Vanessa Benitez

Attorney at Law, Lic.iur.

As a specialist in public planning law and building regulations, she loves procedures without being procedural.

About

After qualifying as a lawyer, Vanessa Benitez began her career at the Swiss Confederation, before developing her passion for public planning law and building control in a major Swiss city, where she headed the municipal building control office for many years. In this capacity, she is well acquainted with the issues and challenges faced by municipal authorities in terms of municipal planning. Attentive to her clients' interests and needs, she seeks above all pragmatic, negotiated solutions, and to this end uses out-of-court dispute resolution channels wherever possible.

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Languages

  • French
  • English
  • Italian

Expertise

Practice Areas

Experience

Board of Directors and association mandates
Career
Memberships
Education
  • Member of the Board of Directors of Lausanne Cooperative Housing Corporation (Société Coopérative d’Habitation Lausanne, SCHL)
  • Since July 2022: Associate attorney at Kellerhals Carrard
  • 2011–2022: Planning Department, Building Regulations Office of the City of Lausanne, initially Head of the Technical Unit (until 2015) and then Manager of the Building Regulations Office (until 2022)
  • 2008–2011: Secretary of Lausanne City Council
  • 2002–2007: Attorney in the Legal Department of the General Secretariat of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs in Bern
  • 2000–2004: Trainee attorney at Spiess Brunoni Pedrazzini Molino in Lugano and clerk at the Locarno Court of First Instance
  • Vaud Bar Association (OAV)
  • Swiss Bar Association (SBA)
  • Register of attorneys at law in the Canton of Vaud
  • 2004: Admission to the Bar, Canton of Vaud
  • 2000: Law degree, University of Fribourg

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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