Peyrot, Schlegel & GyörffyAttorneys at Law
Attorneys at Law · Zürich · Buchs SG

Peyrot, Schlegel & Györffy

Dr. Paul Peyrot · Dr. Urs Schlegel · Viktor Györffy

We are a law firm with offices in Zurich and Buchs (Canton of St. Gallen). Our practice focuses on business law and private law. Our clients are companies and private individuals from Switzerland and abroad.

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The Firm

Experience, Focus and Efficiency

Experience

Our firm has been in existence since 1975. Together, our partners have more than 100 years of experience.

This experience forms the basis for advising and representing our clients.

Focus

Our partners concentrate on their preferred areas of practice and attach great importance to high-quality work.

Our practice is both national and international. We maintain a select network of foreign correspondent lawyers with whom we work on a regular basis. We are also members of various national and international associations of lawyers and jurists.

Efficiency

Our structures allow us to handle mandates flexibly and efficiently.

In doing so, we pay attention to a balanced cost-benefit ratio.

Practice Areas

Our Practice Areas

  • Liability and Insurance Law
  • Contract Law, Tenancy Law, Employment Law
  • Corporate Law and Law of Business Names
  • Criminal Law and White-Collar Crime
  • Marriage and Cohabitation Law
  • Inheritance Law
  • Property Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Banking and Financial Markets Law
  • Litigation
  • Transport and Traffic Law, CMR
  • Trademark Law
  • Notarial Deeds
  • International Business Law
  • Fundamental Rights/European Law
  • Data Protection, Protection of Personality
Partners

Our Partners

Dr. Paul Peyrot, LL.M.

Dr. Paul Peyrot, LL.M.

Partner · Profile

Beethovenstrasse 47, CH-8002 Zürich Phone +41 43 500 55 70 · Fax +41 43 500 55 71 Email peyrot@psg-law.ch

Admission and Memberships

  • Attorney at law, registered in the Bar Register of the Canton of Zurich
  • Admitted to the bar since 1994
  • Member of the Zurich Bar Association (https://www.zav.ch)
  • Lecturer in Business Law at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)
  • Lecturer in Business Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
  • Lecturer in Business Law at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)

Education

  • Law studies at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)
  • Doctorate in Law from the University of St. Gallen (HSG)
  • Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Virginia School of Law
  • Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)

Professional Experience

  • Court clerk at the Cantonal Court of St. Gallen
  • Attorney at a major business law firm in Zurich

Preferred Areas of Practice

  • Law for entrepreneurs and companies
  • Law for founders and foundations
  • Litigation

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Basic Dutch
Dr. iur. Urs Schlegel

Dr. iur. Urs Schlegel

Partner · Profile

Bahnhofstrasse 7, CH-9471 Buchs SG Phone +41 81 756 55 45 · Fax +41 81 756 55 58 Email schlegel@psg-law.ch

Admission and Memberships

  • Attorney at law, registered in the Bar Register of the Canton of St. Gallen
  • Admitted to the bar since 1998
  • Member of the St. Gallen Bar Association
  • Notary public (Canton of St. Gallen)

Education

  • Law studies at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)
  • Assistant at the Institute of European Law and in public law
  • Bar examination of the Canton of St. Gallen

Professional Experience

  • Lawyer at a law firm in St. Gallen and at the District Court of Oberrheintal
  • Founded an IT company in the legal sector
  • Founded and manages his own law firm in Buchs SG

Preferred Areas of Practice

  • Contract law
  • Corporate law and law of business names
  • Intellectual property and technology law
  • Banking and financial markets law
  • Litigation and arbitration

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French
lic. iur. Viktor Györffy

lic. iur. Viktor Györffy

Partner · Profile

Beethovenstrasse 47, CH-8002 Zürich Phone +41 43 500 55 70 · Fax +41 43 500 55 71 Email gyoerffy@psg-law.ch

Admission and Memberships

Education

  • Law studies at the University of Zurich

Professional Experience

  • Lawyer in the legal and recourse service of the Social Insurance Institution of the Canton of St. Gallen
  • Attorney (partner) at a law firm in Zurich

Preferred Areas of Practice

  • Liability and social insurance law
  • Fundamental rights/European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
  • Data protection, protection of personality
  • Contract law, corporate law
  • Criminal law

Languages

  • German
  • English
Staff

Our Staff

Laxcika Florence AngeloLegal Associate, B.A. HSG in Law and Economicsangelo@psg-law.ch
Hesekiel Carrasco
Hesekiel CarrascoLegal Associate, B.A. HSG in Law and Economicscarrasco@psg-law.ch
Daphne Fürst
Daphne FürstLegal Associate, B.A. HSG in Law and Economicsfuerst@psg-law.ch
Nadja Brunner
Nadja BrunnerOffice Manageroffice@psg-law.ch
Daniela Litscher
Daniela LitscherOffice Manageroffice@psg-law.ch
Notary

Notary Services in Buchs

Dr. Urs Schlegel, attorney at law, offers the following notarial services at the Buchs (SG) office:

Notarial deeds

  • Marital agreements
  • Wills and testamentary dispositions
  • Establishment of foundations
  • Guarantee (surety) undertakings
  • All notarial deeds in commercial register matters

Certifications

  • Authenticity of signatures
  • Authenticity of copies or transcripts
  • Authenticity of calendar dates, translations or other documents
Notary fees
Publications

Publications and Lectures

Dr. Paul Peyrot, LL.M.

