation (airlines, maintenance, airport construction), transport, catering and food sectors.

Our services include:

• Preventive advice on avoiding disputes
• Dispute resolution by extrajudicial and judicial settlements
• Developing dispute resolution strategies
• Representation before state courts, arbitral tribunals and public authorities
• Interim relief, injunctions
• Dispute management
• Enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards, international enforcement

We support you in mediation proceedings to develop a sustainable and innovative solution to end a dispute – as party representative or party-appointed mediator. Some of our lawyers have been certified as mediators by the Swiss Bar Association and accredited by the Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (SCCM). Our lawyers are experienced in ad hoc proceedings and proceedings governed by the rules of the ICC, Swiss Arbitration Centre and SMC (Singapore Mediation Centre).

Our services include:

• Legal and strategic advice to resolve a dispute
• Initiation of mediation proceedings
• Preparation of facts in accordance with the needs of the proceedings
• Assistance in mediation proceedings
• Legal support with settlement agreement
• Conduct mediations as a party-appointed mediator

The publication "Much less porcelain is usually smashed in a mediation" (page 3) by Monika McQuillen (Mediator SBA and SCCM) and Claudius Triebold (Mediator SVA) gives you some insights into the benefits of mediation as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism.

We offer in-depth specialist expertise and extensive experience in individual, collective and public employment and labor law. Several of our partners are employment law specialists, some certified by the Swiss Bar Association.

In practice, we focus on needs-based and economically viable strategies and solutions. In doing so, we take a stand for what you need in negotiations in and out of court.

Our services include:

• Day-to-day operations: Employment contracts, terminations, work time regulations, compliance, data protection, social security, collective bargaining agreements, health and safety measures
• Performance management: Low performance, compensation models, bonus programs, incentive systems and share plans, conflicts at the workplace, discrimination, bullying
• Modern approaches to work: Outsourcing, recruitment, staffing services, remote work/home office
• Structural issues: Restructuring, collective redundancies, business transfers, negotiating social plans and social compensation schemes
• International affairs: Secondments, law on foreign nationals, employers abroad, contracts in international groups of companies
• Conflicts: Internal investigations, conflict management, litigation and arbitration, mediation

Would you like to combine training and networking? Take advantage of our regular internal training sessions or quarterly HR breakfast sessions. For more information, contact our specialist, Monika McQuillen: mcquillen@lplegal.ch

You can rely on practical and legally sound solutions – in all aspects of corporate and commercial law, as well as bankruptcy law. We offer non-contentious and contentious advice to partners, shareholders, directors, CEOs and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad – at competitive terms. We represent our clients before national courts and arbitral tribunals.

Our services include:

• Incorporation (company/name, domicile, corporate structure, industrial property rights/intellectual property, shareholder agreements, etc.)
• Company dissolution or liquidation
• Drafting a wide range of contracts and agreements, including distribution agreements, sales and purchase agreements, joint venture and partnership agreements, franchise agreements, agency agreements
• International corporate organization/structures
• Buy-outs
• Corporate governance
• Mergers & acquisitions
• Insolvency, debt enforcement

We draw on our specialists’ decades of experience to examine and analyze your issues concerning financial services. We advise domestic and foreign companies on all aspects of financial markets law and regulatory matters. We represent them before supervisory authorities such as FINMA as well as courts.

We advise banks, securities dealers, providers and customers of collective investment schemes, insurance companies, asset managers, pension funds and private individuals.

Our services include:

• Regulatory compliance and enforcement
• Collective investment schemes
• Cybercrime
• FinTech
• Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
• Anti-money laundering (AML)
• Internal investigations
• Regulation of asset managers

You are accused of a criminal offence related to your work or business activities? Our criminal defence lawyers will defend and advise you in criminal or administrative proceedings. No matter whether the matter in question relates to white collar crimes, such as mismanagement, misappropriation, forgery of documents, bribery, unfair competition, financial market offences, customs offences and similar, or other kinds of offences related for example to industrial accidents, breaches of corporate law, labour law or data protection regulations, road traffic accidents and so on – we are here to assist you on every step of the way as your defence lawyer or party representative advocating your interests as a victim.

As your experienced criminal defence solicitors, we will defend you if you are accused of a criminal offence – regardless of whether you are a manager, a regular employee, a company or a private individual. We do also support your company if it has been involved in a corporate crime or if the company or one of its employees is under investigation. We also act as your representative to restore justice and recover losses that you suffered as a victim. You will also benefit from our experience with complex cases and our expertise in other areas of law, including dispute resolution and employment law.

Our services include in particular:

• Criminal defence
• Protecting your interests if you or your company has become a victim of a criminal offence and asserting your rights in criminal proceedings
• Providing support and representation in international judicial assistance proceedings (requests for information and disclosures, confiscation of assets, extradition)
• Assisting with internal or official investigations
• Advising and supporting your company if you or your employees are under investigation or in case of suspected criminal conduct by employees. If necessary, we will take over or coordinate the defence.
• Assisting with related issues, such as sealing procedures, disclosures of documents, disciplinary actions against employees, etc.
• Facilitating asset recovery
• Providing compliance advice under in the areas of anti-corruption, money laundering and other white-collar crimes

In cross-border cases, we are able to draw on a broad international network of criminal defence solicitors and other specialists.