Georg J. Wohl

Lic. iur. Attorney-at-Law, LL.M. | Partner  
georg.wohl@staiger.law | +41 (0)58 387 80 00 |

Georg J. Wohl has been specializing in restructuring, reorganization and insolvency law for over 15 years. He also specializes in corporate finance and M&A transactions.

Georg J. Wohl is regularly appointed by the competent courts as trustee in complex national and cross-border reorganization proceedings. He also advises companies or their creditors on out-of-court reorganization and restructuring near insolvency and has extensive experience in particular in consensual debt settlement as well as in prepacks, distressed M&A transactions and bridge financing.

In national and cross-border insolvency proceedings, Georg J. Wohl advises the competent authorities or creditors on all questions of enforcement law and the repatriation of assets, including attachments. He also has many years of experience as an extra-official bankruptcy liquidator.

Georg J. Wohl applies his knowledge and experience as a former compliance officer of a major bank to internal and regulatory investigations and audits, in particular by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA.

Practice Areas

Restructuring / Insolvency   
Corporate Law (Financing and M&A)  
Banking and Financial Markets Law (Compliance, DLT/Blockchain/Fintech) 
Financial Markets Law-Enforcement

Languages

German, English, French, Hungarian

2024Partner at STAIGER Attorneys at Law Ltd
Since 2023Lecturer HWZ Zurich for International Financial Market Law and Compliance
2020CAS Corporate Finance and M&A ZHAW Zurich
2020 - 2023Partner at Baur Hürlimann Ltd, Zurich
2019Certified Blockchain Expert Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Since 2018Lecturer ZHAW for Corporate Restructuring and Recovery
2013 - 2014Secondment to the FINMA, Bern
2012 - 2019Associate at Baur Hürlimann Ltd, Zurich
2010 - 2011Studies in European corporate law in Budapest and Heidelberg (LL.M.)
2008 - 2011Attorney-at-Law at a law firm, Basel
2008Admission to the Bar, Canton of Basel
2007Trainee at the Criminal Court of the Canton of Basel-Stadt
2006Trainee at at law firm, Zurich
2005lic. iur., University of Basel
  • Zurich Bar Association
  • Swiss Bar Association
  • Swiss Association for Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law
  • Swiss Turnaround Association