Xavier Pétremand received a Master of Law degree from the Law School of the University of Geneva in 1994 and completed the International Trade Law Programme of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies in 1998. He started practicing law as an associate at the Geneva office of Schellenberg & Haissly (now Schellenberg Wittmer) and was admitted to the bar in 1997. He then gained further experience in the business-oriented Law Office of Robert P. Briner in Geneva, before being offered a position with Bourgeois Muller Pidoux & Partners, in Lausanne, in 2000. His practice is focused on corporate, contract and financial law, business transactions, trademark law, commercial litigation and insolvency law. He has also a significant expertise in international estate and trust issues, inheritance tax, relocation and a range of private client matters.

Xavier Pétremand is a member of the Bar Association of the Canton of Vaud, the Swiss Bar Association, the Geneva Business Law Association and the International Bar Association (IBA).

Practice Areas
Corporate, Contract and Banking Law, Business Transactions, Trademark Law, Domestic and International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Law, Private Client Law, Trusts and Estates.

Languages
French, English, German, Italian

Publications and Lectures

Co-auteur de "Le Nouveau Droit du Séquestre en Suisse / The New Law of Attachment in Switzerland", in Revue de Droit des Affaires Internationales (Paris), No 7 / 1996;

Trust et droit successoral suisse, séminaire "Trust Offshore", Luxembourg 2001;

Les implications de la redomiciliation d'un Trust au regard du droit suisse, séminare "Redomiciliation of Offshore Companies and Trusts", Genève 2002;

Le recours au trust en Suisse, séminaire "Trust Offshore", Luxembourg 2002.se, Seminar "Trust Offshore", Luxembourg 2002