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Beat Spörri

Dr. iur. / LL.M. / Attorney at Law - Partner

Year of birth: 1961
admitted to all Swiss Courts since 1990
Languages: German, English, French
Tel: +41 44 388 90 90
Fax: +41 44 383 87 57
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E-mail: spoerri@bfms-law.ch
Address: Zürichbergstrasse 66, CH-8044 Zürich

MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE

Beat Spörri is advising and representing enterprises and entrepreneurs with regard to all legal issues nationally and internationally, in particular in connection with disputes, litigation, arbitration, administrative proceedings, transactions and contract drafting.

Beat Spörri is an experienced litigator and advisor mainly active in commercial and business law, corporate law, labour law, real estate, inheritance law, private law and migration law. He is representing national and international companies and individuals in administrative, court or arbitral proceedings. He is assisting enterprises from the start in Switzerland until the succession of the enterprise. His experience in M&A includes complex and cross boarder acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, restructuring and sale of real estate packages. With regard to labour law, the expertise of Beat Spörri extends not only to the drafting of employment contracts or termination agreements but essentially to employment regulations, bonus programs, employee participation plans, remuneration of the top management and directors of listed companies, transfer of undertakings, mass dismissals, employee involvement, investigations, work permits etc.



ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

University of Zurich  |  lic. iur. 1988

University of Zurich  |  Dr. iur. (magna cum laude) 1996

University of Virginia, School of Law, USA   |  LL.M. 1996

Admission to the bar (Canton of Zurich) 1990

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Marco Mathis, Küsnacht, associate [1988-1990]

Müller Wehrli & Partner, Zurich, associate [1991-1993]

University of Zurich   | assistant to Prof. Dr. P. Forstmoser, professor for privat law, business law and capital markets [1993-1995]

Hartmann Müller Partner, Zurich, associate [1996-1999]

Hartmann Müller Partner, Zurich, partner [1999-2020]

BFMS Attorneys at law, Zurich, partner [since 2020]


MEMBERSHIPS / MANDATES
SAV/FSA  Swiss Bar Association

ZAV  Zurich Bar Association

DACH European Association of Attorneys

German-Swiss Association of Lawyers

Zurich Assosiation of Lawyers

PUBLICATIONS
Militärisches Einsatzrecht – Ein Handbuch zum Recht der Schweizer Armee in Unterstützungseinsätzen, insbesondere zu den militärischen Polizeibefugnissen,
Gianfranco Albertini/Thomas Armbruster/Beat Spörri, Zürich 2016

Developments in Swiss banking and financial regulation 2013/2014,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2014/2015, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2014

Developments in Swiss banking and financial regulation 2012/2013,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2013/2014, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2013

Developments in Swiss banking and financial regulation 2011/2012,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2012/2013, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2012

Developments in the Swiss banking and financial regulation 2010/2011,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2011/2012, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2011

Developments in Swiss banking and financial regulation 2009/2010,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2010/2011, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2010

Developments in Swiss banking and financial regulation 2008/2009,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2009/2010, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2009

Vom Interesse des Aktionärs an getreuer Wahrung der Gesellschaftsinteressen,
in: Wirtschaftsrecht in Bewegung, Festgabe zum 65. Geburtstag von Peter Forstmoser, Hrsg. Zindel/Peyer/Schott, Zürich/St. Gallen, 2008

Media, Advertising & Entertainment Law throughout the World,
Jürg Hartmann, Niklaus Müller, Christoph Martig, Rudolf Schaub, Marco Barbatti, Beat Spörri, in: Vol. 2, Intellectual Property Library, Andrew B. Ulmer & MULTILAW International Contributors, Thomson West 2008-2020

Developments in Swiss banking and financial regulation 2007/2008,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2008/2009, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2008

Developments in Swiss banking and financial regulation 2006/2007,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2007/2008, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2007

Developments in Swiss banking and financial regulation 2005/2006,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2006/2007, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2006

Developments in Swiss banking and financial regulation 2004/2005,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2005/2006, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2005

How to Hire and Fire in 76 Jurisdictions, Switzerland,
Beat Spörri and Marco Barbatti, Kluwer International 2005, and electronic updates until 2020 (Beat Spörri)

Developments in Swiss banking and financial regulation,
Beat Spörri and Niklaus B. Müller, in: Global Banking and Financial Policy Review 2004/2005, Euromoney Yearbooks, Colchester, Essex 2004

Arbeitsvertrag: Formvorbehalt für Kündigungserklärungen; Kündigungsschutz, Kettenverträge; Nettomindestlohn,
Besprechung von BGE 128 III 212 ff., AJP / PJA 2002, 1357

Die aktienrechtliche Rückerstattungspflicht, zivilrechtliche und steuerrechtliche Aspekte (Duty of Restitution in the Law of Corporations in Consideration of Swiss Civil Law and Tax Law),
thesis, Zurich 1996