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

daniel.hunkeler@bhlaw.ch
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Assistants: Sarah Veuskens, Diana Barker and Kim Scherrer

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

    1. 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
    2. 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.)
    3. Debtor and creditor representative in civil law debt disputes (in and out of court) and in enforcement proceedings of all kinds
    4. Regular representative in FINMA enforcement and investigation proceedings (since 2007)
    5. Head of the Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Law Section of the Zurich Bar Association (ZAV; since 2009; cf. https://www.zav.ch/)
    6. Regular speaker and/or conference leader at professional and continuing education events
    7. 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)
    8. Partner at Baur Hürlimann AG for many years
    9. 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
    10. 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)
    11. Dr. iur., Das Nachlassverfahren nach revidiertem SchKG (thesis 1996 (magna cum laude), 2nd unv. edition 1999)
    12. Admitted to the bar and practising law since 1993 (admitted to all courts in Switzerland)
    13. Clerk at the District Court of Baden (1991 – 1992)
    14. lic. iur. (magna cum laude; 1991)
    15. Study of both laws (uteriusque iuris) at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland (1986 – 1991)