Switzerland

Overview

REBER is a Swiss boutique law firm focusing on business law. The origin of the firm goes back to 1988 when Dr. Alfred Reber and Markus Hagmann founded the firm. REBER is managed by seven partners, supported by associate attorneys, interns, accountants and other employees.
It advises private individuals, companies and government agencies in Switzerland and abroad. Whenever necessary, the REBER works together with attorneys in Switzerland and abroad with whom it maintains close, long-term relationships. The areas of activity of the individual partners complement each other. It can, therefore, advise its clients in most aspects of the law and represent them before courts and authorities. The focus of its activities is on business law.

Area of Expertise

  • Contract law
  • Commercial and Corporate law
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Litigation and Arbitration
  • Debt enforcement and bankruptcy law
  • IT- and intellectual property law
  • Insurance and tort law
  • Matrimonial property and inheritance law, estate planning and company succession
  • Construction and real estate law
  • Landlord-Tenant Law
  • Procurement law
  • Employment and immigration law
  • Banking and capital markets law
  • Education law
  • Taxation and state contribution law
  • Competition and anti-trust law
  • Telecommunications law
  • Advertisement, media and unfair competition law

Key Members

Markus Hagmann

Attorney at law
Swiss citizen
Education
1975 Admission to the Bar
1971 Lic. iur. University of Zurich
Experience
since 2012 Partner with REBER, Zurich
1988 – 2012 Partner with Reber Rechtsanwälte, Zurich
1987 Partner with Henrici Reber & Wicki, Zurich
1975 – 1986 Legal and Tax Counsel (First Vice President) Swiss Auditing Company Revisuisse
(now PricewaterhouseCoopers), Zurich
1973 – 1975 Clerk at the District Court of Zurich
1971 – 1973 Secretary in the Cantonal Administration of Zurich
Languages
German, English, Italian, French

Markus Hagmann

Counsel

Roberto Hayer

Lic. iur. attorney at law, MDUE, MCIARB
Swiss and Spanish citizen

Education
2014 MCIArb, Advanced Certificate in Arbitration, CIAMEN University CEU San Pablo,
Madrid / Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London
2001 Advanced studies in international copyrights law at the Institute for Information
Law, University of Amsterdam School of Law (IVIR)
1995 Homologation of Swiss law degree in Spain (licenciado en derecho) and member
of the Tarragona Bar (admitted in Spain)
1993 – 1994 Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Master in European Union Law (MDUE)
1993 Admission to the Bar of the Canton of Basel-City and to all Swiss Courts
1989 Lic. iur. University of Basle

Experience (selection)
since 2012 Partner with REBER, Zurich
2003 – 2012 Partner with Korach Simonius Hayer, Zurich and with Gloor & Sieger, Zurich
1999 – 2002 Senior Associate and Partner with Andersen Legal and Ernst & Young AG, Zurich
1994 – 1999 Legal counsel and associate in a Zurich international business law firm
1994 Foreign associate with Monereo Meyer Marinel-lo Abogados, Madrid
1990 – 1993 Clerk at the courts of Sissach and Basel-City

Further Activities (selection)

  • Speaker, Spain-United Nations Vendors Day 2016
  • Lecturer for International Corporate Law at ISDE, Madrid
  • Founder FORO PRIMA, Business-Forum of Spanish Entrepreneurs and Managers
  • Speaker, Club Español de Arbitraje, Madrid, Annual Congress 2014
  • Lecturer at Spanish Chambers of Commerce regarding Swiss corporate and commercial law
  • Serving as board member and managing director in Swiss affiliate companies of foreign publicly listed stock corporations;
  • Member of Barcelona Global International Council
  • Official Swiss – Spanish Chamber of Commerce, Deputy President and Member of Executive Committee (1996-2012)

Languages
German, Spanish, English, French, Italian, Catalan

Roberto Hayer

Partner