+41 22 849 60 40
mvilla@fbt.ch
Practice areas: Corporate and Commercial (Head of Practice), Banking and Finance
Languages: French, English, Italian, German
EXPERTISE
Marco Villa is a partner with FBT and a member of its Corporate and Banking and Finance groups. He is a leading contract and commercial law expert and specializes in corporate and commercial law. He is a former professor on contract and tort law at the University of Lausanne.
He advises individuals and companies of different sizes on domestic as well as cross-border legal issues, namely on banking and finance agreements, mergers and acquisitions, agency and distribution agreements and cooperation agreements. He has a broad experience in the field of private equity as well as in real estate law (transactions, leases, etc.)
Marco Villa is a frequent speaker at professional conferences on corporate and commercial law issues and the author of various publications in this field.
Since 2004
Partner, FBT Avocats SA, Geneva
2000-2004
Professor, University of Lausanne
1999
Admission to the New York Bar
1999
LL.M., University of Columbia, New York
1997
Admission to the Geneva Bar
1995-1997
Trainee Lawyer, Fasel Bochatay Tsimaratos, Geneva
1995
Ph. D., University of Lausanne
1994-1995
Court Clerk, Canton de Vaud Tribunals
1988-1993
Research Assistant, CEDIDAC, Corporate Law Department, University of Lausanne
1988
Law degree, University of Lausanne
Geneva Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Association genevoise du droit des affaires (AGDA)
Centre du droit de l’entreprise (CEDIDAC)
Geneva
Rue du 31-Décembre 47
P.O. Box 6120
CH – 1211 Geneva 6
Paris
4, avenue Hoche
F – 75008 Paris








