Legal 500 2026: Recognition reflecting our teams’ work and our clients’ trust

While rankings are only one perspective, they provide a useful snapshot of the market and how firms and individuals are positioned across practices. We are pleased to see this year’s results reflect the work carried out with our clients across a broad range of matters.

 

Practice rankings

Kellerhals Carrard is recognised across a wide range of practice areas in Switzerland, including Arbitration, Banking & Finance, Competition/Antitrust, Corporate/M&A, Data Privacy & Data Protection, Employment, FinTech, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Insurance, Investment Funds, Litigation, Private Client, Public Law, Real Estate, Restructuring & Insolvency, Sport and Tax.

We would in particular highlight: Litigation and Private Client, both moving up this year.

 

Individual rankings

A warm congratulations to all our ranked lawyers.

 

Hall of Fame

Bernd Hauck (Construction), Daniel Staehelin (Insolvency), David Casserly (Sports Law)

 

Leading Partners / Leading Associate

Luca Bianchi (FinTech), Lukas Bopp (Insolvency), Thomas Eichenberger (Healthcare & Life Sciences), Christoph Frey (Insurance), Christoph Jäger (Public Law), Jean-Pierre Morand (Sports Law), Olivier Mosimann (Arbitration), Cornelia Stengel (Banking & Finance; FinTech) and Adam Taylor (Sports Law).

 

Next Generation Partners

Claudio Helmle (Healthcare & Life Sciences), Laura Manz (Insurance), Nicolas Zbinden (Sports Law), Rehana Harasgama (Data Privacy & Data Protection), Urs Marti (Employment)

 

We would also like to highlight this year’s developments:

• New entries: Luca Bianchi, Lukas Bopp, Rehana Harasgama, Claudio Helmle and Laura Manz
• Lawyers moving up: Daniel Staehelin and Olivier Mosimann

 

 

A collective effort

These results reflect the work carried out every day with our clients.

We would also like to thank the many colleagues who work alongside our ranked lawyers, supporting our clients and contributing to the matters behind these results.