Mark Barmes

Private Clients, Dispute Resolution

Mark Barmes is a senior counsel at our Geneva office. He remains a member of the Litigation and Arbitration and Private Clients groups. Mark continues his involvement in matters of trusts and trust disputes as well as employment disputes before the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation. Mark is also a director of L&S Trust Services SA.

University of Queensland (Bachelor of Economics 1984, Bachelor of Laws 1985), Admission as solicitor in Queensland, Australia (1987), Joined Lenz & Staehelin (1988), Admission to the Section of foreign lawyers of the Geneva Bar (1990), Admission as solicitor in England and Wales (1992), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (1998), Senior Counsel at Lenz & Staehelin (2022)

- Barmes M., Vijverberg L., Breitenstein S., Greter A., Relevant changes for trustees in final ordinance of the Financial Institutions Act, Lenz & Staehelin Update Newsflash, November 2019

- Oural M., Barmes M., The Asset Tracing and Recovery Review 2018 - Switzerland, in: The Law Reviews, 6th edition, September 2018, 375-388

- Vijverberg L., Barmes M., Modernisation of Swiss succession law under way, in: International Law Office, 11 October 2018