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