Yannick Schweizer | Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law

Yannick Schweizer

Counsel
Attorney at law, LL.M.

Cours de Rive 13
1204 Genève
Suisse
T +41 22 999 96 47
yannick.schweizer@pestalozzilaw.com

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Yannick Schweizer is a counsel 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 commercial disputes, as well as intellectual property.

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.

Carrière

2026
  • Counsel at Pestalozzi
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
  • Bar admission: Switzerland
  • Prosecutor's Office of Geneva: Legal Counsel
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.

Langues

Français, Allemand, Portugais, Anglais

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