Our team

We advise and represent you in legal matters and always have your business objectives in mind.

We offer our clients around the world the best solutions in legal matters.

Christopher Bell

Attorney at Law, Partner

Christopher Bell has proven experience in the drafting of contracts, the placement and structuring of ILS transactions, M&A transactions and disputed (re)insurance claims. Among other things, he deals with:
- Insurance and reinsurance wordings
- Structuring and design of insurance linked securities (ILS), ILW''s and swaps
- Litigation, dispute resolution, arbitration, mediation and negotiation
- Structuring of securitisations (securitisation)
- Joint-ventures, negotiation and management after establishment
- Commutations and run-off
- Cross-border legal issues, regulatory law and compliance

T +41 44 552 16 82 • M +41 79 347 73 30

cbell@mbh-law.ch

↷ Profile and expertise (PDF)

Dr. Ulrike Mönnich, LL.M.

Attorney at law, mediator, partner

Ulrike Mönnich has many years of experience and specialisation in insurance, reinsurance and liability law. She has recently advised and represented her clients on the following topics:

- Coverage disputes in insurance and reinsurance business
- Cross-border insurance business (‘FoS’) within the EU and between Liechtenstein and Switzerland as well as insurance activities via domestic branches of foreign insurers
- Effects of the new Data Protection Act (DPA) on foreign insurance companies operating in Switzerland
- VAG partial revision
- Advice on international insurance programmes
- Liability of company managers (D&O claims)
- Distribution of insurance products (requirements under the new VAG, cross-border issues)
- Portfolio transfers

She represents the interests of her clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings.

T +41 44 552 16 81 • M (CH) + 41 76 77 12 892 • M (D) + 49 178 185 79 13

umoennich@mbh-law.ch

↷ Profile and expertise (PDF) ↷ Publications & Lectures (PDF)

Sara Oldani

Advocate, partner

Sara Andrea Oldani has been advising clients for several years in the areas of liability and insurance law in connection with national and international transport (ship, road, rail, aviation).

She supports companies with strategic foresight in all the challenges of day-to-day business: employment contracts, contracts for work and services, orders, storage contracts, forwarding contracts, loan agreements, franchise agreements, service contracts, defence against claims for damages, builder's lien law, drafting of general terms and conditions, tenders, competition law, debt collection and bankruptcy law, etc.

She represents the interests of her clients before state courts, arbitration tribunals and authorities in the enforcement or defence of claims and in out-of-court dispute resolution negotiations.

Standort Reinach BL: Neuhofstrasse 11, 4153 Reinach BL (Termine nach Vereinbarung)

T +41 61 539 11 13 • M +41 76 391 06 03

soldani@mbh-law.ch

↷ Profile and expertise (PDF)

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmut Heiss, LL.M.

Attorney at law, Of-Counsel

Helmut Heiss is a full professor at the University of Zurich, having previously held professorships in DE/AT. He is admitted to the Munich Higher Regional Court as a lawyer, has practised in Zurich since 2011 and also acts as an arbitrator, legal trustee for two German insurance companies and as a private expert. He specialises in insurance law expert opinions for domestic and foreign arbitration and court proceedings, in particular in international liability cases such as class actions in the USA.

He specialises in Swiss, German, Austrian, Liechtenstein, international and European insurance law, general contract law, Liechtenstein company, foundation and trust law as well as international private and procedural law.

He headed the project group on the ‘Principles of European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL)’ and heads the project group on the ‘Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law (PRICL)’. He was a member of the European Commission's Expert Commission on European Insurance Contract Law and has advised legislators on various matters.

T +41 44 552 16 83

hheiss@mbh-law.ch

↷ Profile and expertise (PDF)

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Oliver D. William

Attorney at law, Of-Counsel

Oliver Dean William is an assistant professor of private law specialising in the law of obligations at the University of Lucerne. He also acts as a private expert in matters of general contract law, non-contractual liability law and reinsurance law in particular. As a lawyer, he supports clients in an advisory capacity.

As ‘Special Advisor Drafting and Research’, Oliver Dean William advises the project group on the ‘Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law (PRICL)’. He is also rapporteur for the PRICL provisions on claims aggregation and serves as Vice Chair of the AIDA Working Party Dispute Resolution.

T +41 44 552 16 85 • M +41 76 573 40 30

owilliam@mbh-law.ch

↷ Profile and expertise (PDF)

Isaiyalakan Mathiyalakan

Legal assistant

Isaiyalakan Mathiyalakan is a student at the University of Zurich and has been a legal assistant at mbh Attorneys at Law since August 2025. Mr Mathiyalakan previously gained professional experience in legal consulting in family and tenancy law.

• Field of study: Bachelor's degree in law
• Targeted bachelor's degree completion: FS 2026
• Bachelor's thesis: Health claims on food products in Switzerland

T +41 44 552 16 80

isaiyalakan.mathiyalakan@mbh-law.ch

What can we do for you?

We advise on all matters relating to insurance and reinsurance law, support you in establishing subsidiaries or branches in Switzerland and in setting up the right corporate structures and implementing alternative reinsurance concepts.

We represent you in legal disputes in connection with the insurance business and also in disputes outside of state jurisdiction in asserting your interests in mediation or arbitration proceedings.

We review and revise individually negotiated solutions (e.g. reinsurance contracts and international insurance programmes) as well as general terms and conditions of insurance.

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