Alain Jaquet is an Associate in Quinn Emanuel’s D.C. office. He is qualified as an attorney in the United States (D.C. and New York) and Switzerland. His practices focuses on bankruptcy matters, as well as commercial and financial litigation, and white-collar defense and internal investigations. Alain regularly advises and represents national and international companies in a wide range of industries (e.g., banking, construction, crypto, food & beverage, logistics) and ultra-high-net-worth families in the different stages of U.S. litigation. Alain is also a member of the firm’s Latin America Practice.
Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Alain practiced law at leading Swiss firms, often representing financial institutions in civil disputes before Swiss courts as well as in white-collar matters involving Swiss, U.S. and Italian authorities.
- University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
(LL.M., Dean’s List, 2015)
(Wharton Business and Law Certificate, 2015) - University of Lausanne, Switzerland
(LL.M., summa cum laude, 2010)
(J.D., summa cum laude, 2008)
- The District of Columbia Bar (2023)
- The State Bar of New York (2016)
- Swiss Bar (2013)
- Italian
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- District Court of Lugano, Switzerland
- Law Clerk, 2010-2011
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Member of the Team Awarded "Mid-Size Company Turnaround/Transaction Team of the Year" in TMA Turnaround and Transaction of the Year Awards, 2024
- Firm Newsletter: Publication of the New Guidelines on the Implementation of the French Deferred Prosecution Agreement (“CJIP”) (2023)
- Alain Jaquet, Revision of Swiss Private Bribery Law, in: Ticino Management (2016)
- Henry Peter / Alain Jaquet, Commentary to Articles 215-218 of the Swiss Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Act, in: Daniel Hunkeler (ed.), Short Commentary to the Swiss Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Act, Helbing Lichtenhahn, 2nd edition (2014)
- Emanuele Stauffer / Alain Jaquet, The Fate of Stolen Data in the Exchange of Information at an International Level, in: Novità Fiscali (2012)
- Henry Peter / Alain Jaquet, Fraudulent Conveyances Under §§ 285 – 292 of the Swiss Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Act, in: Development and Tendencies in Swiss Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law, Helbing Lichtenhahn (2012)