Profile: Peter Burckhardt
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Law Firm: | Schellenberg Wittmer |
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| Office: |
Schellenberg Wittmer Löwenstrasse 19 PO Box 1876 CH-8021 |
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| City: | Zurich | |
| Country: | Switzerland | |
| Tel: | +41 0 44 215 5252 | |
| Fax: | +41 0 44 215 5200 | |
| Email: | peter.burckhardt@swlegal.ch |
Business Crime
Biography: Business Crime
Peter Burckhardt, born in 1969, is a partner with Schellenberg Wittmer's litigation group in Zurich, specialising in business-crime matters, legal assistance and complex commercial disputes. After graduating from Berne University in 1995, Peter Burckhardt was admitted to the Bar in Switzerland in the same year and received an LLM degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1999. Before joining Schellenberg Wittmer in 1999, he has served in various functions in the judiciary of the Canton of Berne, inter alia, as deputy judge and criminal investigating magistrate of the XII District (from 1996 to 1998).Peter Burckhardt has practised as defence counsel for high-profile individuals in a broad range of business crime investigations (such as fraud, money laundering, bribery, etc) both on a cantonal and federal level and frequently assists clients in international legal or administrative assistance cases in criminal, regulatory and civil matters, as well as victims of crime in tracing and freezing exercises. In addition, Peter Burckhardt is regularly retained as counsel before international arbitral tribunals and state courts in complex commercial disputes. He has acted as an expert on Swiss procedural and substantive law issues in foreign courts and regularly publishes within his field of expertise.
Schellenberg Wittmer is one of the leading business law firms in Switzerland, with offices in Zurich and Geneva offering the expertise and specialisation of more than 100 lawyers. It is a major full-service business law firm with a large international practice that advises and represents Swiss and international clients in matters of dispute resolution, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, tax law, and private capital and estate planning.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Business Crime Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.
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