Your Legal Specialists
Employment Law
Occupational Benefits
Insurance Law
Strategic advice
Corporate governance
Who
Cutting-Edge Expertise
We are a team of lawyers specializing in public and private employment law, occupational benefits, social and private insurance as well as related legal fields, such as contract law, corporate strategy and governance issues.
Thanks to our specializations, we have a global view on human resources and pension law. As a result, we offer a specialized service to our clients (pension funds, employers under private law and public corporations, associations and individuals).
Tailored Legal Services
We advise our clients, including strategic advice and crisis management. We assist them in their dealings with the authorities, support them during major structural transitions and represent them before the state and federal courts. We conduct internal investigations and audits into workplace issues and regarding corporate governance. We also act as Trusted Persons, Ombudspersons and in-company mediators.
Our teaching and lecturing activities, as well as our publications in reference books and journals, enable us to always keep abreast of the latest developments in our specialist fields.
Areas of expertise
Employment law
Civil service law, including international civil service law
Collective labor 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.)
Strategic advice – Corporate Governance – Crisis management
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)
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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Publications et conferences
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
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, handling social insurance cases. In addition to his work as an associate attorney at Meier Raetzo, he is a part-time law clerk at the Tribunal des Prud’hommes and is writing a doctoral thesis on civil service law.
