Dr. iur. Daniel Hunkeler
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LL.M.
PARTNER
Dr. iur. Daniel Hunkeler
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LL.M.
PARTNER
Daniel Hunkeler specialises in the following areas: general commercial law, contract and corporate law, litigation (incl. assistance to creditors/plaintiffs for litigation financing), debt enforcement and bankruptcy law, out-of-court and in-court reorganisations of companies and private individuals, in particular in-court probate proceedings and activity as administrator as well as liquidator/bankruptcy liquidator, so-called distressed M&A transactions and related financing issues, capital market supervisory law, white-collar crime law
Contact
BAUR HÜRLIMANN AG
CHE-115.606.778
Bahnhofplatz 9
PO box 1175
CH 8021 Zürich 1
T +41 (0)44 218 77 77
F +41 (0)44 218 77 70
Activities
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- Debtor and creditor representative as well as court-appointed administrator/head of mandate in numerous judicial receivership or judicial composition proceedings, out-of-court restructurings as well as cross-border restructuring and insolvency proceedings
- Liquidator, extraordinary administrator in bankruptcy proceedings and member of creditors’ committees in numerous, sometimes large insolvency and restructuring proceedings (e.g. ISL/ISMM, SAirLines, Petroplus, Publicitas, Thomas Cook, Karl Vögele, Aldo, Mobag, Gretag etc.)
- Debtor and creditor representative in civil law debt disputes (in and out of court) and in enforcement proceedings of all kinds
- Regular representative in FINMA enforcement and investigation proceedings (since 2007)
- Head of the Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Law Section of the Zurich Bar Association (ZAV; since 2009; cf. https://www.zav.ch/)
- Regular speaker and/or conference leader at professional and continuing education events
- Member of expert groups of the Swiss Confederation for preparing the revision of Swiss reorganization law according to articles 293 ss. SDEL (cf. report of the expert group) and of a FINMA expert group on the drafting of a bank insolvency ordinance (cf. explanatory report FINMA)
- Partner at Baur Hürlimann AG for many years
- Postgraduate studies and Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Miami (USA), School of Law, with special focus on US reorganisation and insolvency law (chapter 11 and 7 US-Bankruptcy Code; 1997 – 1998) Numerous other publications
- Editor of the so-called “Kurzkommentar SchKG (Kurzkommentar SchKG(Hunkeler, Daniel (Hrsg.)) – Schulthess Buchhandlungen – Kommentare, Repetitorien, Fachinformationen)”, among others (2nd ed., Basel 2014; 3rd ed. in preparation)
- Dr. iur., Das Nachlassverfahren nach revidiertem SchKG (thesis 1996 (magna cum laude), 2nd unv. edition 1999)
- Admitted to the bar and practising law since 1993 (admitted to all courts in Switzerland)
- Clerk at the District Court of Baden (1991 – 1992)
- lic. iur. (magna cum laude; 1991)
- Study of both laws (uteriusque iuris) at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland (1986 – 1991)