Peter Schaufelberger

Ph. D. in law
Specialist SBA inheritance law

Having acted as defense counsel on numerous occasions before ordinary and military courts, Mr. Peter Schaufelberger has developed a practice in civil matters. He is active both on the multiple aspects of family property protection of as well as on the interests of entrepreneurs and companies. He also masters all aspects of international practice for large German clientele. Mr. Peter Schaufelberger is also active in a number of companies, either as President or Director or Secretary or as outside counsel, particularly in the areas of health, financial investment, real estate and hospitality. Over the past thirty years, Peter Schaufelberger has been active individually or in the framework of associations for the poor, mainly in Southern and East Africa. In Switzerland, he was a member of various bodies of the Swiss Red Cross and the Red Cross of canton Vaud and is also secretary of Montreux-Veytaux Evangelical Reformed Church of canton Vaud. In addition, he has reached the rank of Captain in the Swiss Air Force.

Activities

• Since 1992  Trainee, associate and partner at CBWM Avocats
• 1988 – 1991  Assistant at the Law Center now CEDIDAC at UNIL
• 1988 – 1989  Internship at the headquarters of CS business in Zurich

Training

• 2012  C.A.S. Inheritance Law
• 1994  Attorney
• 1993  Ph. D. Law
• 1988  Law degree

• French
• German
• English

• Commercial and corporate law
• Inheritance law
• Contract law
• Family law and divorce
• Private wealth and family office
• Civil liability

• 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. 8 aLP, in De Lege Negotiorum, Études autour du droit des affaires en l’honneur du professeur François Chaudet, Lausanne 2009
• L’étude d’avocats multidisciplinaire, in L’avocat moderne, Mélanges publiés par l’Ordre des Avocats Vaudois à l’occasion de son Centenaire, Lausanne 1998
• La protection juridique des investissements internationaux dans les pays en développement. Étude de la garantie contre les risques de l’investissement et en particulier de l’Agence multilatérale de garantie des investissements (AMGI) (thèse de doctorat, 1993)
• Les arrêtés fédéraux urgents contre la spéculation foncière (Travaux de la Journée d’étude organisée par le Centre du droit de l’entreprise le 8 mars 1990 à l’Université de Lausanne, édités par Peter Schaufelberger) La MIGA.
• Une organisation internationale pour la promotion des investissements étrangers dans les pays en développement, 1989