Dessemontet & Ghosn

Mr. Nader Ghosn

Nader Ghosn obtained his Master's degree in Law in 1993. For over a decade, he acted as law clerk for the district courts as well as for the Court of Appeal of the Canton of Vaud. His work for various authorities, such as the Appeal Court for Debt Collection and Bankruptcy or the Court of Appeal for Administrative Matters and Public Law, enabled him to gain in depth knowledge of several domains. He practices the bar in Lausanne since 2007.

Years of experience allow him to assist his clients in numerous matters, in particular commercial law and contracts, real estate (law of property, various forms of properties, liens), and inheritance law. He also practices divorce and separation, as well as administrative law. He protects his clients in criminal proceedings and traffic law.

Aside from helping his clients in court proceedings, Nader also offers broader counsel, legal opinions and drafts and analyzes contracts.

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Dr. Raphaël Dessemontet

Raphael Dessemontet practises the Bar since 2005. After obtaining his license equivalent to a LL.M at Fribourg University in 2002, he was awarded a PhD degree in 2005 for his dissertation “Consortium Contracts and their Termination in Swiss Law” which he wrote under the direction of Professor Pierre Tercier. He acquired an international education through a LL.M. at McGill University.

Besides corporate Law and construction and real estate Law with which he got familiar during his doctorate and his practise in an international law firm, Raphael is also at ease with contract Law. He wrote on Obligation Law in the “Abrégé de Jurisprudence”, a yearly digest of cases. He enriched his experience in contracts by working as a secretary for several Arbitral Tribunals in ad hoc or institutional proceedings. He also gives classes on Obligation, Company and Labor Law to candidates to the Swiss federal diploma of specialist in finance and accounting.

Raphael also enjoys working on intellectual property. He had the opportunity to work as an assistant for the publication of the intellectual property case reports of the “Journal des Tribunaux” law review. He assisted in rendering about thirty Arbitral sentences in OMPI procedures on domain names and participated in a European wide research on patents in small and medium enterprises. He also gave classes on IP to the students of the Fribourg School of Multimedia and Arts.

He was responsible for the Intellectual Property cases digest of the “Abrégé de Jurisprudence”, and now teaches Intelelctual Property Law at the School of Business and Engineering Vaud, a branch of the Univeresty of Applied Science.

Raphael’s mother tongue is French. He speaks fluent English and good German.

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