Frédéric Rochat

Attorney, Managing Partner Lausanne/Sion, Dr. iur, LL.M. (Columbia ‘04)

A seasoned lawyer and negotiator with a wealth of professional experience abroad, he is our clients' trusted advisor on business law issues and M&A transactions.

About

Frédéric Rochat began his career as a business attorney with a leading law firm in New York and London. Since then, he has specialized in medium-sized M&A transactions, particularly in the financial, technology, and real estate sectors.

He also advises companies and investors on financing transactions and was appointed by the FINMA as co-liquidator in the bankruptcy of Banque Privée Espírito Santo.

His clients appreciate his personal involvement and his pragmatic approach to contract negotiation.

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Languages

  • French
  • German
  • English

Experience

Board of Directors and association mandates
Career
Memberships
Education
Further Activities
  • Fondation EuroVacc, Lausanne (chairman)
  • Fondation Ecole de Jazz et de Musique Actuelle de Lausanne (EJMA), Lausanne (chairman)
  • Prisminvest SA, Morges (board member)
  • Carrard Consulting SA, Lausanne (vice-chairman)
  • Seed-Up SA, Lausanne (board member)
  • Fondation Health Sciences e-Teaching, Lausanne (board member)
  • S.I. EJMA LAUSANNE SA, Lausanne (board member)
  • Fondation Georges et Jeannine Piguet (board member)
  • Since September 2015: Partner at Kellerhals Carrard Lausanne/Sion SA
  • 2007–2015: Partner at Carrard & Associés, Lausanne
  • 2004–2007: Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, in New York and London
  • 2000–2003: Trainee attorney, then associate attorney at a business law firm in Lausanne
  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)
  • Vaud Bar Association (OAV)
  • 2005: Admitted to the New York Bar
  • 2004: LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law, New York, James Kent Scholar
  • 2002: Admitted to the Bar of the Canton of Vaud
  • 2002: Doctorate in Law from the University of Lausanne, Edouard Fleuret Foundation award and Walther-Hug Foundation award
  • 1996: Law degree from the Universities of Lausanne and Bern, Faculty award

Teaching business and corporate law at EPFL, within Expertsuisse, as well as in other institutions

Authorized representative at SIX Swiss Exchange for the submission of listing applications (bonds and equity securities)

Contact

Lausanne

Place Saint-François 1
P.O. Box
CH-1001 Lausanne

Phone +41 58 200 33 00
Fax +41 58 200 33 11

info.lausanne@kellerhals-carrard.ch

Kellerhals Carrard

Basel ∣ Bern ∣ Geneva ∣ Lausanne ∣ Lugano ∣ Sion ∣ Zurich


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