Worked several years in New York and London and has extensive experience of Corporate Law and Contract Law, Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets.
Areas of expertise: commercial law and contract law – corporate law – mergers and acquisitions – banking, finance and capital markets law – real estate
Languages: French, English, German
Education
- Universities of Lausanne and Bern (Lic. iur., 1996), Faculty award
- University of Lausanne (Dr. iur., 2002), Edouard Fleuret Foundation award and Walther-Hug award
- Columbia University School of Law, New York (LL.M., 2004), James Kent Scholar
- New York Bar (admitted in 2005)
- Admitted to the bar
Professional experience
- Partner at the law firm Carrard & Associés since 2007
- Associate attorney in the mergers and acquisitions and capital markets departments of the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York (2004-2005) and London (2006-2007)
- Trainee attorney, then associate attorney at a law firm specialising in business law in Lausanne (2000-2003)
- Assistant to Prof. J.-M. Rapp at the Business Law Centre (CEDIDAC) at the Law Faculty of the University of Lausanne (1997-2000)
Member of
- Vaud Bar Association (OAV)
- Swiss Bar Federation (FSA)
- Jeune Barreau vaudois
- American Bar Association (ABA)
- Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
Registered in the Cantonal Attorneys’ Register (Vaud)
Academic commitments
Frédéric Rochat is lecturer in Business Law as part of the technology and entrepreneurship management program at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Frédéric Rochat is responsible for the Swiss Law teaching program for foreign accountants as part of the Chambre Fiduciaire (EDUCARIS) and a lecturer for the Swiss Company Law course.
Frédéric Rochat is lecturer in the training program for the start-up entrepreneurs, organized by Venturelab.
Publications
Inefficacité du titre d'aliénation et renaissance de l'action réelle mobilière (Frédéric Rochat), thesis Lausanne 2000, Zurich 2002 (Edouard Fleuret Prize 2003; Walther Hug Prize 2004)
Les projets de Sàrl révisée et de SA privée (Frédéric Rochat et Ph. Ferrari Ed.), CEDIDAC no. 37, Lausanne, 1998