Vincent Brulhart

Lawyer

“Reading for fullness, speaking for certainty, writing for exactitude” (F. Bacon, 1612)

Specialised focus

Contract law, insurance contracts, financial market supervision and brokerage law, reinsurance, transfer of insurance portfolios, liability and social insurance law, product liability, occupational pensions, private international law, arbitration

Other activities

Professor of Insurance Law, Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, since 2003
Authorised arbitrator ARIAS France (Paris), since 2019
Member of various boards of directors
Member of various expert commissions and member of the editorial board of the journal HAVE/REAS, Zurich

Curriculum

1985	Licentiate in Law, University of Fribourg
1989	Admitted to the bar, Fribourg
1990	Head of Legal Department, Union Suisse, General Insurance Company
1993	Master in Comparative Law (LL.M.), University of Bonn (D)
1995	Head of Claims, Union Suisse, General Insurance Company
1997	Doctorate in Law, University of St. Gallen (dissertation on international jurisdiction in insurance matters)
2002	Habilitation and venia legendi, University of St. Gallen – habilitation thesis on the choice of the applicable law in private international law
2002	Various functions as member of the Executive Management (comité de la direction générale), Generali (Schweiz) Holding AG
2018	Partner in the law firm MCE, Lausanne
2026	Opening of the Lausanne office of Burkhalter Rechtsanwälte AG