Portrait

Matthias Claudius Lerch, born 1975, is an associate and member of Pestalozzi's Litigation and Arbitration group in Zurich. His main practice areas are national and international commercial litigation and arbitration as well as insolvency law.

He graduated from the University of Zurich (lic.iur. 2001) and was admitted to the bar in Switzerland in 2003. In 2006, he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School (LL.M.) and in 2009, he received the diploma "Arbitration Practitioner" (ArbP) from the Swiss Arbitration Academy. From 2001 to 2002, he served as a law clerk for a Lucerne district court and worked as a junior associate for a Lucerne law firm. From 2004 to 2005, Matthias Lerch worked as an associate for a Zurich business law firm (practice group: litigation and arbitration). He joined Pestalozzi in 2006.

contact

Matthias Lerch
Associate
matthias.lerch(at)pestalozzilaw.com VCARD

Pestalozzi
Loewenstrasse 1, CH-8001 Zürich
Phone (direct) +41 44 217 92 20

Expertise

Arbitration, Bankruptcy, Commercial Disputes, Contracts, Dispute Resolution, Private International Law / Conflict Of Laws, Litigation, Restructuring & Insolvency

Languages

German, English

Admission

Switzerland 2003

Publications

- ZPO Kommentar Art. 219 – 242

Memberships

Zurich Bar Association, Swiss Bar Association, Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), ASA below 40