Profile
Valerie Meyer Bahar advises and represents clients in commercial and corporate litigation, with a focus on shareholder and employment litigation; in international and national arbitration; and in all aspects of corporate employment law. Valerie Meyer Bahar is the firm’s Hiring Partner and a member of NKF’s executive committee.
Practice Areas
Experience
Valerie’s litigation practice focuses on corporate and commercial disputes, with a particular focus on shareholder litigation and contractual claims. She regularly represents Swiss and international clients before Cantonal courts and the Federal Court. She acts as arbitration counsel and arbitrator.
Valerie also advises on all aspects of employment law, e.g. on the drafting and implementation of employment agreements; staff and time regulations; compensation matters; terminations; and the transfer of employees in M&A transactions and restructurings, including mass dismissals. She regularly handles employment litigation relating, inter alia, to wrongful termination and bonus claims.
- Notice of Termination (Switzerland) in: Practical Law Global Employment, Thomson Reuters, 2024
- Fixed-Term Contracts (Switzerland) in: Practical Law Global Employment, Thomson Reuters, 2024
- Fixed-Term Contracts (Switzerland) in: Practical Law Global Employment, Thomson Reuters, 2023
- Employment Litigation and Timelines (Switzerland) in: Practical Law Global Employment, Thomson Reuters, 2023
- Individual Employee Termination (Switzerland) in: Practical Law Global Employment, Thomson Reuters, 2023
- Notice of Termination (Switzerland) in: Practical Law Global Employment, Thomson Reuters, 2022
- Fixed-Term Contracts (Switzerland) in: Practical Law Global Employment, Thomson Reuters, 2022
- LexGTDT: Swiss M&A: Labour and Employment 2023 in: Swiss M&A 2023, Fourth Edition, Law Business Research, August 2023
- LexGTDT: Swiss M&A: Labour and Employment 2022 in: Swiss M&A 2022, Third Edition, Law Business Research, June 2022
- Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide: Switzerland: Litigation, 2021 in: The Legal 500 Country Comparative, 2021
- LexGTDT: Swiss M&A: Labour and Employment 2021 in: Swiss M&A 2021, Second Edition, Law Business Research, July 2021
- Aktuelles aus dem Arbeitsrecht, 2021 NKF Newsletter, 29 January 2021
- LexGTDT: Swiss M&A: Labour and Employment 2020 in: Swiss M&A 2020, First Edition, Law Business Research, 11 August 2020
- Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide: Switzerland: Litigation, 2020 in: The Legal 500 Country Comparative, 2020
- COVID-19 Swiss Government Measures Supporting Business, 2020
- Global Guide to Litigation: Switzerland, 2019 in: The Legal 500 & The In-House Lawyer Comparative Legal Guide, June 2019
- NKF Client News: New guideline by SECO regarding intra-group hiring of services, 2017 Online Publication, 17 August 2017
- Klage auf Auflösung der AG, 2016 in: Kommentierte Musterklagen, Band II, Hrsg. Willi Fischer/Fabiana Theus Simoni/Dieter Gessler, Zürich/Basel/Genf 2016, S. 147-154
- Klage auf Auskunft und Einsicht; Klage auf Sonderprüfung, 2016 in: Kommentierte Musterklagen, Band II, Hrsg. Willi Fischer/Fabiana Theus Simoni/Dieter Gessler, Zürich/Basel/Genf 2016, S. 117-127, 129-137
- Kommentierung von Art. 13-16 und Art. 20 Bucheffektengesetz, 2012 in: Heinrich Honsell/Nedim Peter Vogt/Rolf Watter (Hrsg.): Basler Kommentar zum OR II/2 Wertpapierrecht, Bucheffektengesetz und Haager Wertpapier-Übereinkommen, 1. Auflage 2012
- Zulässigkeit der Interimsdividende im schweizerischen Recht, 2009 SJZ 2009, S. 205 ff.
- Court-connected alternative dispute resolution, 2005 in: Luzerner Beiträge zur Rechtswissenschaft, Band 10, Diss Luzern 2005
- Aktienrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit – Anforderungen an die Pflichterfüllung und den Schadensnachweis (Besprechung des Entscheides 4a_373/2015 des schweizerischen Bundesgerichts vom 26. Januar 2016) in: GesKR 2/2016, S. 247-253
- ASA Swiss Arbitration Society
- IBA International Bar Association
- IusAlumni – Member of the board of the Alumni association of the University of Zurich Law School
- Swiss Bar Association
- Zurich Bar Association
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