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Law firm since 1936

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About Frôté & Partner

Active in all major areas of law since 1936, and with offices in Biel Neuchâtel Solothurn

Over the decades, the law and notary firm Frôté & Partner has developed considerable expertise in assisting SMEs and family businesses.

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Biel-Bienne

Frôté & Partner

Place Centrale 51

P.O. Box 480

CH-2501 Biel-Bienne

Tel. +41 32 322 25 21

Fax +41 32 323 18 79

info@frotepartner.ch

Neuchâtel

Frôté & Partner

Faubourg du Lac 11

P.O. Box 2333

CH-2001 Neuchâtel

Tel. +41 32 722 17 00

Fax +41 32 722 17 07

info@frotepartner.ch

Solothurn

Frôté & Partner

Westbahnhofstrasse 1

Postfach 333

CH-4502 Solothurn

Tel. +41 32 628 26 26

Fax +41 32 628 26 20

info@frotepartner.ch

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Our services

Our law firm offers you the complementary skills of general practitioners and lawyers specializing in various areas of law, supporting professionals, businesses and individuals.

Our extensive network of partners and the pooling of our skills with those of Dynafisc Frôté and Schoeb Frôté SA enable us to offer global services under the F&P brand, and thus to extend our range of services to the following areas:

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Integrity and legal excellence

Frôté & Partner is a multilingual law firm with offices in Biel, Neuchâtel and Solothurn, handling all legal matters in French, German, English and Italian. Our experienced staff, some of whom are highly specialized, have strong regional roots as well as extensive international experience.

Our natural respect for our customers and our willingness to listen to them drive us to act exclusively in their interests, and define the quality of our services. Our corporate governance ensures the highest ethical standards. With the benefit of expertise acquired over three generations, we are now in a position to present ourselves to companies and individuals as both generalists and specialists in each branch of the law.

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Lawyer in Biel

Integrity and legal excellence

Frôté & Partner is a multilingual law firm with offices in Biel, Neuchâtel and Solothurn, handling all legal matters in French, German and English. Our experienced staff, some of whom are highly specialized, have strong regional roots as well as extensive international experience.

Our natural respect for our customers and our willingness to listen to them drive us to act exclusively in their interests, and define the quality of our services. Our corporate governance ensures the highest ethical standards. With the benefit of expertise acquired over three generations, we are now in a position to present ourselves to companies and individuals as both generalists and specialists in each branch of the law.

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The Frôté & Partner law firm can answer all your legal questions or problems requiring the intervention or advice of a lawyer.

Our services are aimed primarily at small and large companies operating regionally or internationally, as well as private individuals.

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Droit bancaire et financier

Frôté François

Partner, Lawyer

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After being admitted to the Bern Bar in November 1979, François Frôté joined Frôté & Partner SA. After practising as a barrister for several years, François Frôté gradually developed a consultancy business and took on various directorships.

Training

  • Admission to the bar of the Canton of Bern.
  • Vice-Chairman of BCBE, 1993-2005
  • Chairman of the Tornos Group, 2002 – 2024
  • French
  • German

Wüthrich Urs

Partner, Lawyer

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Born in 1959, Urs Wüthrich joined the firm in 1987. He works as a barrister.

Training

  • Admitted to the bar in the Canton of Berne, 1986
  • Attorney-at-law in the Canton of Berne since 2014
  • German
  • French
  • English
  • Family law
  • Liability law
  • Contract law (mainly employment law, company contracts, etc.)
  • Criminal law
  • Inheritance law

Labbé Marc

Partner, Lawyer

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Born in 1960, Marc Labbé joined the firm in 1990, after several years as Clerk and President e.o. of the Moutier District Court.

