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Andreas Hösli

Andreas Hösli

Senior Associate
lic. iur., LL.M., Attorney at Law

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Location

Zurich

Contact

Direct phone: +41 58 658 55 44
andreas.hoesli@walderwyss.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Areas of activity: ESG & Sustainability Corporate / M&A Litigation White Collar Crime & Investigations Employment, Incentives, Mobility & Pensions

Andreas Hösli is a Senior Associate in the Corporate/M&A team at Walder Wyss. He is an expert in ESG & Sustainability and advises companies, industry initiatives, NGOs and public institutions on all legal issues in this area (eg reporting, due diligence, risk management, and contract drafting), with a particular focus on climate change-related legal issues. Andreas has published extensively on these issues and is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops. In addition, Andreas has several years of expertise in the areas of litigation, employment law and white-collar crime.

Andreas graduated magna cum laude from the University of Zurich (lic. Iur., 2011). After his clerkship at the District Court of Zurich (Bankruptcy Court, Labour Court) and his admission to the Swiss Bar in 2014, Andreas worked as an Associate in a top-tier law Swiss law firm. In 2018, he completed an LL.M. degree at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, in 2018 (with excellence). From 2019 to 2024, Andreas conducted a PhD project on Corporate Climate Responsibility (University of Zurich, Visiting Researcher at the University of Copenhagen, the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen), which was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since 2024, Andreas teaches the course Sustainability Law at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.

Andreas Hösli speaks German, English, French and Italian. He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and is admitted to act before all Swiss courts.

Private Climate Litigation: Enforcing Corporate Climate Responsibility through Dispute Resolution? A Taxonomy

| by Andreas Hösli | in: "Implementing Climate Change Policy - Designing and Deploying Net Zero Carbon Governance (edited by Ottavio Quirico and Walter F. Baber)"

Climate Change Reporting and Due Diligence: Frontiers of Corporate Climate Responsibility

| by Andreas Hösli and Rolf H. Weber [co-author] | in: European Company and Financial Law Review | pp. 948-979

Milieudefensie et al. v. Shell: A Tipping Point in Climate Change Litigation against Corporations?

| by Andreas Hösli | in: Climate Law | pp. 195-209
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Recognitions


Chambers GPG Business & Human Rights 2025
Chambers GPG Climate Change 2025

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