Livia Koller
Attorney-at-law, M.A. HSG, LL.M., adjunct lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and at OST - Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
Livia Koller gained initial work experience in the legal area as a trainee at the legal department of a private bank in St. Gallen. After completing her legal studies at the University of St. Gallen, she passed the bar exam in St. Gallen in 2015. Starting from 2016, she has been working as an attorney-at-law in a leading commercial law firm in Zurich and Geneva (corporate and real estate team) and most recently in a larger commercial law firm in St Gallen.
In 2018, she successfully completed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Business Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and passed with distinction. In 2023, she successfully completed the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) Litigation – Civil Litigation IRP-HSG.
Her practice focuses on contract law, corporate and real estate law, in particular the structuring of commercial relationships and transactions. She is an adjunct lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and at OST (Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences).
Expertise
- Vertrauen in die Höhe der Akontozahlungen für Nebenkosten, in: AJP 4/2023, 409-411 (with Franziska Pertek) (a paper on the protection of tenant's reliance in the amount of payments on account for ancillary costs)
- § 35 Gründungsmängel und Rechtsfolgen, in: Theus-Simoni F., Hauser I., Bärtschi H. (Herausgeber), Handbuch Schweizer Aktienrecht (506-515). Basel: Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag (with Sarah Luber) (a chapter on defects at incorporation of a company limited by shares and their consequences)