Zurich

Dr. Matthis Peter

Senior Associate

+41 44 215 3425 matthis.peter@swlegal.ch

Rezarta Belegu

Assistant

Matthis Peter is a Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution Group in Zurich. His main area of practice is domestic and international commercial litigation.

Expertise

Dispute Resolution Restructuring and Insolvency

Financial Services

Experience

Acts as counsel before Swiss courts and authorities, with a particular focus on corporate disputes, banking and financial litigation, debt collection and bankruptcy law, enforcement of foreign judgments, and civil law aspects of white-collar crime
Advice on drafting contracts and pre-litigation strategic advice

Career

Professional Experience

2024

Senior Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer

2021

Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer

2018-2019

Trainee lawyer at Schellenberg Wittmer

2017-2018

Law Clerk at District Court of Horgen

2013-2017

Research and Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. Tanja Domej, University of Zurich

Education and Admission

2021

Bar Admission in Switzerland

2018

Dr. iur., University of Zurich

2015

Research stay at Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

2012

Master of Law, University of Zurich

2010

Bachelor of Law, University of Zurich

Languages

German
English
French

Selected Publications

In Reichweite: Der Zurich International Commercial Court IBA Guide to Cross-border Enforcement of Judgments Against States – Switzerland Der ZPO-Revisionsentwurf zum kollektiven Rechtsschutz Zivilprozessuale Gruppenvergleichsverfahren. Einvernehmliche Streitbeilegung im kollektiven Rechtsschutz Prozessführungsbefugnis des Abtretungsgläubigers und Anspruchskonkurrenz OR 678/OR 754 ff

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