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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

Andreas Hösli is a Senior Associate in the Corporate/M&A team of Walder Wyss. He is an expert in ESG & Sustainability and advises companies, NGOs and public institutions on all legal issues in this area, with a particular focus on climate change-related legal issues (eg reporting, due diligence, risk management, and contract drafting). 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 and his admission to the Swiss Bar in 2014, he worked as an Associate in a top-tier law Swiss law firm. In 2018, Andreas completed an LL.M. degree at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, in 2018 (with excellence). From 2019 to 2024, Andreas conducted his 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

Climate Change Liability: Comparing Risks for Directors in Jurisdictions of the Common and Civil Law

| by Andreas Hösli and Rolf H. Weber [co-author] | in: Climate Law | pp. 151-196

Corporate Climate Responsibility – Liability Risks under Securities Law for the Board?

 | by Andreas Hösli [co-author] and Rolf H. Weber [co-author] | in: SJZ/RSJ | pp. 605-611

Competence Problems on the CO2 front – Swiss Tax Policy is Becoming Greener

| by Andreas Hösli, Matthias Gartenmann [co-author] and Pascal Krützmann [co-author] | in: Expert Focus 6-7(2020) | pp. 422-425
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