Roland Bachmann
Partner
Roland Bachmann specializes in commercial litigation, with a focus on liability and employment law.
Roland Bachmann advises and represents Swiss and foreign companies as well as individuals in proceedings before state courts of all instances and arbitral tribunals. His practice focuses on commercial disputes, particularly in the areas of complex liability claims and employment law. He has experience with global insurance programs for business and product liability, complex coverage claims arising under D&O policies, and in defending corporate liability claims. He represents companies, employers and executives in commercial and employment law disputes. He also advises companies operating on a global scale on all aspects of employment law and assists them in obtaining work permits. Through his work in litigation, he has gained an in-depth insight into complex bonus schemes.
Roland Bachmann is a Partner in the Litigation and Arbitration practice group and, as a Certified Specialist SBA Employment Law, is the point of contact for the Employment Law business group.
Testimonials
‘Roland Bachmann is an experienced and tough negotiator; he’s the kind of partner you want to work with. Fact based, well prepared and takes actions in the best of your interest before you even need to ask.’
‘Roland Bachmann is quick thinking, analytical and highly responsive. He is a very experienced, sharp employment lawyer and skilful litigator. He understands the balance between forceful defending of interests in court vs. negotiating an appropriate settlement.’
‘His integrity is impressive and I greatly appreciate that he always brings issues to the point in a way that is easy understandable for me. […] Moreover, he acts with instinctive certainty in negotiations while being respected and highly esteemed by all participants.’
‘It is important for me that a lawyer does not “only” think in purely legal terms and always has an entrepreneurial view of the solutions that go beyond the ring gear.’
‘It is a pleasure to work with Dr. Bachmann and his team and I am glad to recommend Wenger Plattner to others.’
Practice Areas:
Litigation and Arbitration
Liability and Insurance Law
Employment Law
Life Sciences and Health Law
Banking and Finance
Career:
| 2018 | Partner at Wenger Plattner |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Certified Specialist SBA Employment Law |
| 2015 | Partner at Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG |
| 2012 | University of Michigan Law School (LL.M.) |
| 2009 | Associate at Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG |
| 2008 | Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of the Canton of Zurich, Civil Division II |
| 2008 | Admitted to the Bar of the Canton of Zurich |
| 2006 | Lecturer on liability law at the University of Zurich (2006-2016) |
| 2005 | Law clerk at the Zurich District Court |
| 2005 | University of Zurich (Dr. iur, summa cum laude) |
| 1999 | University of Zurich (lic. iur.) |
| 1996 | Université François Rabelais de Tours (Diplôme Droit et Politiques Communautaires) |
Selected publications:
Streitverkündung und Streitverkündungsklage: «ménage à trois» im Zivilprozess
In: Frédéric Krauskopf / Adrian Rothenberger (Hrsg.), HAVE Haftpflichtprozess 2023, Das Rechtsbegehren, S. 95-122
The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides | Switzerland: Doing Business in
This country-specific Q&A provides an overview of doing business in laws and regulations applicable in Switzerland.
Schiedsfähigkeit kollektiver Arbeitsstreitigkeiten
in: Wolfgang Portmann / Gabriel Aubert / Roland A. Müller / Roger Rudolph (Hrsg.), Festschrift für Adrian von Kaenel, Zürich 2022, S. 17 ff.
Lexology GTDT Labour & Employment 2022 – Switzerland
In: Labour & Employment Switzerland 2022, Lexology, Getting The Deal Through
The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides | Switzerland: Employee Incentives
This country-specific Q&A provides an overview of employee incentives laws and regulations applicable in
Switzerland.
Labour & Employment 2020, Switzerland
London 2020, pp. 388-395
Einblick in den Kundenkreis als Voraussetzung für das nachvertragliche Konkurrenzverbot
In: Roland A. Müller / Roger Rudolph / Anton K. Schnyder / Adrian von Kaenel / Bernd Waas (Hrsg.), Festschrift für Wolfgang Portmann, Zürich 2020, S. 67 ff.
Corona-Pandemie: Arbeitsrecht und COVID-19
Aktuelle Fragen und Antworten
Newsletter 2/19: Competition from employees ceasing to work for an employer – prevention and safeguarding interests
When an employee ceases to work for an employer, loyalty to his employer is put to the test. There is a great temptation to solicit the former employer’s clients for personal gain and to exploit
manufacturing or other trade secrets for the employee’s personal benefit or the benefit of a competing business.
This newsletter shows how companies can prevent this and how they can defend themselves against prohibited conduct by employees who no longer work for them.
Arbeitsrecht und SchKG
In: Wolfgang Portmann/Adrian von Kaenel (Hrsg.), Fachhandbuch Arbeitsrecht, Zürich 2018 (in German)
Kommentar zu Art. 1-5 ArG
In: Isabelle Wildhaber/Alfred Blesi/Thomas Pietruszak (Hrsg.), Kurzkommentar Arbeitsgesetz (ArG), Basel 2018, S. 16-83 (in German)
Zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Praxisänderung im Regressrecht
Anmerkungen zum Urteil 4A_602/2017 vom 7. Mai 2018, HAVE 3/2018 (in German)
Leitende Angestellte (Executives). Ausnahmen zum Grundsatz der Einheit des Arbeitsvertragsrechts
In: Roland Müller/Kurt Pärli/Isabelle Wildhaber (Hrsg.), Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht, Festschrift für Thomas Geiser zum 65. Geburtstag, Zürich/St. Gallen 2017, S. 1 ff. (in German)
Arbeitsrechtliche Paradigmenwechsel des neuen Sanierungsrechts. Ausgewählte Fragen zum Arbeitsverhältnis im Nachlassverfahren und im Konkurs
In: Bäni Eva-Maria/Obrist Angela (Hrsg.), Festschrift zur Emeritierung von Jean-Fritz Stöckli, Zürich/St. Gallen 2014, S. 1 ff. (in German)
Verdeckter Personalverleih. Aspekte zur rechtlichen Ausgestaltung, zur Bewilligungspflicht, zum Konzernverleih und zum Verleih mit Auslandsberührung
In: ArbR 2010, S. 53 ff. (in German)
Kommentar zu Art. 21 ArG
In: Thomas Geiser/Adrian von Kaenel/Rémy Wyler (Ed.), Arbeitsgesetz, Stämpflis Handkommentar, Bern 2005 (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Portmann) (in German)
Contact
Dr. Roland Bachmann LL.M.
Attorney at Law
Wenger Plattner
Attorneys at Law Tax Advisors Public Notaries
Seestrasse 39 | P.O. Box
8700 Küsnacht-Zürich
T +41 43 222 38 00
F +41 43 222 38 01
roland.bachmann@wenger-plattner.ch
Admission:
Bar admission (2008)
Qualification:
Certified Specialist SBA Employment Law
Languages:
German, English, French
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