Attorney, Dr. iur.
One of my preferred areas of practice is advising and assisting in all questions of real estate law. I predominantly support you in your capacity as landlord, property manager, landowner, buyer or seller and builder or entrepreneur. For companies I offer tailor-made solutions as an external legal department.
Services
Portrait
Publications
Services
General contract law
- Contract design, review and negotiation
- Advice on the implementation, interpretation and analysis of contracts
- Drafting and updating needs-based contract models
- Sample contracts and general terms and conditions (GTC)
- Assertion of contractual rights and claims
Employment law
- Employment contracts
- Notices of termination, declarations of release from duties
- Wage claims
Debt enforcement and discharge
- Assertion of receivables by way of debt enforcement and bankruptcy
- Discharge proceedings
- Securing assets through distraint
- Enforcement of foreign judgements and other claims
Property law
- Property and its use
- Drafting of purchase contracts
- Liens and registration of easements
- Usufruct
- Right of abode agreements
- Capital gains tax on property
- Property sales
Tenancy law
- Advice for landlords and administrations
- Design and conclusion of rental contracts
- Rent increases after (total) renovations
- Assertion of rights and obligations arising from rental contracts
- Procedure for dealing with defects in rented leased property
- Procedure for dealing with tenant rent arrears
- Termination of rental contracts
- Rent collection
- Representation before arbitration authorities and courts
- Eviction procedures
Condominium ownership and law on neighbour relations
- Neighbours’ rights and obligations
- Excessive (noise) emissions
- Trees and shrubs under the law of neighbour relations
- Rights and obligations arising from condominium ownership
- Contesting decisions of the condominium owners
Contract for work and private building law
- Design and conclusion of contracts for work and architecture contracts
- Registration, deletion of building contractor liens
- Assertion of claims arising from contracts for work
- Work defects / claims for defects
- Reworking
- Excessive (noise) emissions
Horse law
- Advice on buying horses and drafting purchase agreements
- Procedure in case of “defects” of the purchased horse
- Drafting and conclusion of horse pension contracts
- Enforcement of rights as horse pension provider
Portrait
Languages
German, Serbo-Croat, Italian, French, English
Education
- 2004
- Admitted to the bar in Zurich
- 2002
- Doctorate at the University of Zurich
- 2000
- Licenciate
Further training
- March 2019
- Journey through spatial planning and building law in Zurich (Specialist Section on Building Law)
- Sept. 2017
- 3rd conference on condominium ownership: The community of condominium owners – curse or blessing?
- Porträt im Plädoyer
- March 2015
- The shell rent – permissibility and limits (Specialist Section on Tenancy Law)
- Dec. 2014
- The precautionary evidence in construction cases (Specialist Section in Building Law)
- Nov. 2013
- Warranty for entire overbuildings (Specialist Section in Building Law)
- Sept. 2013
- Lucerne Condominium Ownership Day
- Sept. 2013
- Transfer of rights and obligations to a third party in accordance with Art. 263 OR [Swiss Code of Obligations] (Specialist Section on Tenancy Law)
- Oct. 2012
- Tenancy and Property Law – Aspects of the Law of Procedure (Conference staged by the University of St. Gallen)
- Feb. 2012
- Eviction of tenants in accordance with Art. 257 ZPO [Swiss Code of Civil Procedure] (Specialist Section on Tenancy Law)
- Jan. 2012
- Changes to the Law on Immovable Property (SJWZ-Conference)
- Juni 2010
- Conference on the ZPO staged by the Stiftung für juristische Weiterbildung Zurich [Foundation for Further Legal Training]
- Nov. 2009
- Rental of Business Premises
- May 2008
- Practitioner’s Conference on Building Law
Outside activities
- Since 2018
- Member of the Commission for Expropriation, Building Insurance and Fire Protection of the Canton of Schaffhausen
- Since 2008
- Commentator for the push-service of weblaw.ch in the field of tenancy and leasehold law – www.push-service.ch
- Since 2008
- Arbitrator (landlord representative) at the arbitration body for tenancy and leasehold issues in the district of Andelfingen
- 2006 – 2018
- Member of the Examinations Committee for the municipality of Andelfingen
Professional activities
- 2015
- Founded Schaub Hochl Rechtsanwälte AG (Incorporated)
- 2006
- Partner in the law firm of Schaub Hochl
- 2005 – 2007
- Head of Legal Services in a Winterthur-based property management company which operates nationwide throughout Switzerland
- 2004 – 2005
- Lawyer in a law firm based in Winterthur
- 2004
- Legal employee in the Human Resources department of a Winterthur-based property management company which operates nationwide throughout Switzerland
- 2001 – 2003
- Legal secretary in a district court in the canton of Zurich; chairperson of the arbitration body for tenancy and leasehold issues
- 2001
- Legal administrative employee in the claims department of a legal protection insurance company in Zurich
Memberships
- Zurich Bar Association, Swiss Bar Association
- «Pikett Strafverteidigung» Association [Stand-by Criminal Defence]
- Specialist Section of the Zurich Bar Association on Tenancy Law
- Specialist Section of the Zurich Bar Association on Building Law
- Home Owners’ Association Winterthur and local district
- Legal Services Pro Juventute, contract law
- Professional Association for the Region of Andelfingen
Publications