Lawyers Jonas Knechtli

Jonas Knechtli

Managing Associate
MLaw, Attorney at Law

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Location

Basel

Contact

Direct phone: +41 58 658 14 82
jonas.knechtli@walderwyss.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Areas of activity: Employment, Incentives, Mobility & Pensions Litigation Sports

Jonas Knechtli is a managing associate in the Employment and Litigation Teams. He advises on contentious and non-contentious matters pertaining to all areas of business law (mainly in the area of employment law), and represents parties in court.

Born in 1989, Jonas Knechtli was educated at the University of Basel (BLaw 2012, MLaw 2013). Before joining Walder Wyss, he gained work experience as a trainee in a leading Swiss commercial law firm, at the Civil Court of Basel-Stadt, and at the Criminal Court of Basel-Stadt.

Jonas Knechtli's professional languages are German and English. He also speaks French.

KARL STORZ acquires Anklin

27 January 2025

Axalta Coating Systems Group acquires André Koch AG

7 December 2023

Cawood acquires IES Ltd

21 September 2021

Promotions at Walder Wyss

4 January 2021

Boehringer Ingelheim to Acquire NBE-Therapeutics for EUR 1.18 Billion

10 December 2020

Chambers Global Practice Guide: Employment 2026

21 September 2026 | by Philippe Nordmann, Irène Suter-Sieber, Jonas Knechtli and Gustaf Heintz | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guide" | Online-Publikation

Chambers Global Practice Guide: Employment 2025

23 September 2025 | by Philippe Nordmann, Irène Suter-Sieber, Jonas Knechtli and Gustaf Heintz | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guide" | Online-Publikation

Kurzarbeitsentschädigung im Zusammenhang mit US-Zusatzzöllen

14 August 2025 | by Philippe Nordmann, Fabian Looser and Jonas Knechtli | Newsletter

Employment 2024 - Chapter Switzerland

25 September 2024 | by Philippe Nordmann, Irène Suter-Sieber, Jonas Knechtli and Gustaf Heintz | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guides" | Online-Publikation

Product Liability 2024

11 June 2024 | by Maurice Courvoisier, Jonas Knechtli and Peter Bürkli | in: "International Comparative Legal Guide" | Sammelbände

Chambers Global Practice Guide: Employment 2023

8 September 2023 | by Philippe Nordmann, Irène Suter-Sieber, Jonas Knechtli and Gustaf Heintz | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guide" | Online-Publikation

Adoptionsurlaub

20 December 2022 | by Fabian Looser and Jonas Knechtli | Newsletter

Chambers Global Practice Guide: Employment 2022

29 September 2022 | by Philippe Nordmann, Irène Suter-Sieber, Jonas Knechtli and Gustaf Heintz | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guides" | Online-Publikation

Doing Business in Switzerland in 2022

8 August 2022 | by Philippe Nordmann, Jonas Knechtli, Boris Räber, Christian Hagen and Samuel Lieberherr | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guides" | Zurich | Sammelbände

Employment 2021 - Chapter Switzerland

7 September 2021 | by Philippe Nordmann, Irène Suter-Sieber, Jonas Knechtli and Sarah Eichenberger | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guides" | Online-Publikation

Manual on Sports Criminal Law: The Swiss Federal Supreme Court as appellate and revision instance against awards of international arbitral tribunals seated in Switzerland

28 December 2020 | by Maurice Courvoisier and Jonas Knechtli [co-author] | in: Cherkeh / Momsen / Orth (Editor[s]), "Handbuch Sportstrafrecht" | Sammelbände

Employment 2020 - Chapter Switzerland

7 October 2020 | by Philippe Nordmann, Irène Suter-Sieber, Jonas Knechtli and Sarah Eichenberger | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guides" | Online-Publikation

Employment 2020: Switzerland - Trends and Developments

8 September 2020 | by Philippe Nordmann, Irène Suter-Sieber, Jonas Knechtli and Sarah Eichenberger | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guide" | Online-Publikation