Curriculum Vitae

Fabien LIÉGEOIS
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone +41 78 812 69 51
Ch. du Vieux-Vésenaz 24
CH-1222 Vésenaz Genève
Curriculum Vitae
PERSONALIA
Date of birth: January 28, 1984
Place of birth: Meyrin (Switzerland)
Marital status: Single
EDUCATION
2013-2014
LL.M. Chicago Law School
2012-2013
Visiting researcher, Faculty of Law, University of California at Berkeley
2010-2012
Faculty of Law, Geneva University, Geneva/Switzerland
Research for Ph.D. on the Timing of Income (“La disponibilité du revenu”): study
in the scope of the Swiss individual income tax (under the direction of Prof.
XAVIER OBERSON)
May 2010
Law and Economics Courses for Doctoral Students and Faculty Members,
Study Center Gerzensee, Bern/Switzerland, “Introduction to Law and Economics
and Business”, Pr ROBERT D. COOTER (University of California at Berkeley)
2006-2007
Faculty of Law, Geneva University, Geneva /Switzerland
Master of Laws in Economic Law
Grade: 5.5, Grading system from 0 to 6 (lowest pass grade 4)
2003-2006
Faculty of Law, Geneva University, Geneva /Switzerland
Bachelor Law Degree
1999-2003
College De-Candolle,
Geneva/Switzerland
Swiss Cantonal Maturité in Latin (specific option), German (specific option),
French literature, physics and mathematics
With honors
CERTIFICATIONS
Nov. 2014
Passed the Bar Exam, New York Bar
Nov. 2009
Admitted to the Bar, Geneva Bar (ranked 2nd ex aequo)
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Activities in the area of law
Nov. 2011-
Lecturer on banking Law and Regulation, Fondation pour la formation des
adultes, Geneva IFAGE
Jan. 2010-2012
Research and Teaching Assistant to the LL.M TAX program of the Faculty of
Law (masters of advanced studies), Geneva University
Fall 2010-2012
Research and Teaching Assistant to Prof. CHRISTIAN BOVET, Dean of the
Faculty and Prof. XAVIER OBERSON at the Department of Public Law, Geneva
University
Member of the Centre for Banking and Financial Law and the Equality
Commission of the Faculty of Law, Geneva University
Summer 2010
Translations German to French for a specialized Administrative and Tax Law
review (Revue de Droit Administratif et Fiscal; Swiss Top Law review)
Sept. 2009 - Oct. Legal Traineeship within the Swiss Law Firm Lenz & Staehelin, (Geneva,
2007
Zurich, Lausanne; Who’s Who Legal awarded Lenz & Staehelin for the fifth time
in 2010: Switzerland’s Law Firm of the Year)
Summer 2007
Summer Trainee within the Swiss Law Firm Lenz & Staehelin
Lectures and Speaking engagements
March 2012
2011 -
2010
Lecture on Banking Secrecy : Quo Vadis, Faculty of Law, Geneva University,
Geneva/Switzerland
Occasional lectures on the Foundations of tax law within the LLM Tax program of
the Law Faculty of Geneva University (e.g. notion of income; principle of equal
treatment)
Occasional lectures on the Foundations of Swiss tax law, standing in for Prof.
Xavier OBERSON at the University of Geneva
Sept. 2011
Swiss Fiduciary Chamber 31st Tax Congress in Montreux/Switzerland
Speaking topic: “bank secrecy and international mutual assistance through
exchange of information”
Jan. 2009
Annual Seminar on contract law and civil law at the Law Faculty of Fribourg
University, under the direction of the Prof. FRANZ WERRO (Georgetown
University): Speaking topic: “Defect in Consent”
Selected other experience
2003-2007
Tennis teacher, “Tennis Club Collonge-Bellerive”, Geneva
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LEGAL PUBLICATIONS
Book Sections
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WITH NICOLAS KUONEN, Exercices en droit de la famille : cas et propositions de solution
(translation : Practical Cases in Family Law), Pichonnaz Pascal/Kuonen Nicolas (édit.), Zurich
(Schulthess) 2010
Journal Articles
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WITH CHRISTIAN BOVET, « Cross-Border Tax Administrative Assistance: “For The Times They
Are A-Changin’”», RSDA (SZW) 1/2013 (published in English)
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« Accords d’imposition à la source “Rubik” : une double alternative » (translation : “Swiss
Withholding Tax Agreements : a double alternative”), RevueFiscale 2012 (67) p. 574 (Swiss Top
Law review)
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« Secret bancaire et assistance administrative internationale en matière fiscale : les changements
apportés par la révision des conventions Suisse-France et Suisse-USA» (translation : “Banking
Secrecy and Cross-Border Tax Administrative Assistance : the changes after the revision of the
Double Taxation Agreements between Switzerland and the United States of America and
France”), RDAF 2011 II 1 (Swiss Top Law review + OREF AWARD)
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« Secret bancaire et entraide internationale en matière fiscale : le fait du prince », Plaidoyer 6/10,
p. 32 et s.
Electronic Articles
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« Limitation des garanties d’accès au juge pour les contribuables étrangers? » (translation : « Due
Process Limitations ? »), CDBF, September 10, 2013
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« Mise en oeuvre du FATCA en Suisse : Message du Conseil fédéral du 10 avril 2013 »
(translation : « Implementation of FATCA in Switzerland »), CDBF, April 19, 2013
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« Affaire Wegelin : De la nécessité d’un retour à la rigueur juridique » (translation :
« Indictement of the Wegelin Bank : Towards more Legal Certainty »), CDBF, February 7, 2012
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« Entraide en matière fiscale : Message concernant l’adoption d’une loi sur l’assistance
administrative fiscale » (translation : « Cross-Border Tax Administrative Assistance, the Swiss
Federal Tax Administrative Assistance Act »), CDBF, July 13, 2011
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« Entraide en matière fiscale : L’Ordonnance du Conseil fédéral relative à l’assistance
administrative d’après les conventions contre les doubles impositions », CDBF, September 7,
2010
Manuscripts
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La notion de concentration en droit de la concurrence et selon la loi sur les fusions, Degree thesis,
2005, 20 pages [Transl.: Concept of concentration under Swiss Cartels and other Restraints of
Competition Act and Swiss Merger Act]
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SCHOLARSHIP & HONORS
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2012: Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF is the most important
Swiss agency promoting scientific research)
Value CHF 44’000
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2011: Scholarship from the Young International Fiscal Association Scholarship IFA Congress in
Paris
Value EUR 4’000
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2010: Collonge-Bellerive Municipal Collective Award as a member of the Soccer Team FC StPaul, promoted to the top cantonal league
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2010: 1st prize ex aequo at the Swiss Fiduciary Chamber Award (Prix de l’Ordre Romand des
Experts Fiscaux)
Value CHF 7’500
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2009: “Accessit prize” at the 27th Oratorical Contest of the Geneva’s bar (lauréat du Concours
Michel Nançoz)
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1997-1998: Member of the Geneva’s cantonal selection of top Soccer players to dispute the Swiss
National championship (M-13; M-14)
LANGUAGES
French
Fluent (mother tongue)
German
Very good knowledge
English
Very good knowledge (TOEFL IBT: 109 ; December 7, 2012)
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
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Tennis teacher certified (Swiss federation of tennis diploma: “Jeunesse et Sport, Moniteur 1”)
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Soccer, Tennis, and Ski
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Member of the Swiss Society of jurists
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French literature, Rhetoric, Philosophy
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Chess
Fabien LIÉGEOIS, November 2014
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