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Nicolas de Gottrau
Dr. iur., LL.M. (Duke), Attorney-at-law / Partner
Nicolas de Gottrau provides legal advice and support to banks, corporate and private clients primarily in the fields of banking law, secured transactions, company law, contracts, insolvency, as well as international private law. He has gained considerable expertise representing clients in litigation and insolvency matters before courts (and also arbitral tribunals), including debt collection proceedings, bankruptcies and attachments. Nicolas de Gottrau obtained a Master of Laws degree at Duke University, is also admitted to the New York Bar, is the author of a dissertation on documentary credits (Prof. Walter Hug's Prize) and wrote numerous papers in the field of banking law and insolvency law. He has been a seminar lecturer at the University of Geneva for documentary credits and secured transactions.
Emplacement
Genève
Rue Jacques-Balmat 5
CH-1211 Genève
T: +41 58 220 36 00
Contact
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Langues
- Anglais
- Français
- Allemand
Expérience
| Depuis 2024 | Partner, valfor |
| 1999–2024 | Partner, Python Attorneys-at-law, Geneva |
| 1993–1999 | Associate, Python Attorneys-at-law, Geneva |
| 1991–1992 | Attorney with Petitpierre & Partners Geneva |
| 1989–1990 | Legal Adviser of Tardy de Watteville & Cie Private Bankers [now Banque Vontobel Genève SA] Geneva |
| 1987–1988 | Banking Practice (Intl Capital Market Financing) with Union Bank of Switzerland [now UBS SA] Head Office Zürich |
| 1997–1999 | University of Geneva (Ph.D., summa cum laude, Prof. Walther Hug's Prize and Joseph Des Arts' Award) |
| 1992 | Admission to the New York Bar (New York, USA) |
| 1990–1991 | Duke University School of Law (LL.M.) (Durham, USA) |
| 1990 | Duke Institute in Transnational Law (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| 1987 | Admission to the Swiss (Geneva) Bar |
| 1981–1984 | University of Geneva (Master of Laws) |
- Geneva Bar Association
- Swiss Bar Association
- Geneva Association of Business Law
| 2003–2024 | Member (contributeur externe) of the Centre for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva School of Law (http://cms.unige.ch/droit/cdbf) |
| 2007–2021 | Visiting lecturer (Bank Guarantees in Construction and Real Estate Law) in the Certificate of Advanced Legal Studies in Construction and Real Estate Law of the Swiss Bar Association (SBA) and the Institute for Swiss and International Construction Law of the University of Fribourg |
| 2013–2018 | Member of the Editorial Board Sureties, international payments and financings of the Revue de droit des affaires internationales / International Business Law Journal, Paris |
| 2001–2017 | Lecturer (Fraud in Documentary Credit Transactions), Master of Advanced Studies in Economic Crime Investigation, Haute école de gestion (HEG) Neuchâtel |
| 2011–2013 | Seminar lecturer (Documentary Credits), Master of Advanced Studies in Banking & Finance (LLM Banking & Finance), University of Geneva |
| 2007–2013 | Visiting lecturer (Documentary Credits and Standby Letters of Credit) in the Course on Guarantees in the International Trade taught by Prof. Bénédict Foëx, Master of Laws (LL.M.) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva. |
| 2001–2009 | Seminar lecturer (Secured Transactions) with Prof. B. Foëx, Master of Advanced Studies in Business Law (MBL), University of Geneva |
Publications and Speeches
- Commentaire des art. 95 à 100 LP (ordre et effets de la saisie; estimation des biens saisis; mesures de sûretés pour les biens meubles, créances et autres droits), in : Commentaire romand, Poursuite et faillite, Bénédict Foëx, Nicolas Jeandin, Andrea Braconi, Benoît Chappuis (Ed.), 2nd Ed., Basel (Helbing Lichtenhahn) 2024 (co-author with Marie de Gottrau) [publication forthcoming]
- Contrat de cession globale de créances à fin de garantie, in : Recueil de contrats commerciaux. Modèles en français et en anglais commentés selon le droit suisse, Sylvain Marchand / Christine Chappuis / Laurent Hirsch (Ed.), 2nd Ed., Basel (Helbing & Lichtenhahn) 2024 (co-author with Julia Xoudis) [publication forthcoming]
