Marc Bernheim
Dr. iur. Attorney-at-Law, LL.M. | Partner
marc.bernheim@staiger.law | +41 (0)58 387 80 00 | 
Marc Bernheim is a proven expert in restructuring, insolvency and debt enforcement law. He heads the restructuring / insolvency department at STAIGER together with his partner Daniel Hunkeler. Marc Bernheim has many years of experience as an administrator in judicial debt restructuring proceedings, as a liquidator/extraordinary official bankruptcy liquidator and as a debtor or creditor representative in bankruptcy and debt restructuring proceedings.
Having more than twenty years of practice in the field of energy law, he is a leading advisor and representative in this area of law.
Marc Bernheim’s area of practicealso includes commercial litigation and arbitration, in particular in the areas of banking and real estate law.
In addition, Marc Bernheim is active as executor of estates and as trustee of charitable foundations.
“Marc Bernheim is very approachable, responsive and practical.”
legal500
“Marc Bernheim is a reliable professional.”
legal500
Practice Areas
Litigation
Arbitration
Restructuring / Insolvency
Energy Law
Financial Markets Law-Enforcement
Languages
German, English, Italian, French
| 1995 | Partner at STAIGER Attorneys at Law Ltd |
| 1993 | Doctor of Law, University of Zurich |
| 1992 – 1993 | Master of European Community Law, LL.M. College of Europe, Bruges |
| 1989 – 1994 | Associate at Gayler, Hegetschweiler & Partner, Zurich |
| 1989 | Admission to the Bar, Canton of Zurich |
| 1987 – 1988 | Legal clerk, District Court, Horgen |
| 1986 | Licentiatus iuris, University of Zurich |
| 1981 – 1986 | Law School, University of Zurich |
- Zurich Bar Association
- IBA, International Bar Association
- Swiss Bar Association
- Swiss Arbitration Association
- Swiss Association for Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Law
- International Association of Jewish Attorneys and Lawyers
- Swiss-Israel Chamber of Commerce
- Insol Europe
- AEEC, Associated Euopean Energy Consultants
Basler Kommentar zum Bundesgesetz über Schuldbetreibung und Konkurs, Staehelin/Bauer/Lorandi [Hrsg.], Kommentierung der Art. 151 – 158 SchKG
November 2021, 3. Auflage
Der Sachwalter im Nachlassverfahren
Oktober 2021 - ZZZ/PCEF 2021 Heft 55, 663-669
Das Stillhalteabkommen - insolvenzrechtliche Aspekte
Juni 2021, Die aktienrechtliche Sanierung, hrsg. von Thomas Sprecher, Europa Institut, Zürich 2021, 93-120
Der Sanierungsbeitrag
Juni 2019 - Jusletter 24. Juni 2019
Kurzkommentar zum Schuldbetreibungs- und Konkursgesetz
2014 - 2. Auflage
Paulianische Anfechtung - Auswirkungen der Beweislastverteilung aus beratender und forensischer Sicht
Dezember 2014 - Sanierung und Insolvenz von Unternehmen VI, hrsg. von Thomas Sprecher, Europa Institut, Zürich 2014, 7-35
Rechtshängigkeit und im Zusammenhang stehende Verfahren nach dem Lugano-Übereinkommen
1994 - Schweizerische Juristenzeitung
Finanzierung von Grundstückkäufen durch Personen im Ausland
1993 - Schweizer Schriften zum Bankenrecht (Dissertation)