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Luc Hafner
Borel & Barbey · Switzerland
Borel & Barbey
Corporate · Switzerland
Luc Hafner specialises in business, estate planning and succession law. He advises Swiss and foreign high-net-worth clients as a lawyer, director, trustee or protector. He has become a reference in the field of private clients, at an international and multi-jurisdictional level.
Luc Hafner has been Chairman of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR) and he has led the renovation of the Museum.
He chaired the military tribunals and was in charge for trials delegated by the International Criminal Tribunal of The Hague regarding war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Languages: French, English, German
Practice Areas: Company Law; Contractual Law; Finance; Succession Law; Foundations and Trusts; Memberships; Geneva Business Law Association; Swiss Lawyers Federation; Geneva Bar Association
Education and Professional Experience:
1969 Legal intern at Borel & Barbey
1972 Geneva Bar
1973 Associate at Burditt & Calkins, Chicago
1975 Partner at Hafner & De Pfyffer
1987 Partner at Borel & Barbey
1984 Colonel (Swiss Army)
1996 Chief of the 1st Division’s Court
2001 - 2008 Chief judge of the 1st Military Appeal Court (war crime cases of former Yugoslavia and Rwanda)
2008 - 2016 Chairman of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR)
Publications: Swiss section of International Charitable Giving edited by Clive Cutbill, Alison Paines and Murray Hallam, Withers LPP
Luc Hafner has been Chairman of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR) and he has led the renovation of the Museum.
He chaired the military tribunals and was in charge for trials delegated by the International Criminal Tribunal of The Hague regarding war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Languages: French, English, German
Practice Areas: Company Law; Contractual Law; Finance; Succession Law; Foundations and Trusts; Memberships; Geneva Business Law Association; Swiss Lawyers Federation; Geneva Bar Association
Education and Professional Experience:
1969 Legal intern at Borel & Barbey
1972 Geneva Bar
1973 Associate at Burditt & Calkins, Chicago
1975 Partner at Hafner & De Pfyffer
1987 Partner at Borel & Barbey
1984 Colonel (Swiss Army)
1996 Chief of the 1st Division’s Court
2001 - 2008 Chief judge of the 1st Military Appeal Court (war crime cases of former Yugoslavia and Rwanda)
2008 - 2016 Chairman of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR)
Publications: Swiss section of International Charitable Giving edited by Clive Cutbill, Alison Paines and Murray Hallam, Withers LPP
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