Peter, Wolfgang

Founding Partner, Peter & Partners International Ltd (2016 - )

• Arbitration
• Corporate law
• Contract law
• M&A (Counsel in numerous Swiss and transborder M&As as well as corporate finance and IPO transactions)

• 1972 Degree in Business Administration, University of Lausanne
• 1974 Degree in Political Science, Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva)
• 1974 Doctorate in Economics, University of Lausanne
• 1971-1974 "Basler Nachrichten"
• 1977 Degree in Law, University of Lausanne
• 1977-1979 Attorney-at-law, Lenz Schluep Briner et de Coulon
• 1979-1980 Expert Commission on Swiss Company Law
• 1980-1982 Adviser to the Federal Minister of Justice & Police, Bern
• 1982-1983 Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School, USA
• 1986 Doctorate in Law, University of Frankfurt
• 1987-1991 Managing Director, Breguet Montres Manufacturing Group
• 1992-1994 President and CEO
• 1995-2000 Managing Director, Montres Jaquet-Droz
• 1981-2015 Founding Partner, Python & Peter

- Has acted as chairman, party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator and counsel in over 250 international arbitrations. - Concerning mainly M&A, joint-ventures and industrial cooperation, international trade, agency and distribution, construction, finance and banking, and natural resources (full details available on request)

• Author: "Arbitration and Renegotiation of International Investment Agreements", Kluwer, 2nd edition, 1995
• Numerous articles on issues relating to international commercial arbitration

• French
• German
• English

• Geneva Bar Association
• Swiss Bar Association
• LCIA (Member of the Board)
• Geneva Association of Business Law
• ASA (Member of Executive Committee)
• IBA