Markus Hämmerli

Partner | Attorney at Law
+41 43 443 00 96

Markus Hämmerli has extensive experience in the fields of liability, insurance and reinsurance law as well as international transport and forwarding law. He advises on legal issues and represents parties in negotiations and before all Swiss courts.

Markus Hämmerli owes his experience to his activities in various senior positions in claims management at a leading global industrial insurer as well as to his many years of responsibility for the worldwide claims management of a global logistics group.

Expertise

Liability, insurance and reinsurance law; business and product liability; professional liability and directors' and officers’ liability (D&O); financial lines (cyber and fidelity insurance); International forwarding, transport and logistics as well as advice on claims management issues.

Professional Experience

Since October 2022
Partner at BNS Attorneys at Law

2021 - 2022
Partner at Baudacci Nigg Stenberg

2020 - 2021
Consultant at Baudacci Nigg Stenberg

Many years of experience in international claims management at insurance and logistics groups: various senior positions in regional and global claims management at XL Insurance/Winterthur International; claims manager worldwide at Panalpina Management.

Education

Admitted to the Zurich Bar, 1992
Law degree (lic. iur.), University of Zurich, 1986

Memberships

Zürich Bar Association (ZAV), Professional practice group member for Liability and Insurance Law
Swiss Bar Association (SAV)
Zurich Lawyers' Association (ZJURV)
Swiss Society for Liability and Insurance Law (SGHVR)
Swiss Association for Aviation and Space Law (ASDA-SVLR)
Swiss Maritime Law Association (SVSR)
German Transportation Law Society (DGTR)

Publications

Die vernetzte Abwicklung von Versicherungsschäden im Zeichen der Globalisierung, in: Liber amicorum für Moritz W. Kuhn, Bern, 2009, S. 421 ff.
Rezension zu Haftung für Verspätungsschäden bei Gütertransporten von Dr. Vesna Polic Foglar, in: Strassenverkehr 1/2017, Zürich, S. 64 ff.

Languages

German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese

Admission

Admitted to represent parties before all Swiss courts and authorities; registered with the Bar Register of the Canton of Zurich