Training

  • Licensed to practise as an attorney in the Canton of Berne, 1987
  • Law degree, University of Neuchâtel, 1984
  • Lawyer with Frôté & Partner since 1990
  • From 1987 to 1990, Clerk and President e.o. of the Moutier District Court
  • Member of the Committee of the Bern Lawyers’ Association from 1998 to 2010, Vice-Chairman from 2001 to 2005 and President of the Bern Lawyers’ Association from 2005 to 2010.
  • Member of the Board of the Swiss Bar Association
  • Head of the Commission for the implementation of FSA specialist lawyer training courses in French-speaking Switzerland
  • Member of boards of directors
  • French
  • German
  • English
  • Building and planning law
  • Divorce law
  • Tort and insurance law
  • Criminal law
  • Traffic law

Jordi Markus

Partner, lic. iur. iur, Lawyer

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Born in 1972, Markus Jordi joined us in 2007 after several years with a national and international law firm with offices in Zurich and Bern. Prior to this, in 1998, he worked in corporate consulting for a medium-sized trustee firm, of which he was one of the co-founders.

Training

  • Licensed to practise as an attorney in the Canton of Bern, 2004
  • lic.iur., University of Bern, 2002
  • Member of the Boards of Directors of SMEs
  • Trusteeship commissions
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Corporate legal advice
  • Contract law
  • Employment law
  • Company and inheritance law
  • Civil procedure law
  • Criminal law
  • International procedures
Frôté Gilles

Frôté Gilles

Partner, lic. iur., LL. M., Lawyer

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Born in 1980, Gilles Frôté joined Frôté & Partner SA at the end of 2008 after several years with CREDIT SUISSE in Solothurn and Zurich. In this context, he has led a large number of transactions in the field of mergers and acquisitions, as well as in corporate finance, both in Switzerland and internationally. As a company director and advisor, he is involved in a number of international projects, particularly in the USA and Asia, whether setting up structures or carrying out transactions.

Training

  • LL.M. in International Commercial Law, Zurich (in collaboration with Tulane University, USA and Hong Kong University, Hong Kong), 2012
  • Admitted to the Bar of the Canton of Berne, 2006
  • Lic.iur., Universität Bern, 2004
  • Summer internship Los Angeles, CA-USA and Cincinnati, OH-USA
  • Member of the Board of Directors of SMEs
  • Property management
  • Credit Suisse Solution Partners, Corporate Finance, Zurich
  • Credit Suisse Entrepreneur Desk Mittelland, Young Talent
  • French
  • German
  • English
  • Finance
  • International contracts
  • Business consulting
  • Commercial and contract law
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Financing and succession solutions
Gehrig Daniel

Gehrig Daniel

Partner, MLaw, Lawyer, Notary

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Daniel Gehrig is a qualified lawyer and notary in the Canton of Berne, and holds a postgraduate diploma (CAS Forensics) from the University of Lucerne (Public Prosecutor’s Academy).

Training

  • Licensed as a Notary in the Canton of Berne
  • Licensed as an Attorney-at-Law in the Canton of Bern
  • Master of Law (MLaw), University of Bern
  • CAS Forensics, University of Lucerne (Public Prosecutor’s Academy)
  • Partner and board member at Frôté & Partner since 2018
  • Notary with Frôté & Partner since 2016
  • Lawyer with Frôté & Partner since 2011
  • Investigation Judge for Military Justice, 2010 to 2015
  • Legal internship, Advokatur Friedli & Schnidrig, Bern, 2009
  • Legal internship, Bern-Mittelland Prefecture, Bern, 2009
  • Legal internship, District Court III – Aarberg-Büren-Erlach (now Regional Court Jura Bernois-Seeland), 2008
  • German
  • French
  • English

As a notary:

  • Corporate and commercial law (e.g. incorporation of limited liability companies, restructuring, etc.)
  • Property transfers (sale of properties, drawing up of mortgage bonds, easement,…)
  • Estates, wills and inheritance contracts
  • Marriage contracts

 

As a lawyer:

  • Civil Procedures 
  • Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Law
  • Inheritance Law
  • Real Estate Law
  • General Contract Law
  • Tenancy and Labor Law
  • Corporate and Commercial Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Liability and Insurance Law
  • Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law (including Economic Criminal law)

Nicolet Max-Olivier

Partner, Notary, Lawyer

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Mr. Max-Olivier Nicolet, born in 1960, has been licensed as a Bern Attorney-at-Law since 1986 and as a Bern Notary since 1989. After running his own practice in La Neuveville for around ten years, he joined Frôté & Partner SA in 1998, following a change in notarial legislation abolishing district boundaries. At present, Me Nicolet’s main role is that of notary.