Die Treuepflicht des Verwaltungsrats PDF, 1357 KB
Strafbestimmungen im neuen Datenschutzrecht PDF, 2101 KB
Das Kreuz mit dem Kreuz PDF, 67 KB
Die Informationspflichten der Konzernobergesellschaft gegenüber der Konzernuntergesellschaft Doctoral thesis, St. Gallen 2003 (Prof. Dr. Jean Nicolas Druey/Prof. Dr. Christian J. Meier-Schatz), published as an e-dissertation on Swisslex PDF, 1033 KB
Expert Determination of Competition Issues in: Zuberbühler/Oetiker (eds.), “Practical Aspects of Arbitrating EC Competition Law”, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2007 PDF, 178 KB
Acquiescence (tolerance) to infringement of Intellectual Property Rights Co-author of the National Report on Q192, AIPPI Congress 2006 PDF, 37 KB
Contracts regarding Intellectual Property Rights (assignments and licenses) and third parties Co-author of the National Report on Q190, AIPPI Congress 2006, in: sic! 7/8/2006, p. 539 et seq. PDF, 486 KB
Referat: Die Informationspflicht der Konzernmuttergesellschaft gegenüber ihrer Tochter Lecture for the Research Centre for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen, 2000 PDF, 123 KB
Referat: Rechtsansprüche auf Information eCH Records Management working group, Bern 2004 PDF, 123 KB
Referat: Why Audit Your IP Rights? Tracing and Identifying IP Rights in Organisations AIJA Congress, Amsterdam 2005 PDF, 91 KB
Referat: Asset Tracing and Recovery in Switzerland Lecture at the annual meeting of the German-American Lawyers’ Association, Berlin 2006 PDF, 34 KB
Referat: Legal aspects associated with setting up your headquarters or principal company in Switzerland Greater Zurich Area and NEXIA International, London 2006 PDF, 148 KB
Referat: Let’s fight. Minority shareholders and capital investors AIJA Congress, Geneva 2006 PDF, 94 KB
Referat: The Public Company: The Burden of Being Public and the Pain to Go Private PDF, 194 KB
Alternativen zur Prozessfinanzierung PDF, 1783 KB
Expert Determination of Antitrust Issues PDF, 102 KB
Haftung beim Internationalen Strassentransport PDF, 2424 KB

Dr. iur. Urs Schlegel

Editorial 2 PDF, 1032 KB
Editorial Published in “mandant” no. 3/2009 PDF, 971 KB
Connecting people? The judgment of the District Court of Werdenberg-Sargans of 14 June 2004 on which the discussion is based was published in full as Jurius, Dialer-Opfer muss nicht zahlen, in: Jusletter 8 November 2004. PDF, 47 KB
Ökonomische Grenzen staatlicher Leistungen Doctoral thesis, St. Gallen 2017 PDF, 4494 KB
CMR – Haftung bei internationalem Strassentransport Handelszeitung no. 24, 13–19 June 2007 PDF, 31 KB
Haftung beim internationalen Strassentransport Journal of the German-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, no. 4/April 2009 PDF, 481 KB

lic. iur. Viktor Györffy

Quellenschutz im Strafrecht published in: medialex 6/16 PDF, 195 KB
Allmächtiger Staat, rechtlose Bürger extended version of an article written with Christof Hugentobler and published in plädoyer 6/15 PDF, 26 KB
Mehr Überwachung im Strafprozess published in: plädoyer 2/14 PDF, 2020 KB
Eine Bürgerbewegung ist gefragt published in: infoclio.ch, Enrico Natale, Eliane Kurmann, Jan Baumann and Christine Stettler (eds.), Datenschutz und Geschichtswissenschaften, 2015 PDF, 89 KB
Contact

Contact

Law Office

Zurich

Peyrot, Schlegel & Györffy
Beethovenstrasse 47
CH-8002 Zürich
Phone
+41 43 500 55 70
Fax
+41 43 500 55 71
Email
peyrot@psg-law.ch
gyoerffy@psg-law.ch
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Law Office

Buchs

Peyrot, Schlegel & Györffy
Bahnhofstrasse 7
CH-9471 Buchs SG
Phone
+41 81 756 55 45
Fax
+41 81 756 55 58
Email
schlegel@psg-law.ch
Open location in Google Maps (external website)