Dr. Lucy Gordon
Legal Partner, LL.M., Certified Specialist SBA Tort and Insurance Law
Profile
Lucy Gordon-Vrba specializes in the field of insurance law. She advises insurance companies and insurance brokers in connection with regulatory and private law matters. She advises and represents clients before courts and arbitral tribunals in the areas of contract and corporate law. Furthermore, she engages in the areas of FinTech, InsurTech and Digital Economy. Dr. Gordon-Vrba also acts as an arbitrator and has published numerous articles on topics related to international procedural law.
Business activities
- Insurance and Liability Law
- Litigation and International Arbitration
- International and Swiss Contract, Business and Corporate Law
- Health Law and Medical Malpractise
- FinTech, InsurTech and Digital Economy
Education
- 2014
- Certified Specialist SBA Tort and Insurance Law
- 2007
- University of Zurich (Dr. iur.)
- 2005-2006
- Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School
- 2004
- Admitted to the New York Bar
- 2003
- Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
- 2000
- Admitted to the Zurich Bar
- 1997
- University of Zurich (lic. iur.)
Languages
- German
- English
- French
- Czech
- Slovak
Practical Experience
- 2008-2010
- Attorney at two large US law firms in New York
- 2007
- Associate at a commercially orientated large Swiss law firm in Zurich
- 2003-2005
- Associate at a commercially orientated large Swiss law firm in Zurich and Geneva
- 2000-2002
- Associate at a commercially orientated large Swiss law firm in Zurich and Geneva
- 1999
- Trainee at a commercially orientated large law firm in Zurich
- 1998
- Judicial Clerk at the District Court of Zurich
Memberships
- Swiss Bar Association (SAV)
- Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
- New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)
- Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
- Swiss Association of Tort and Insurance Law (SGHVR)
Services
Contact
Secretariat
Susanne Jöhr
Assistant
Email
From the magazine
Blockchain meets real estate
Distributed ledger technology (Blockchain) is predicted to have a lasting impact on financial, logistic and trade markets. Its underlying decentralized structure ensures immutability, permanence and universal accessibility. Furthermore, distributed ledger technology enables its users to transfer assets in a cheap and fast way. As a result, blockchain technology provides a variety of possible applications in a wide range of business fields, one of which is real estate.
Functional equivalence
Blockchain technology opens up new possibilities to implement established legal institutions such as ownership or legal transactions in a technically functionally equivalent manner. The authors propose to recognize a digital system as functionally equivalent to the existence of a legal institution or to a legally valid transactions which fulfils all substantive and/or formal requirements that Swiss law attaches to it. These requirements are subject to judicial review and can be specified in law. This creates immediate legal certainty and can focus on what is necessary from a regulative perspective.
All magazine reportsPublications
Courtagenzahlungen an den Versicherungsbroker: Haben Sie Ihre Verträgeder neuesten Entwicklung angepasst? MME 2014
Insurance broker fees: Have you adapted your contracts to the requirementsset by the Federal Court? MME 2014