- Die Bankgarantie im schweizerischen Recht, in : Die Bankgarantie im internationalen Handelsverkehr, Friedrich Graf von Westphalen (Ed.), 5th Ed., Francfort-sur-le-Main (Deutscher Fachverlag, Fachmedien Recht und Wirtschaft) 2023 [Wirtschaftrecht international], pp. 571-652, 837-842 and 864-866 (co-author with Marie de Gottrau)
- Commentaire de l'art. 69 LSFin (responsabilité), in : Commentaire romand, Loi sur les services financiers, Alexandre Richa / Philipp Fischer (Ed.), Basel (Helbing Lichtenhahn) 2022, pp. 647-681 (co-author with Jean-Yves Rebord)
- Commentaire des art. 899 à 906 CC (du gage sur les créances et autres droits), in : Commentaire romand, Code civil II, Pascal Pichonnaz / Bénédict Foëx / Denis Piotet (Ed.), Basel (Helbing & Lichtenhahn), 2016, pp. 2484-2537 (co-author with Bénédict Foëx)
- Placements collectifs Madoff. Devoir de diligence de la banque (news Nr. 905 dated 30.4.2014, Centre for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva; https://cdbf.ch/commentaires/)
- Relation bancaire. Responsabilité contractuelle de la banque (news Nr. 899 dated 7.1.2014, Centre for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva; https://cdbf.ch/commentaires/)
- Die Bankgarantie im schweizerischen Recht, in : Die Bankgarantie im internationalen Handelsverkehr, Friedrich Graf von Westphalen / Brigitta Zöchling-Jud (Ed.), 4th Ed., Francfort-on-the-Main (Deutscher Fachverlag, Fachmedien Recht und Wirtschaft) 2014 [Wirtschaftrecht international], pp. 516-602, 807-812 and 835-837
- Contrat de cession globale de créances à fin de garantie, in : Recueil de contrats commerciaux. Modèles en français et en anglais commentés selon le droit suisse, Sylvain Marchand / Christine Chappuis / Laurent Hirsch (Ed.), Basel (Helbing & Lichtenhahn) 2013, pp. 1143-1174 (co-author with Julia Xoudis)
- Produits dérivés. Conditions de liquidation de contrats d'option à la suite d'un appel de marge (news Nr. 891 dated 28.8.2013, Centre for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva; https://cdbf.ch/commentaires/)
- Gestion de fortune. Détermination du dommage (news Nr. 857 dated 25.1.2013, Centre for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva; https://cdbf.ch/commentaires/)
- Séquestre. Notion de lien suffisant avec la Suisse en matière de crédit documentaire et de contrat d'affrètement (news Nr. 853 dated 10.1.2013, Centre for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva; https://cdbf.ch/commentaires/)
- Lettres de crédit stand-by. Principe de la rigueur documentaire et de l'autonomie de la lettre de crédit stand-by (news Nr. 829 dated 24.9.2012, Centre for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva; https://cdbf.ch/commentaires/)
- Affaire Madoff. Droit de gage des banques sur les avoirs de clients dans le cadre d'actions révocatoires (« claw back ») (news Nr. 813 dated 12.6.2012, Centre for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva; https://cdbf.ch/commentaires/)
- Garanties bancaires. Portée de la clause de garantie (news Nr. 799 dated 30.3.2012, Centre for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva; https://cdbf.ch/commentaires/)
- Mesures provisionnelles contre une garantie de bonne fin, in : Baurecht / Droit de la construction, Zurich, 2/2012, pp. 63-64
- Contrat de conseil en placement. Responsabilité de la banque pour informations incomplètes au sujet d'un fonds de placement étranger (news Nr.786 dated 23.1.2012, Centre for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva; https://cdbf.ch/commentaires/)
- Droit bancaire et financier, in : Etienne von Streng, Nicolas de Gottrau, Christophe de Kalbermatten, Suisse. Fiscal, bancaire et financier, juridique, social, 7th Ed., Levallois (Ed. Francis Lefèbvre) 2011 [Dossiers internationaux Francis Lefèbvre], pp. 241-340
- Qualité pour agir dans l'action en responsabilité en cas de séquestre injustifié (la notion de « tiers » de l'art. 273 al. 1 LP), in : L'éclectique juridique, Recueil d'articles en l'honneur de Jacques Python, Python & Peter (Ed.), Berne / Geneva, Zurich, Basel (Stämpfli, Swisslex, Schulthess) 2011, pp. 119-134 (co-author with Stéphane Voisard)