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Selina Müller assists national and multinational companies – ranging from start-ups and independent entrepreneurs to SMEs and large companies – and individuals on aspects of business law, with a focus on employment law and social security.

Selina Müller is an SBA-Certified Specialist in Employment Law, advising clients on drafting and reviewing contracts and on implementing compensation plans, collective dismissals and social plans. She has extensive experience in company transfers, mergers and acquisitions, lease of services cross-border employee transfers and international immigration processes. She assists her clients in transaction settlement negotiations, as well as in court and arbitration proceedings. Selina Müller also serves as a conciliation judge of Geneva.

FIELDS OF SPECIALISATION

EMPLOYMENT LAW & IMMIGRATION LAW

Drafting and negotiating employment contracts, handbooks and policies
Drafting and negotiating termination agreements
Drafting and negotiating expatriation agreements
Drafting and negotiating profit-sharing and compensation plans
Advice on transfers in connection with mergers and acquisitions
Advice on private placements and lease of services
Advising on competition matters
Arranging internal investigations
Protection of personality
Obtaining work and residence permits
Advice on occupational pensions and social security
Administrative procedures concerning employees of the State or autonomous public bodies
Platform economy (contracts for online service platforms, administrative procedures and permits for staff leasing)
Strategic management of projects and litigation

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COMMERCIAL & CORPORATE LAW

Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts
Drafting contractual documentation (including shareholders’ agreements)
Boards of directors and senior management
Advice to start-ups and SMEs

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LITIGATION & ARBITRATION

Court and arbitration proceedings
Enforcement of court decisions and debt collection procedures
Recognition and exequatur of foreign court and arbitration decisions

EDUCATION/CAREER

2024
Partner, Junod Halpérin

2017 – 2024
Partner, Ming Halpérin Burger Inaudi

2018 – Présent
Conciliation Judge, Labour Court, Geneva

2016
SBA-Certified Specialist in Employment Law

2010
Admission to Geneva Bar

2008 – 2010
Trainee lawyer, Ming Halpérin Burger Inaudi, Geneva

2008
Master's degree in Economic Law, University of Geneva

2007
Baccalaureate in law, University of Geneva

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Committee of the Association romande des spécialistes en droit du travail

Member of the Board of the FAVIA Foundation, the pension fund of the Geneva Bar Association

- Member of various professional associations: Geneva Bar Association (OdA), Swiss Bar Association (FSA)

Publications

Droit du travail

2023

SELINA MULLER

Représentation d’un client devant le Tribunal fédéral, tranchant une question procédurale de principe – TF 4A_412/2022 du 11 mai 2023 (publication prévue).

Droit du travail

2017

SELINA MULLER

Le droit de négocier collectivement les conditions de travail : emploi privé et fonction publique - in: Panorama III en droit du travail / Rémy Wyler (éd.). - Stämpfli, 2017, pp. 509-540

Conferences

Droit du travail

2018

Interview – Bilan – Femmes Leaders, « La loi sur l’égalité doit-elle être appliquée plus strictement ? »

Droit du travail

2018

Interview RTS, « Enfants youtubers, une activité lucrative qui pose notamment la question de sa légalité »

Droit du travail

2017

Conférence du Jeune Barreau sur le thème : "L'incapacité de travail dans tous ses états"