Profile
Ph.D. IN LAW
SPECIALIST SBA FAMILY LAW
MEDIATOR SBA
CEDR ACCREDITED MEDIATOR
Florian Chaudet joined CBWM Avocats in 2002. He is active in two main areas: family office, including family or estate planning, regionally or internationally, as well as commercial law and business counsel. Florian Chaudet has a long-standing practice in negotiation and has successfully completed the mediator training organised by the Swiss Bar Association in collaboration with an academic course director, as well as the Mediator Skills Training International Accreditation Programme of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (located in London); he is also active in the field of mediation and can act either as a mediator or as counsel to a client involved in a mediation process, in either French or English.
After working as an ad hoc clerk of the Court and as Assistant at Lausanne university, and obtaining his Ph.D. and his Bar exam in 2001, Mr Florian Chaudet spent a year in England to improve his practice of legal English, including contract drafting in the banking field. Mr Florian Chaudet was a member and secretary of the committee of an International School between 2004 and 2010 and of a foundation board (music school) from 2012 to 2016 ; he was also director of a company active in wine business between 2005 and 2021. He is presently chair of a society aimed at Vaud canton lakes shoreline protection and of the SBA (Swiss Bar Association) Specialized commission “Certified Specialist Family Law”. He was also a member of an association committee aiming at a mountain resort preservation.
ACTIVITIES
- From 2008 Partner at CBWM Avocats
- From 2002 Associate at CBWM Avocats
- 1999-2001 Legal trainee (Baumgartner, Wellauer, Lei Ravello et Diserens law firm)
- 1996 – 1998 Assistant to Professor Guy Mustaki, University of Lausanne, HEC, for « Concepts and principles of law »
- 1996 – 1998 Ad hoc clerk of the District Court of Lausanne
TRAINING
- 2013 C.A.S family law
- 2001 Attorney
- 2001 Ph.D. in Law from the University of Lausanne
- 1995 Law degree