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Matthis Peter
Zurich

Dr. Matthis Peter

Senior Associate

+41 44 215 3425

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Rezarta Belegu

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rezarta.belegu@swlegal.ch

Matthis Peter is a Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution Group in Zurich. His main area of practice is domestic and international commercial litigation, particularly corporate disputes (liability and shareholder claims).

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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