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Michael Lepper

Legal Director
Attorney-at-law, M.A. in International Trade

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Languages: French, English, German

Michael Lepper is a member of the Eversheds Sutherland trade, corporate, employment and real estate teams.

Before joining the firm, Michael completed an internship at the law firm 100 Rhône Avocats in Geneva. His practice areas also include insolvency and recovery, international arbitration, real-estate law, commercial law and contracts and white-collar crime.

Michael completed two summer internships at the firms Kane & Kessler P.C. based in New York (USA) and ZPG (Ziegler, Poncet, Grumbach, Carrard, Heinis & Lüscher) in Geneva (2009). He then worked at the French bank BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA in Geneva in various departments with a focus in commodity finance (2011) before joining Credit Suisse in 2013 in Zurich and Geneva as an account manager with a portfolio of clients active in the trading of crude oil and petroleum products.

 

Michael is the chairman of the Commodity Trading Association (CTA) whose main purpose is to represent its members in the trading and shipping industry in Geneva and worldwide. He is also a member of the Ordre des Avocats (OdA) in Geneva and of the Swiss Bar Association (SBA).

Michael studied law at the University of Geneva and obtained his Bachelor’s degree in 2009 and a Master of Law in Economic Laws in 2010. He completed a second Master in International Trading, Commodity Finance & Shipping at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Geneva in 2013.

He was admitted to the bar in Switzerland in 2018.

Michael Lepper

Legal Director

Attorney-at-law, M.A. in International Trade

Michael Lepper

Legal Director

Attorney-at-law, M.A. in International Trade

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