Training

  • Licensed as a notary in the Canton of Berne, 1989
  • Admission to the bar of the Canton of Bern, 1986
  • French
  • German
  • Real estate transfers
  • Corporate law, foundations, restructuring
  • Estates, wills and inheritance contracts
  • Marriage contracts
Bättig Andreas

Bättig Andreas

Partner, lic. iur., LL. M., Lawyer

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Andreas Bättig, born in 1978, joined Etude Frôté & Partner SA in mid-2018 after a long career with a commercial law firm in Berne. The main focus of his practice is commercial and corporate law, and contract law in general. Andreas Bättig has a wealth of experience in advising national and international companies and private individuals, as well as in representing his clients in court, in arbitration proceedings and in dealings with the authorities.

Training

  • Postgraduate Legal Studies (LL.M.), King’s College, London, 2007-2008
  • Admitted to the Bar of the Canton of Berne, 2004
  • lic. iur., University of Bern, 2002
  • Partner at Frôté & Partner SA since 2018
  • Lawyer in a commercial law firm in Bern, 2004-2018
  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Commercial and contract law
  • Corporate law, mergers and acquisitions
  • Banking, finance and capital law
  • Intellectual property and unfair competition law
  • Civil litigation
  • Representation of parties in court and arbitration proceedings
Helbling Antoine

Helbling Antoine

Lic. sc. Ec and qualified tax expert.

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Mr Helbling has been working with our firm since March 2010. He previously worked for the Administration Fiscale Neuchâteloise, where he gained extensive practical experience in a variety of tax matters. He also has extensive experience in guardianship matters. His knowledge of tax, economics and accounting enables him to provide services to companies and individuals in the areas of business restructuring, acquisitions and sales, tax planning in the field of real estate, inheritance and gifts, and occupational pensions.

Training

  • License in political economics, Neuchâtel University, 1998
  • License in political economics, Neuchâtel University, 1998
  • Collaboration as tax expert with Frôté & Partner SA
  • English
  • French
  • Restructuring
  • Buying and selling businesses
  • Tax management in real estate
  • Inheritances and donations
  • Occupational pensions
Imhof Michael

Imhof Michael

Partner, MLaw, Attorney at Law

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Born in 1986, Michael Imhof joined Frôté & Partner SA in 2014. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Neuchâtel, and has extensive knowledge of commercial law. After graduating in law, he worked for 2 years with the main judicial authorities in the canton of Berne, before joining our law firm as a lawyer. His main area of practice is general litigation, with a specialization in corporate law. Michael Imhof is also a deputy member of the Canton of Berne Lawyers’ Supervisory Authority and an expert at the HEG-ARC. He practices mainly before the courts of the cantons of Bern, Vaud, Neuchâtel and Jura.

Training

  • Admission to the Bar of the Canton of Berne, 2014
  • Master of Business Law, University of Neuchâtel 2011
  • Law degree, University of Neuchâtel, 2009
  • Attorney-at-law in the Canton of Berne since 2014
  • Clerk to the Administrative Court of the Canton of Berne
  • Clerk to the Supreme Court of the Canton of Berne
  • ANB-Law
  • Clerk to the Regional Court Bernese Jura Seeland
  • HEG expert in business law
  • French
  • German
  • English
  • Commercial law
  • Company law
  • Contract law
  • Enforcement and bankruptcy law
  • Administrative law
  • Criminal law
  • Traffic law
  • Litigation

Codoni Vincent

Notary, Lawyer

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Born in 1964, Vincent Codoni was admitted to the Neuchâtel Bar in 1992 and to the Neuchâtel Bar in 1994. After having been associated with Jean-Patrice Hofner, since the latter’s retirement, he now runs his own firm, with its head office in Couvet in the Val-de-Travers, where his notary’s seal is located. On request, he also consults at the Neuchâtel offices of Etude Frôté & Partner SA. At present, Mr Codoni’s main role is that of notary.

