Profile
Ph.D. IN LAW,
SPECIALIST SBA FAMILY LAW
Florian Chaudet joined CBWM & Partners in 2002. He is active in two main areas: family office, including family or estate planning, regionally or internationally, as well as commercial law and business counsel. After working as an ad hoc clerk of the Court and as Assistant at Lausanne university, and obtaining his Ph.D. and his Bar exam in 2001, Mr Florian Chaudet spent a year in England to improve his practice of legal English, including contract drafting in the banking field. Mr Florian Chaudet was a member and secretary of the committee of an International School between 2004 and 2010; he was also director of a company active in wine business between 2005 and 2021. He is presently chair of a society aimed at Vaud canton lakes shoreline protection and of the SBA Specialized commission “Certified Specialist Family Law”. He is as well member of an association committee aiming at a mountain resort preservation.
ACTIVITIES
- 1996 – 1998 Ad hoc clerk of the District Court of Lausanne
- 1996 – 1998 Assistant to Professor Guy Mustaki, University of Lausanne, HEC, for “Concepts and principles of law”
- 1999-2001 Legal trainee (Baumgartner, Wellauer, Lei Ravello et Diserens law firm)
- From 2002 Partner CBWM & Partners
TRAINING
- 1995 Law degree
- 2001 Ph.D. in Law from the University of Lausanne
- 2001 Attorney
- 2013 C.A.S family law
Languages
- French
- English
- German
Expertise
- Commercial and corporate law
- Contract law
- Family law and divorce
- Private wealth and family office
Publications
- «Ajournement de la faillite de la société anonyme, conditions, effets, compétences et responsabilité (article 725a CO)», (thèse de doctorat, 2001)
- «Le droit de consultation du registre des poursuites en relation avec l’inscription de poursuites frappées d’opposition non levée : quelques vœux et quelques pistes en faveur du poursuivi concernant l’art. 8a LP», avec Me Peter Schaufelberger, in De Lege Negotiorum, pages 317 ss, Genève 2009
- «La constitution d’un domicile en droit international privé», in Revue de l’avocat 9/2018, pages 377 ss
- « Droit suisse des affaires » (co-auteur avec François Chaudet, Juan Carlos Landrove, Valérie Junod et Alain Macaluso, Helbing Lichtenhahn, Bâle, 4e édition 2022)
- Format Capsule, séminaire organisé à l’Université de Genève par les Professeures Audrey Leuba, Marie-Laure Papaux Van Delden et Michelle Cottier le 23 février 2023 et portant sur les jurisprudences récentes en droit civil (mariage, filiation, divorce, personnalité et successions) : élaboration de la documentation éditée dans ce cadre concernant la partie procédure ; intervention correspondante comme conférencier.
