Patrik Odermatt

Lawyer | Notary | Partner

Patrik Odermatt specializes in securing and enforcing the interests of creditors. He advises and represents companies, entrepreneurs and authorities in Switzerland and abroad in contract, commercial and procedural law. He is regularly called upon as an expert in debt enforcement and bankruptcy matters.

Patrik Odermatt has a long track record of success in innovative and complex top transactions/cases for prestigious clients.

Clients appreciate his commercial business acumen, his customer and solution orientation, his ability to react quickly and handle dossiers, his strong negotiating skills, his holistic way of thinking and his pragmatism.

Patrik Odermatt graduated from the University of St. Gallen in 2005. He then worked in Berlin for Professor von Pufendorf, at the Cantonal Court of Zug and as a trainee, lawyer and notary at Bär & Karrer in Zug and Zurich. In 2008, Patrik Odermatt was admitted to the Zug Bar and authorized to notarize for attorneys in the Canton of Zug.

Patrik Odermatt publishes regularly in professional journals and teaches prospective lawyers at various universities and institutions.

Expertise
  • Process management
  • Insolvency law
  • Contract and corporate law
  • Liability law
  • Criminal law
  • Restructuring, reorganization, liquidation
  • Succession planning and estate planning
  • Notary’s office, contract drafting
  • Plant construction and waste disposal systems: contract design and legal enforcement in Germany and abroad; group structuring and corporate housekeeping
  • Bank: Permanent representative before all Swiss courts for the enforcement of claims.
  • Construction group: Advising and representing the owners in the sale of shares.
  • Procurement: Advice on submissions and tendering.
  • Family business: Structuring and representation in civil, criminal and administrative litigation to secure and develop the ownership structure for a wide variety of families, including several families of the 300 Richest Swiss as well as wealthy families from Europe and North/Central America, Asia as well as the Caribbean, the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant.
  • Airline: Enforcement of claims in international damages litigation.
  • Receivables management: contract drafting for the purchase and management of various receivables portfolios in the three-digit million range.
  • Global NGO headquartered in Switzerland: contract drafting and permanent law enforcement.
  • Real estate: ongoing advice in connection with the raising of loans and the management of loan assets of several PropCos.
  • Real estate group: purchase and sale of land, properties and projects.
  • International schools: Permanent legal representative for contract drafting and litigation, compliance, structuring, corporate housekeeping
  • Investor consortium: Advising on the acquisition of strategic minority and majority stakes with purchase and exit options
  • Cable network operators: enforcement of claims throughout Switzerland.
  • Truck equipment supplier: Advice and representation in contract and group drafting, defense and enforcement of claims; contract drafting and representation in strategic acquisitions
  • Fashion company: Advising and representing a leading European omnichannel multi-brand fashion retailer with over 13,000 employees; contract and corporate law structuring and relocation: corporate housekeeping
  • Private equity: Advice on the acquisition and merger of companies.
  • Commodity trader: representation in various multinational arbitration proceedings, drafting of contracts and enforcement of claims; corporate housekeeping.
  • Software group: Advising and representing the seller to a large IT group.
  • Solar company: Enforcement of claims based on a cross-border framework agreement in a schedule of claims procedure against the bankruptcy estate of the purchaser for CHF 630 million.
  • Hospitals: enforcement of claims with sometimes sensitive data in Switzerland and abroad.
  • Subsidiaries of foreign groups: contract drafting, corporate housekeeping, representation before courts
  • Since 2021: Patented trustee, patent holder in the register of trustees of the Canton of Lucerne
  • Since 2011: Founding partner, lawyer & notary at Kaiser Odermatt & Partner AG
  • 2009-2011: Attorney & Notary at Bär & Karrer AG
  • 2008: Notary Public of the Canton of Zug
  • 2007: Auditor at the Cantonal Court of Zug
  • 2006-2007: Substitute at Bär & Karrer AG
  • 2005: Master of Law (MLaw), University of St. Gallen
  • 2004: Trainee with Pufendorf Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft
  • 2004: Bachelor of Law (BLaw), University of St. Gallen
  • 2001: Matura (major: Economics & Law), Institute Montana Zugerberg
  • Various board memberships
  • President Montana Club Zugerberg, Zug
  • Examination expert Lawbility (notarization law)
  • Lecturer Lawbility (Civil Procedure, Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Law)
  • BGE leading decision regarding no interpretation “pro debitore”
  • BGE leading decision regarding no specification of the security deposit
  • Swiss Bar Association
  • Registered in the Register of Attorneys of the Canton of Zug
  • Lawyers’ Association of the Canton of Zug
  • JAAZ – Young Attorneys of Central Switzerland
  • JusClub Zug, member
  • Dispute over party compensation, The criterion of necessity in professional representation for determining party compensation (AJP 7/2018, pp. 979-989)
  • Shell trading from a civil, criminal and notarization law perspective – stocktaking and law reform (Reprax: Zeitschrift zur Handelsregisterpraxis, 2021 (3). 207-238. ISSN 1424-3628)
  • Insolvency, capital loss and over-indebtedness in the revised company law – An overview of Art. 725 et seq. of the revised company law of June 19, 2020 (Zuger Steuer Praxis, 2021 (77). 19-30)
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