Christine Dorothea Beusch-Liggenstorfer

Background

Christine Beusch-Liggenstorfer was born in 1955. Her education and professional career developed within Switzerland, where she studied at the University of Bern and later practiced law in Zurich.

Education

Beusch-Liggenstorfer studied law at the University of Bern, earning the licentiate in law (lic. iur.) in 1979 and the doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) in 1982. The University of Bern was founded in 1834 as the university of the canton of Bern and is one of Switzerland's long-established universities. The licentiate and the doctorate are the principal law degrees of the Swiss system, with the doctorate representing advanced scholarly study.

Admission to the Swiss bar followed in 1983, after she had completed her doctoral studies. Her legal training therefore preceded her practice in the Zurich legal market.

Career

Beusch-Liggenstorfer's documented career is based in Zurich, the largest hub for law firms in Switzerland. Sources describe her as a partner of ASSOCIA TES, a Zurich firm for which she worked in that capacity. Earlier in her career she worked at Schellenberg & Haissly in Zurich, where her practice included contract law, travel and tourism law, immigration law, work permits, and inheritance law.

She later became associated with Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd, a Zurich law firm with its office on Löwenstrasse, where she served as of counsel. Within that firm she worked with the employment practice, and she belonged to the team serving the hotel and leisure industry. Together with a colleague from the employment team, she contributed to the firm's Swiss legal advice to GCA Corporation, a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed investment bank, on its acquisition of Stella EOC.

In litigation, she represented the Interkantonale Landeslotterie, an intercantonal lottery based in Basel, in appeals before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court in 2001 and 2003. Her practice areas, as recorded in Swiss legal directories, included commercial law, contract law, administrative law, immigration law, civil law, and inheritance law.

Membership

Beusch-Liggenstorfer is a member of the Swiss Bar Association, the professional organization of independent attorneys in Switzerland. Founded in 1898 and seated in Bern, the association represents the reputation and interests of the Swiss legal profession before federal authorities and international bodies, and promotes the continuing training of its members. It also sets professional rules that bind its members.

She is also a member of the Zurich Bar Association, which forms the largest section of the Swiss Bar Association. The Zurich association serves independent lawyers in the canton of Zurich, promoting their continuing education, collegiality, and compliance with professional rules.

• Swiss Bar Association , Switzerland

• Zurich Bar Association , Switzerland

References

• Dr.iur. Christine Beusch-Liggenstorfer Zürich im Schweizer Anwaltvergleich Swiss lawyer directory entry giving her birth year, practice areas, languages, Swiss Bar Association membership, and Zurich office address.