During his studies at the Universität St. Gallen HSG Andreas Bertsch worked as academic assistant to Prof. Dr. Alfred Koller. He graduated in 1993. Thereafter he clerked at the then District Courts of Alttoggenburg and Wil. He was admitted to the St. Gallen Bar in 1995 and was employed as attorney in the law firm Schoch Auer in St. Gallen. In 1997 he earned the LL.M. degree with specialisation in international trade law and in European law at the University of Essex. From 1997 to 2001 he worked as an attorney with the law firm Nobel & Hug. Andreas Bertsch is an independent attorney-at-law in Zurich since 2002.

Beat Brändli studied law and economics at the University of St. Gallen with an exchange semester at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and completed his Master’s degree in 2009 (M.A. HSG in Law and Economics / lic. iur. oec.). Between the Bachelor (B.A. HSG in Law and Economics) and the Master studies he graduated from the Swiss Army Officer School in Emmen and received a certificate in leadership recognized in civil life as well. He then worked in Schaumburg and Chicago (USA) for a large Swiss insurance company in project management. During his Master studies in St. Gallen, he worked part-time for a listed company as a legal advisor to the investment management. Subsequently, he completed his doctorate and was an assistant to Prof. Dr. Peter Nobel at the Universities of St. Gallen and Zurich.

He completed his legal internship at the Commercial Court of Aargau and at a Zurich commercial law firm. He also worked as an extraordinary clerk at the Superior Court of the Canton of Aargau. He was admitted to the bar at the end of 2013. From the beginning of 2014 until the beginning of 2016, he worked as a lawyer in a renowned Zurich commercial law firm. On February 2016, he was appointed Assistant Professor for Business Law, with focus on Corporate Law, at the University of St. Gallen. From August 2019 to July 2020, he also held the Chair of International Business Law and Law & Economics at the University of St. Gallen. At the beginning of 2018, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School in Cambridge (USA); in the fall of 2019, he was invited to be a Visiting Professor at Insper University in São Paulo (Brazil). To date, he teaches as a lecturer at various Swiss and foreign universities and colleges and regularly publishes on business law topics (see list of publications).

At the end of March 2022, he was appointed by the University of St. Gallen as a Privatdozent (PD) in Commercial Law, Law of Civil Procedure and Law & Economics as of August 1, 2022. At the end of June 2022, he was appointed as a Full Professor at ZLS Zurich Law School. In December 2022, Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences Switzerland awarded him the title of Professor in the field of private law. He is also an editor of Weblaw’s digital case law commentary in the areas of corporate law, financial market law and law of civil procedure (dRSK).

Since 2017, he has been a part-time district judge at the District Court of Baden. In this function, he is directly elected by the people (district of Baden) and thereby officiates in major civil and criminal cases.

After completing his law studies at the University of Basel (lic. iur. 1997) and subsequent art studies at Schule für Gestaltung Basel, Patrick Bonzanigo initially worked as a scientific assistant and as a legal intern at Nobel & Hug Rechtsanwälte, a business law firm based in Zurich, and then at the Basel law firm Delbrück & Schnyder. Having been admitted to the Zurich bar (2002), he practiced as an attorney at Ritter & Schwaibold Rechtsanwälte (2003-2010, Partner since 2007) and as a consultant in the field of planning (2011-2012) in Zurich, until he joined the internationally oriented law firm Bolla Bonzanigo & Associati in Lugano at the end of 2012.

Over the years and based on a wide-ranging practice as a business attorney in different legal contexts and language areas he developed a focus on advising for businesses in contractual and regulatory matters, transactions, planning and real estate matters. Parallel to his professional activity, in 2015-17 he obtained a Master of Advanced Studies in Spatial Planning at ETH Zurich (spatial planner MAS RP ETH, 2017) and then directed the postgraduate programs (MAS, DAS and CAS) in Spatial Planning and served as a lecturer at ETH Zurich from the end of 2018 to 2021. Patrick Bonzanigo also has experience in various parts of the country as a member of expert boards, competition juries and institutions in the fields of planning, urban design and cultural heritage and is involved in different panels and organizations in these areas. He has a teaching assignment on law and design at ETH Zurich and is a regular speaker on topics at the intersection of planning, urban design and law.

After graduating from the University of Zurich in 1985, Christoph Peter first worked for one year at a Swiss District Court (1986/87). He then joined the law firm Nobel & Hug in Zurich and was admitted to the bar in 1988. In 1991, his doctoral thesis on aspects of insider trading was accepted by Prof. Dr. Niklaus Schmid at the University of Zurich, and in 1994 he obtained the academic degree of «Master of Laws in European Legal Studies» (LL.M.) from the University of Exeter (UK). Until the end of 2021, he worked in the law firm Nobel & Hug for a total of almost 35 years (from 1997 as a partner).

