Profile
Brigitte Knecht’s practice focuses on domestic and international commercial disputes. She represents clients in state courts and arbitration proceedings. She also advises on contract law, corporate law and employment law. Brigitte’s expertise covers bankruptcy proceedings, white-collar crime and international judicial assistance.
Publications
Experience
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- Counsel to an international bank in the context of the misappropriation of client funds by a customer relationship officer; representing the bank in criminal and civil proceedings against the CRO and clients
- Counsel to a defendant in a series of D&O claims brought by the liquidator in connection with the bankruptcy of one of the largest Swiss groups of companies
- Counsel to a defendant in a complex international inheritance law dispute regarding account information from a Swiss bank
- Counsel to a Swiss bank faced with a lawsuit in Switzerland brought by an alleged heir of a client of the bank
- Counsel to a Swiss bank in a wealth management dispute involving criminal activities
- Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide: Switzerland: Litigation, 2021 in: The Legal 500 Country Comparative, 2021
- Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide: Switzerland: Litigation, 2020 in: The Legal 500 Country Comparative, 2020
- Global Guide to Litigation: Switzerland, 2019 in: The Legal 500 & The In-House Lawyer Comparative Legal Guide, June 2019
- Schiedsvereinbarung und provisorische Rechtsöffnung in: SJZ 105 (2009) 537-544
2011
University of California Los Angeles, School of Law, LL.M.
2011
The Center for Understanding in Conflict / Center for Mediation in Law, Mill Valley (California), Mediation Intensive Training
2011
Center for Dispute Resolution, Santa Monica (California), Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training
2005
Admitted to the Bar, Rechtsanwältin
2001
University of Zurich, lic.iur., magna cum laude
Best Lawyers 2023 – 2026
Lexology Index – Commercial Litigation 2024
Lexology Index – Commercial Litigation 2023
Legal500 EMEA 2019: Recommended
- IBA International Bar Association
- Swiss Bar Association
- Zurich Bar Association
2019
Counsel, Niederer Kraft Frey
2012
Senior Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2006
Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2002
Clerk with the District Court of Zurich
German
English
French