Yannick Schweizer

Yannick Schweizer is a senior associate and member of Pestalozzi's Litigation & Arbitration Group in Geneva. He specializes in criminal litigation, white-collar crime and international mutual assistance in criminal matters. His fields of expertise also include national and cross-border commercial disputes, as well as intellectual property and advertising law.

Yannick Schweizer graduated from the University of Geneva in 2006 and also holds a LL.M. from the New York University School of Law. His academic career was enhanced by one year of study at the Humboldt University of Berlin and one semester at the University of Zurich.

He was admitted to the bar in Switzerland in 2006 as well as to the New York bar and to the Brazilian bar in 2016.

Before joining Pestalozzi in 2022, Yannick Schweizer worked in Swizerland in the judiciary and in a law firm as well in a top tier Brazilian law firm based in Rio de Janeiro.

2025

Senior Associate at Pestalozzi

2022

Associate at Pestalozzi

2021

Junior partner at Brazilian law firm

2016

Bar admission: New York
Bar admission: Brazil

2015

Associate at Brazilian law firm

2013

New York University School of Law: LL.M.

2010

Prosecutor's Office of Geneva: Legal Counsel
Bar admission: Switzerland

2008

Junior associate at Swiss law firm

2007

High Court of Justice of Geneva: Law clerk
Office of Federal Investigating Magistrates: Law clerk

2006

University of Geneva: lic. iur.

Languages

French, German, Portuguese, English

Expertise & Industries

IP & TMT
Litigation & Arbitration
White Collar Crime

Career

Languages

Expertise & Industries