Your Legal Specialists
Employment law
Occupational Benefits
Insurance Law
Strategic advice
Corporate Governance
Business Law
Philanthropy
Estate planning
Who
Cutting-Edge Expertise
Our team of lawyers enjoys a wide range of specialisations, giving us a comprehensive view of issues relating to human resources law, occupational benefit planning and immigration law. Our core areas of expertise are employment and civil service law, occupational pension law and social and private insurance law. We complement our expertise with other areas of interest to businesses and other organisations: contract law and issues of corporate strategy and governance, company law, commercial contracts, transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, private equity and venture capital, philanthropy and estate planning.
Tailored Legal Services
We offer a specialised service to our clients (pension funds under public and private law, employers under private law and public corporations, associations, foundations and individuals), advising and assisting them in their dealings with the authorities, supporting them during major structural and strategic transitions and representing them before cantonal and federal courts. We also conduct internal investigations and audits into problems encountered in the workplace. We also act as Trusted Persons, Ombudspersons and in-company mediators.
Our teaching and lecturing activities and our publications in reference works and journals enable us to keep abreast of the latest developments in our specialist fields.
Areas of expertise
Employment law
Civil service law, including international civil service law
Collective labour law
Occupational pension law (BVG/LPP)
Social and private insurance law (disability insurance, accident insurance, unemployment insurance, AVS, health insurance, loss of earnings insurance, supplementary benefits, cross-border issues, etc.)
Company law, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions
Law of associations and foundations
Internal investigations
In-company mediation
Company Trusted Person
Data protection
European law (Swiss-EU bilateral agreements, Swiss-EU social security)
Immigration law (residence and work permits)
Estate planning and inheritance law
Team
Partner. Lawyer, Ph.D. in Law, Certified SBA Specialist in Employment law
Anne Meier advises and represents institutional and private clients in corporate governance aspects and in the fields of labor law, public service and social insurance. Her speciality is strategic advice and crisis management. She is an expert negotiator, be it in commercial contexts or in social conflict.
Anne Meier is a Certified SBA Specialist in Employment law. She is further the author of numerous scientific contributions in the field of labor law and social security law and is regularly called upon to give lectures for practitioners and in academic, institutional or associative contexts. She is a scientific co-editor of two major employment law reviews in Switzerland.
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Publications et conferences
Partner. Lawyer, Certified Specialist in Social Insurance with Federal Diploma, Certified SBA and FSM Specialist in Mediation, Person of Trust
Alexia Raetzo holds a federal diploma as a social insurance specialist, and has in-depth knowledge of social insurance. She manages court cases and handles cases involving complex legal issues in occupational benefit, social and private insurance law, as well as labor law. Alexia Raetzo also conducts investigations, specializing in investigating allegations of moral and sexual harassment, in the workplace. As an FSA and FSM in-house mediator, officially sworn in by the State of Geneva for the field of “work” and “health”, and Person of Trust for businesses, Alexia Raetzo also has the skills needed to prevent, manage and effectively resolve conflicts in the workplace. She is the author of several publications on social insurance and labor law, and speaks at conferences in French-speaking Switzerland. Alexia Raetzo is a member of the Committee of the Geneva Bar Association. She is President of the Commission on Alternative Dispute Resolution Modes of the Geneva Bar Association. She is a member of the “Commission de surveillance des professions de la santé et des droits des patients”, an official commission of the State of Geneva on the surveillance of health professionals and patient’s rights.
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Partner. Lawyer, LL. M. New York University
Olivier Dunant is a Swiss lawyer renowned for his expertise in business law, labor law and philanthropy.
His practice covers corporate law, commercial contracts, transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, private equity and venture capital.
He advises Swiss and international clients on complex, multi-jurisdictional issues, such as the establishment of companies in Switzerland and regulatory aspects, the growth of start-ups, the governance of associations and foundations, and estate planning.
He conducts internal corporate investigations into allegations of fraud and human resources issues.
He teaches labor law and immigration at FER Geneva.
His working languages are French, English and German.
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Associate
Amel Benkara advises and represents clients in the fields of labor law, public service, immigration law, contract law and social insurance law, including occupational benefits. She advises both private and institutional clients, and assists them before cantonal and federal courts.
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Publications et conferences
Associate, Ph.D. in Law
Adrien Renaud advises and represents clients in the fields of labor law, public service, immigration law, contract law and social insurance law, including occupational benefits.
He completed his lawyer’s internship at the Swiss Supreme Court and in the labor law department of a Geneva law firm. After being admitted to the bar, he worked as a law clerk at the Federal Administrative Court and drafted judgments in social insurance matters. In addition to his work as an associate attorney at Meier Raetzo Dunant avocats, he is a part-time law clerk at the Tribunal des Prud’hommes, where he takes part in the proceedings and judgment of cases.
Adrien Renaud is the author of a doctoral thesis on the creation, modification, and termination of employment relationships in civil service law.
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Lawyer. Counsel
With over 20 years’ experience, Emanuelle Brulhart is a lawyer specializing in corporate law, merger and acquisitions, commercial transactions and reorganization and corporate restructuring, as well as employment law, social security insurance and immigration law.
Emanuelle Brulhart has in-depth expertise in commercial law, corporate governance and in family businesses, supporting and advising them at all levels (from business creation to succession planning and business transfer). She also represents and advises national and international companies, as well as individuals, on matters such as transfers to Switzerland or abroad (international mobility), the creation of compensation plans, collective redundancies, and issues related to umbrella employment and audits.
Her years of experience and the privileged relationships she has built with the administration enable her to efficiently and diligently obtain the necessary authorizations, ensure immigration and international expatriation processes for her clients, and advise them on various issues related to national and international social security.