Training

  • Neuchâtel notary’s certificate, 1994
  • Neuchâtel bar exam, 1992
  • French
  • Italian
  • Real estate transfers
  • Corporate law, foundations, restructuring
  • Estates, wills and inheritance contracts
  • Marriage contracts

Gagnebin D'Onofrio Rachel

lic. iur., Jurist

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Rachel Gagnebin D’Onofrio joined the firm in 1999. Her practice focuses mainly on liability law and the calculation of damages, as well as other areas such as corporate law, in which she has been able to develop her skills.

Training

  • Law Degree mention “très bien”, University of Neuchâtel, 1999
  • Jurist with Frôté & Partner SA, Biel and Neuchâtel since 1999
  • Jurist, Office de recouvrement et d’avances des contributions d’entretien, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1997-1998
  • French
  • German
  • English
  • Knowledge of Italian and Spanish
  • Social Security law
  • Liability law
  • Corporate law (including management of Secretariats of Executive Boards)
  • Notarial law
  • Data privacy law
  • Translations (German-French)
  • Member of the Swiss Lawyers’ Society
Fromaigeat Nolwenn

Fromaigeat Nolwenn

Partner, Notary

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Nolwenn Fromaigeat joined Frôté & Partner SA in 2017, first as an intern and then as a legal associate. Since 2020, she has worked as an associate notary in our firm.

Training

  • Licensed as a Notary in the Canton of Bern, 2019
  • Master of Law, University of Neuchâtel, 2015
  • Bachelor of Law, University of Neuchâtel, 2014
  • Notary with Frôté & Partner SA, since 2020
  • Trainee notary at Frôté & Partner, 2017-2019
  • Notary trainee with the Commercial Register of the Canton of Berne, 2017
  • Notary trainee at the Bernese Jura APEA, 2016
  • Notary trainee at the Land Registry of the Bernese Jura, 2016
  • French
  • German
  • English
  • Real estate transfers
  • Corporate law, foundations, restructuring
  • Estates, wills and inheritance contracts
  • Marriage contracts
  • Member of the Association of Bernese Notaries (ANB)

Tellan Vanessa

LL.M., Lawyer

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Vanessa Tellan joined Frôté & Partner SA in 2018, first as a trainee and then as a legal associate. Since 2020, she has been working as a lawyer at our firm.

Training

  • Admitted to the Bar of the Canton of Berne, 2020
  • LL.M., King’s College London, 2015-2016
  • Master of Law, University of Neuchâtel, 2014-2015
  • Bachelor of Law, University of Neuchâtel, 2010-2013
  • Lawyer with Frôté & Partner SA, Biel, since 2020
  • Associate at Frôté & Partner (20%), 2019-2020
  • Trainee lawyer at Frôté & Partner SA, 2018-2019
  • Trainee lawyer at the Regional Court Jura Bernois-Seeland, 2017-2018
  • French
  • English
  • Criminal law
  • Contract law
  • Tenancy law
  • Employment law
  • Family law
  • Civil procedure law
  • Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law
  • Building and planning law
Wälchli Melanie

Wälchli Melanie

Lawyer

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Melanie Wälchli is admitted to the bar in the Canton of Berne. Since 2022, she has worked as a lawyer at our firm.

Training

  • Admitted to the Bar of the Canton of Berne, 2022
  • Master of Laws (MLaw), University of Bern, 2018
  • Bachelor of Law (BLaw), University of Bern 2016
  • Lawyer with Frôté & Partner SA, Biel, since 2022
  • Trainee lawyer with the Child and Adult Protection Authority (APEA) of the Bern Mitteland-Nord region, 2020-2021
  • Trainee lawyer at the Prefecture of Biel, Nidau, 2019-2020
  • Trainee lawyer in a Biel law firm, 2018-2019
  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Criminal law
  • Employment law
  • Tenancy law
  • Family law
  • Civil procedure law
  • Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law
  • Social Security law
  • Administrative law
  • Member of the Swiss Bar Association
  • Member of the Bern Bar Association
  • Member of the Solothurn Lawyers’ Association