François Meier Associate
Attorney at Law, LL.M.

François Meier

Associate

Attorney at Law, LL.M.

+41 58 450 70 00

francois.meier@lenzstaehelin.com

Geneva

Route de Chêne 30

CH-1211 Geneva

www.lenzstaehelin.com

  • Expertise

    François Meier is associate based at our Geneva office, where he is a member of the Banking and Finance group. His main areas of expertise include banking and finance, commercial and contractual matters.

  • Specialist Areas

    Banking and Finance, Investigations, Capital Markets
  • Practices

  • Professional Experience and Education

    and Education

    2021 Associate at Lenz & Staehelin
    2020 Head of Office of Andreas Schwab at the European Parliament
    2018 Legal Advisor at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
    2018 Associate in an international law firm in Zurich
    2015 Legal clerk at the District Court of Lenzburg
    2017 Admission to the Aargau Bar
    2015 College of Europe, Bruges (LL.M.)
    2014 University of Fribourg (MLaw)
    2014 Georgetown University and King's College London (Certificate in Transnational Legal Studies)
    2012 University Panthéon Assas (Paris II) and University of Fribourg (double BLaw)
  • Languages

    French, English, German
  • SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    • du Pasquier Shelby R., Hünerwadel Patrick, Tranchet Marcel, Menoud Valérie, Meier François, The Banking Regulation Review 2023 - Switzerland, in: The Law Reviews, 14th edition, May 2023
    • Menoud Valérie, Meier François, Portfolio Managers and ESG: A brief overview of the Swiss regulatory landscape, in: Association Suisse des Gestionnaires de fortune (ASG) Newsletter, December 2022
    • Meier François, Die sektoriellen Abkommen Schweiz-EU in der praktischen Anwendung, in: Epiney A., Zlatescu P., Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Europarecht 2019/2020, Zürich/Basel/Genf 2020, 635-660
    • Meier François, Unification of choice-of-law rules for defamation claims, in: Journal of Private International Law (2016) 12/3, 492-520
    • Arjona C, Anderson J, Meier François, Robart S, What Law for Transnational Legal Education? A cooperative view of an introductory course to transnational law and governance, in: Transnational Legal Theory (2015) 6/2, 253-286
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