Prof. Dr. Peter Nobel †

Peter Nobel was a leading national and international Swiss business lawyer. His practice focused on Swiss and European corporate law, banking and stock exchange law, and finance and capital markets law. He also represented clients in proceedings before Swiss and European authorities and courts as well as before national and international arbitration tribunals, and also acted as an arbitrator himself.

The “Handelszeitung” referred to Peter Nobel as the “doyen of business lawyers”.

In 1982, Peter Nobel founded his own law firm in Zurich, which later merged into Nobel & Hug. Between 1980 and 1997, he was a substitute judge at the Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich, regularly as a judge rapporteur. From 1998 until the end of 2015, he was a judge at the Commercial Court of Zurich. Peter Nobel was also a member of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission, the preceding authority of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA, between 1988 and 2000. In 1984 he was appointed honorary professor and in 1997 associate professor for private, commercial and business law at the University of St. Gallen, where he was also director at the Institute for European Law until 2010. In 2004, Peter Nobel founded the Master of Law and Economics (“MLE”) programme at the University of St. Gallen. From 2007 to 2012, he was full professor ad personam of Swiss and international commercial and business law at the University of Zurich. He was also Chairman of the Editorial Board of SZW (Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht, Zurich) from 1995 to 2013.

Peter Nobel has written over 30 books and around 250 articles on Swiss, European, and international stock corporation, financial market, capital market, corporate, banking law and arbitration.

Peter Nobel was also connected with culture. He was the executor of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s will. With his wife Annette, he has built up the extensive art collection “Press Art”.