Xavier Pétremand holds a Master of Law degree (1994) from the Law School of the University of Geneva and followed the International Trade Law Program of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies (1998). He was admitted to the bar in 1997 and worked in Geneva as an associate in a Swiss leading law firm and in a business-oriented firm, before joining one of Lausanne's largest commercial law firms. His practice is focused on corporate, contract and financial law, business transactions, commercial litigation and insolvency law. He has also a significant expertise in estate law, trust matters and international succession as well as in relocation and tax planning for private clients.

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

Practice Areas

Corporate, contract and banking law, business transactions, domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration, economic crime, trusts and estates, private client law.

Languages

French, English, German, Italian

Publications and Lectures

• Co-author of "Le Nouveau Droit du Séquestre en Suisse / The New Law of Attachment in Switzerland", in International Business Law Journal (Paris), No 7 / 1996;
• "Trust et droit successoral suisse", Seminar "Trust Offshore", Luxembourg 2001;
• "Les implications de la redomiciliation d'un Trust au regard du droit suisse", Seminar "Redomiciliation of Offshore Companies and Trusts", Geneva 2002;
• "Le recours au trust en Suisse", Seminar "Trust Offshore", Luxembourg 2002.
  
  

Aurélia Rappo holds a Master of Law degree (1997, awarded Faculty Prize) and a Doctorate in banking law (2000, awarded Faculty Prize) from the University of Lausanne. Between 1997 and 2000, she worked in parallel as a teaching assistant in tax law at the Business School of the University of Lausanne and as a law clerk with a District Court and with the Administrative Court (Tax Section) of the Canton of Vaud. Aurélia Rappo joined one of Lausanne's largest commercial law firms and was admitted to the bar in 2003. Her practice is mainly focused on Swiss international and domestic taxation and commercial and corporate transactions. She has also a recognised expertise in administrative law, especially in public procurement.

Aurélia Rappo is a member of the Bar Association of the Canton of Vaud, the Swiss Bar Association, the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and the Geneva Business Law Association.

Practice Areas

Swiss international and domestic taxation, individual and corporate tax law, corporate and commercial transactions, banking law, administrative and environmental law, public procurement.

Languages

French, English, German

Publication and Lectures

• Le secret bancaire, sa portée dans le temps, dans l'espace et les groupes de sociétés, Berne 2002 (Editions Staempfli ASR);
• La surveillance consolidée : le cadre juridique suisse des flux d'informations intra-groupe et les enjeux pour le secret bancaire, Genève octobre 2003 (Séminaire Academy et Finance);
• La surveillance consolidée des banques, in l'Expert Comptable Suisse, 3/04;
• Les marchés publics : champ d'application et qualifications, in RDAF 2/2005, p. 165 ss.