SELINA MULLER
ATTORNEY AT LAW, PARTNER
Member of the Geneva Bar
SBA-Certified Specialist in Employment Law
Conciliation Judge – Labour Court Geneva
Master's degree in Economic Law, University of Geneva
+41 22 839 70 00smuller@avocats.ch
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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.

areas of expertise

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

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

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

2025
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

Employment Law

2023
SELINA MULLER
Representation of a client before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, deciding a procedural question of principle - TF 4A_412/2022, 11 May 2023 (anticipated publication)
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Employment Law

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 (ed.). - Stämpfli, 2017, pp. 509-540
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Conferences

Employment Law

2018
RTS Interview , "Enfants youtubers, une activité lucrative qui pose notamment la question de sa légalité “
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Employment Law

2018
Interview – Bilan – Female Leaders, “La loi sur l’égalité doit-elle être appliquée plus strictement ?”
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Employement Law

2017
Jeune Barreau Conference on "L'incapacité de travail dans tous ses états”
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