Simone Wetzstein

Simone Wetzstein

Partner
lic. iur., LL.M., Avvocato, Avvocato specialista FSA diritto del lavoro

Sede

Zurigo

Contatto

Telefono diretto: +41 58 658 56 54
simone.wetzstein@walderwyss.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Simone Wetzstein is Co-Head of our Employment Law Team and a partner. She advises national companies, international groups as well as private individuals on all aspects of employment law, in particular in connection with the drafting of employment contracts, compensation models, the termination of employment relationships and in the context of restructuring projects (transfers of undertakings, mass redundancies, etc.). In addition, Simone Wetzstein has many years of expertise in questions of personnel leasing/staffing agencies and obtaining work and residence permits. Simone Wetzstein also advises in the context of social security law issues related to employment law and represents parties in court. Finally, a particular focus of Simone Wetzstein’s work is on issues relating to various forms of discrimination and gender equality law.

Simone Wetzstein was supported by the Swiss Study Foundation during her studies, studied at the Universities of Zurich and Haifa, Israel (lic. iur. Zurich 2010), was admitted to the bar in 2013 and is a Certified Specialist SBA Employment Law. As a Fulbright Scholar, she complemented her education at Columbia Law School in New York, where she graduated in May 2017 with an LL.M. focusing on discrimination law issues and mediation. At ZHAW, she teaches as part of the CAS Legal Influencing Factors & HR

Simone Wetzstein has been working for Walder Wyss as a lawyer since 2013. Prior to this, she worked as a trainee lawyer in a major law firm in Zurich and at the Administrative Court of Aarau. Simone Wetzstein was also responsible for the management of the Winterthur Music Festival for many years.

Simone Wetzstein practices in both German and English and also speaks French and Hebrew. She is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all of Switzerland.

The Walder Wyss Employment Team recognized as "Global Elite 2025" by International Employment Lawyer IEL

Walder Wyss advises Mercer on the acquisition of hkp///group

Voliro announces USD 12 million Series A funding round

Flowit announced CHF 4m seed funding round

Subway® expands Presence in Switzerland and Liechtenstein with Convenience House Schweiz AG

Bregal Unternehmerkapital acquires majority stake in BSI Software from Capvis

Walder Wyss advises Fundamenta Group Holding AG on the sale of its real estate division to Swiss Prime Site AG

SMG acquires majority stake in Flatfox from Mobiliar

Walder Wyss recognized as "Global Elite 2024" by International Employment Lawyer IEL

Walder Wyss advises WEG S.A. as Swiss counsel in the acquisition of the industrial electric motors and generators business of the Regal Rexnord Corporation

ITS Kanal Services AG acquires Restclean AG

Bavarian Nordic Acquires Emergent BioSolutions’ Travel Vaccines Portfolio

Promotions at Walder Wyss

CRK joins MYTY Group

Series Seed Financing Round of myDropz AG

Ufenau sells Swiss IT Security Group to Triton

Permira guida un round di finanziamento da 180 milioni di USD per Nexthink

Superamento degli esami di formazione continua per Avvocati specialisti FSA in diritto del lavoro

Il gruppo Swiss IT Security acquista keyon AG

WiseTech Global acquires SISA Studio Informatica SA

Doing Business in Switzerland – A Practical Guide

| di Ramona Wyss, Andrea Haefeli, Gion Giger, David Vasella, Davide Cerutti, Marco Galli, Roger Staub, Manuel Bigler, Reto Jacobs, Monique Sturny, Thomas P. Müller, Nadja D. Leuthardt, Adriano Antonietti, Valentine Schnyder, Stefan Knobloch, Dimitrios Berger, Dominik Hohler, Letizia Schlegel, Stéphanie Oneyser, Urs P. Gnos, Dario Galli, Michael Kündig, Markus Vischer, Urs Schenker, Christian A. Schmid, Patrick W. Vogel, Alexander Sorton, Samuel Lieberherr, Daniel Dedeyan, Nico Bernhard, Theodor Härtsch, Tervel Stoyanov, Lukas Wyss, Markus Pfenninger, Valentin Wiesner, Rafal Szala, Thiemo Sturny, Roger Ammann, Hubertus Hillerström, Ken Savioz, Simone Wetzstein, Valentina Eichin, Irène Suter-Sieber, Olivier Sigg, Laura Luongo, Francis Nordmann, André Kuhn, Davide Jermini, Christian Eichenberger, Matthieu Seydoux, Thomas Meister, Janine Corti, Robert Desax, Fabienne Limacher, Dieter Hofmann, Rodolphe Gautier, Roxane Allot, Micha Bühler, Michael Feit, Maurice Courvoisier, Oliver M. Kunz e Pascale Köster | Editore: Urs P. Gnos, Theodor Härtsch | Ed.: 2nd edition

Switzerland Chapter in The Employment Law Review Edition 14

| di Simone Wetzstein | in: "The Law Reviews" | Zürich

Employment in Financial Services

| di Simone Wetzstein, Matthias Lötscher e Sarah Vettiger | in: "The Law Reviews" | Zürich

Pitfalls in employment contracts

| Relatori Irène Suter-Sieber e Simone Wetzstein | WW Employment Luncheon | St. Gallen

Lohnfortzahlung bei COVID-19

| di Simone Wetzstein | in: HR Today

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