Since 2000, Christoph Peter has been a regular lecturer at the University of Zurich on the topics of «Financial Criminal Law» as well as «International Mutual Judicial Assistance» in the LLM program «International Business Law». From 2005 to 2011, he was also a lecturer on international mutual administrative and judicial assistance at the University of St. Gallen HSG.

For more than 20 years, Christoph Peter has also served as Secretary of the Board of the Lemann Foundation (with registered offices in Zurich), which was founded in 2001 and strives to guarantee access to quality public education for Brazilian children and youth of all backgrounds and to support the development of leaders committed to social change in Brazil.

He has extensive experience in domestic and international transactions and disputes.

Sandra Marmy-Brändli advises companies and private individuals in all areas of commercial law with a special focus on intellectual property, media, IT and data protection law. She clerked at the District Court of Muri (Aargau), at Baker McKenzie in Zurich and at WilmerHale in London. After being admitted to the bar (2017), she worked as an attorney at Baker McKenzie Zurich from 2018 to 2024.

Sandra Marmy-Brändli studied at the University of St. Gallen and the Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Sao Paulo (M.A. HSG in Law and Economics 2011). During her studies, she was a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Florent Thouvenin and Prof. Dr. Thomas Geiser. After a research stay at the University of Oxford (UK), she received her doctorate in 2017 for her thesis «Die Flexibilität urheberrechtlicher Schrankensysteme – Eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung am Beispiel digitaler Herausforderungen» (the flexibility of copyright exception systems – a comparative legal analysis using the example of digital challenges). She regularly speaks on intellectual property law topics at conferences and publishes in these areas (see list of publications).

After a long career within the law firm Nobel&Hug in Zurich, which specialises in commercial law and where she was a partner from 2013, Isabel Stirnimann has been working as an independent lawyer since 2018, including in close cooperation with the law firm Schiffbau Rechtsanwälte Zurich. She is also a long-standing member of the Board of Directors of Migros Bank AG and has chaired its Audit Committee since 2016.

Isabel Stirnimann specialises in financial market regulation and financial market law enforcement. As a lawyer and partner at Nobel&Hug, she also advised clients on contract and corporate law (in particular mergers & acquisitions), white-collar criminal law and international legal and administrative assistance. At the beginning of her legal career, she also worked in the field of Swiss and European antitrust law. She has published several legal articles and has also worked as a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen.

Another focus of her current work is on Latin America and philanthropic activities. She is Vice President and Co-Managing Director of the Fundación Educación, St. Gallen, which awards excellence scholarships in Latin America to talented students from financially disadvantaged families so that they can study at a leading educational institution in their country. The Marlene Porsche Foundation, where she is a member of the Board of Trustees, is also dedicated to promoting young academics.

Isabel Stirnimann studied law and economics at the University of St. Gallen and graduated in 1994 with a licentiate in law (lic. iur. HSG), but also attended courses in economics. During her studies, as a member of the International Students’ Committee (ISC), she organised two editions of the annual St. Gallen Management Symposium, which aims to promote dialogue between current and future managers.

After graduating, she was a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Carl Baudenbacher at the Institute for European and International Business Law, St. Gallen. Her dissertation on European antitrust law was awarded the Walther Hug Prize at both university and national level, two prizes of excellence for legal doctoral theses.

Prior to her studies, Isabel Stirnimann completed internships abroad at the FUNDES Foundation, Niederurnen and Central America, and at Hernando de Soto’s Instituto Libertad y Democracia (ILD) in Lima. Both organisations focused on the question of how economic development can be promoted in developing countries.

Dario Sutter studied law and economics at the University of St. Gallen and completed his Master’s degree in 2018 (M.A. HSG in Law and Economics). From 2016 to 2020, he worked at the University of St. Gallen as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Beat Brändli and Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Sester. He holds a doctorate in the field of Swiss and Liechtenstein (family) foundation and trust law (Dr. iur. HSG). In addition to his work as a lawyer, he is a lecturer in company law at a university of applied sciences and author of various legal teaching materials.

Annina Schmid is expected to complete her Master’s degree in law at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in summer 2025. During her studies, she has already gained practical experience in the areas of tax and procedural law in the cantonal legal service. In addition to her studies, she is a board member of the European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) St. Gallen.

Tim Fuchs initially completed a business traineeship at a notary’s office in Zurich. In summer 2022, he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Business Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW and has since been studying law at the University of Lucerne. Throughout a large part of his studies, among other places, he worked at the Commercial Register Office of Zurich.