Luc Hafner

Lawyers

Luc Hafner

Counsel

Phone 

+41 22 707 18 00

Fax 

+41 22 707 18 11

Languages 

French, English, German
 

Expertise 

Luc Hafner specialises in business, estate planning and succession law. He advises Swiss and foreign high-net-worth clients as a lawyer, director, trustee or protector. He has become a reference in the field of private clients, at an international and multi-jurisdictional level.
 
Luc Hafner has been Chairman of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR) and he has led the renovation of the Museum.
 
He chaired the military tribunals and was in charge for trials delegated by the International Criminal Tribunal of The Hague regarding war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
 

Memberships 

Geneva Business Law Association
Swiss Lawyers Federation
Geneva Bar Association

Education and Professional Experience 

 
1969 Legal intern at Borel & Barbey
1972 Geneva Bar
1973 Associate at Burditt & Calkins, Chicago
1975 Partner at Hafner & De Pfyffer
1987 Partner at Borel & Barbey
1984 Colonel (Swiss Army)
1996 Chief of the 1st Division's Court
2001 - 2008 Chief judge of the 1st Military Appeal Court (war crime cases of former Yugoslavia and Rwanda)
2008 - 2016 Chairman of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR)

Publications 

Swiss section of International Charitable Giving edited by Clive Cutbill, Alison Paines and Murray Hallam,
Withers LPP