Vincent Carron

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Vincent Carron is a Partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Geneva office, where he heads the Employment Law Group.

Expertise

Employment

Experience

Extensive experience representing clients before the labor courts and advising them on all employment law matters (including review of contracts, employee handbooks, termination agreements, unilateral and collective dismissals, business transfers and assistance in M&A transactions, structure of severance payments, aspects of international employee transfers, international social security coordination, lease of services, restructuring of remuneration and bonus schemes, work schedule reductions, recording of working time, employer’s liability, due diligences)
Advising and representing clients in matters related to pension funds, covering both litigation and corporate aspects

Professional Experience

2012
Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer
2004
Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer
2002
Trainee Lawyer at Schellenberg Wittmer
2001
Teaching and research assistant at University of Fribourg
1999
Research assistant on a Swiss National Science Foundation Project on Public Procurement Remedies

Education and Admission

2008
Certified Specialist SBA Employment Law
2007
Bar Admission in New York
2006
LL.M., New York University
2004
Bar Admission in Switzerland
1998
lic. iur., University of Fribourg

Additional Professional Activities

Regular publications in his fields of specialization
Member of the European Employment Law Association
President of the West Switzerland Association of Employment Law Specialists
Vincent Carron is part of the Exam Committee in charge of the Geneva labour court judges’ oral exams, and has been teaching them some aspects of Swiss employment law