Christoph Burckhardt

Christoph Burckhardt

Associate
Dr. iur., LL.M., Avvocato, Mediatore FSA

Sede

Basilea

Contatto

Telefono diretto: +41 58 658 14 34
christoph.burckhardt@walderwyss.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Christoph Burckhardt is an associate in the Corporate/M&A Team as well as the Employment Law Team. He advises clients on matters of commercial and corporate law, M&A, venture capital, financing as well as contract law with focus on employment law and represents parties in court. Being a co-founder and legal counsel of an insurtech start-up company, he is experienced in advising companies shortly before and after incorporation. Part of his research focuses on sustainability and ESG regulation and its impact on corporations, namely with regard to non-financial reporting and benefit corporations.

Christoph Burckhardt studied at the Universities of Basel and Geneva (BLaw 2012, MLaw 2014), at Harvard Law School (LL.M. 2022), and completed his doctoral thesis on loyalty shares at the University of Zurich (Dr. iur. 2023). Before joining Walder Wyss as an associate, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Zurich and, as a lawyer in the legal department of an international pharmaceutical company in Basel. He was admitted to the bar in the canton of Basel-Stadt in 2016.

In addition to his professional activities Christoph Burckhardt is a member of the Citizen's Municipal Council of Basel, reserve officer of the Swiss Armed Forces and a judge at a Military Court of Appeals.

Christoph Burckhardt's professional languages are German, English and French. He is registered with the bar registry of the canton of Basel-Stadt and is authorised to represent cases throughout Switzerland.

Loyalitätsaktien im schweizerischen Recht de lege lata und de lege ferenda

| di Christoph Burckhardt | DIKE Verlag AG | Zürich/St. Gallen | Editore: Peter Forstmoser

«Vaterschaftsurlaub jetzt!» – Und wie weiter?

| di Philippe Nordmann e Christoph Burckhardt [Co-autore] | in: Aktuelle Juristische Praxis 12 | pag. 1525-1532

Loyalitätsaktien im Rahmen der Aktienrechtsrevision

| di Christoph Burckhardt | in: Das Aktienrecht im Wandel, Zum 50. Geburtstag von Hans-Ueli Vogt | pag. 367-387

Berichterstattungspflicht zur Corporate Social Responsibility – Innovative Form von Regulierung?

| di Christoph Burckhardt | in: Recht und Innovation – Innovation durch Recht, im Recht und als Herausforderung für das Recht (= APARIUZ Nr. 21) | pag. 63-79

Rechtsgeschäftliche Vertretung der Aktiengesellschaft durch ein faktisches Organ, BGer 4A_455/2018, 9. Oktober 2019

| di Patrick Schmidt e Christoph Burckhardt [Co-autore] | in: Aktuelle Juristische Praxis | pag. 126–130

Gelegenheit zur Stellungnahme und zum Stellen von Ergänzungsfragen zum Sonderprüfungsbericht, BGer 4A_223/2019, 16. Oktober 2019

| di Patrick Schmidt e Christoph Burckhardt [Co-autore] | in: Aktuelle Juristische Praxis | pag. 122–126

Opting-out-Erklärung und Organisationsmangel, BGer 4A_589/2017, 9. Februar 2018

| di Christoph Burckhardt e Patrick Schmidt [Co-autore] | in: Aktuelle Juristische Praxis | pag. 1556-1564

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