Emmy Gijs

Banking and finance

Corporate

Emmy Gijs

Emmy Gijs specializes in banking and finance law as well as corporate law. She mainly works on banking and commercial litigation cases, representing institutional and private clients before state and arbitral courts.

Emmy Gijs practices in French and English. She is registered with the Geneva Bar and is a member of the Geneva Bar Association and the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA).

Education

Geneva Bar admission (2022)

University of Geneva, Certificate of advanced studies in legal professions (2021)

University of Zurich, Master of Law, Double Degree (magna cum laude) (2020)

University of Maastricht (Netherlands), Master of Laws in Corporate and Commercial Law (LL.M) (2019)

University of Lausanne, Bachelor of Laws (magna cum laude) (2017)

High school degree (2014)

Experience

Aegis: senior associate (since 2025)

Aegis: associate (2023-2025)

Aegis (formerly ABR Attorneys at Law): junior associate (2020-2022)

MCE Avocats, Lausanne : Summer intern (August 2018)

District Court, Vevey : Intern (February 2018)

State Chancellery, Canton de Vaud : Translation of legal texts (July 2017)

Languages

French, English, German, Dutch/Flemish

Memberships

Geneva Bar Association (Ordre des Avocats de Genève, ODAGE)

Swiss Bar Association (Fédération Suisse des Avocats, FSA)

Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)

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