Lawyers

Dr. Domenico Acocella

born 1959, Partner
Dr. iur. HSG Attorney at Law
Notary Public of the Canton of Schwyz
Bar Admission: 1989
Registered with the Attorney’s Register

Preferred Areas of Practice

• Private International Law and Civil Procedure
• Liability and Torts Law
• Social Security Law
• Contract Law
• Construction Law
• Corporate and Commercial Law
• Litigation and Arbitration
• Matrimonial and Family Law
• Succession Law and Estate Planning
• Tax
• Notary Public's Services

Education

• Registration as a Notary Public of the Canton of Schwyz, 1991
• Bar admission, 1989
• University of St. Gallen, Dr. iur. HSG, 1989
• Study stay at the University of Milan, 1986
• University of St. Gallen, lic. iur., 1983

Professional Background

Dr Domenico Acocella is a founding partner of Acocella Keller Wolf Schilter. After completion of his internship with Professor Dr Ivo Schwander, 1984-1985, and conclusion of his academic training with the graduation as Dr. iur. (PhD) in 1989, Dr Domenico Acocella worked as a law clerk with the District Court of Schwyz, until he started his career as an independent attorney in 1991. Since then, he counsels primarily in the area of contracts, corporate and civil law. As a consequence, he is experienced in drafting various kinds of contracts and advises his customers on a regular basis in civil law regarding the conclusion of all kinds of legal transactions, such as testamentary pacts, wills, marriage contracts and divorce conventions. Furthermore, Dr Domenico Acocella performs in the entire described field as a trial counsel and offers Notary Public’s services. Moreover, he acts as an executor of wills. Dr Domenico Acocella is particularly experienced in counselling and litigating in the field of international cases. In this area he also writes legal expert opinions. Particularly in the legal relation with our neighbouring countries, Italy and Germany he is frequently advising and litigating in the area of contract law, matrimonial and successional law. Here, the legal relations in Italian-Swiss fact patterns take an important position. Dr Domenico Acocella further counsels and litigates in social security and liability cases with personal injury or death, which cover a large part of his everyday activity. Dr Domenico Acocella is also scientifically active and he was from 2008 to 2012 Substitute Member of the Supervisory Commission for Lawyers of the Canton of Schwyz.

Memberships

• Swiss Bar Association
• Schwyz Bar Association
• German-Italian Lawyer’s Society
• Scientific Society for International Civil Procedure
• Society of Young Civil Law Scientists

Languages

• German
• Italian
• English
• French

Publications and Lectures

• Internationales Erbrecht und Erbrechtsverfahren im Verhältnis Schweiz- Italien, lecture at the St. Galler Erbrechtstag des IRP, Zürich, 2012
• Die Qualifikation des Zahlungsbefehls, der provisorischen Rechtsöffnung, der Aberkennungsklage und der Feststellungsklage gemäss Art. 85a SchKG nach dem LugÜ, FS für Ivo Schwander, Zürich/St. Gallen 2011, S. 643 ff.
• Commentary on Art. 1-4, Vorbem. zu Art. 2, 5 Nr. 1-3, 18-21, 31, 57-58, 62 LugÜ, in: Anton K. Schnyder (Hrsg.), Lugano-Übereinkommen (LugÜ) zum internationalen Zivilverfahrensrecht, Kommentar, Zürich/St. Gallen 2011
• Commentary on Art. 38-45 SchKG, in: Adrian Staehelin/Thomas Bauer/Daniel Staehelin (Hrsg.), Basler Kommentar zum Bundesgesetz über Schuldbetreibung und Konkurs, 2nd ed., Basel 2010
• Book review „U. Magnus/P. Mankowski (Hrsg.), Brussels I Regulation, München 2007“, AJP 2010, S. 1063
• Nichtigkeitsbegriff und Konzept einer einheitlichen vertragsrechtlichen Rückabwicklung gescheiterter Verträge, SJZ 2003, S. 494 ff.
• Forma e validità dei testamenti in Svizzera e all'estero con particolare riguardo al trasferimento di fondi in seguito a successioni di proprietari domiciliati all'estero, in: Temi scelti di diritto ereditario, A cura di Giorgio A. Bernasconi, Marco Ambrosini e Luca Guidicelli, Lugano 2002
• Commentary on Art. 38-45 SchKG, in: Adrian Staehelin/Thomas Bauer/Daniel Staehelin (Hrsg.), Basler Kommentar zum Bundesgesetz über Schuldbetreibung und Konkurs, Basel 1998
• Die internationale Produkte- und Umwelthaftung und das Lugano-Übereinkommen, lecture at the 2nd Swiss Symposium of the EBDI, Zürich, 1996
• Book review Reiser Hans: „Gerichtsstandsvereinbarungen nach dem IPR-Gesetz und Lugano-Übereinkommen, Zürich 1995“, SJZ 1996, S. 154 f.
• Der Bauzivilprozess im Überblick, in: Alfred Koller (Hrsg.), Bau- und Bauprozessrecht: Ausgewählte Fragen, St. Gallen 1996
• IPRG, Lugano-Übereinkommen und die kantonalen Prozessordnungen, in: Mitteilungen aus dem Institut für zivilgerichtliches Verfahren in Zürich, Nr. 17, Dezember 1993
• Book review "Giurisdizione e legge applicabile ai contratti nella CEE, a cura di E. Jayme e L. Picchio Forlati u.a., Padova 1990", RabelsZ 1993, S. 703 ff.
• Grundzüge des Lugano-Übereinkommens von 1988 und des Wiener Kaufrechtsübereinkommens von 1980, lecture at the Congress of the Schwyz Bar Association, May 4th 1991
• Die Verjährung in der neueren Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichts, SJZ 1990, S. 333 ff.
• Internationale Zuständigkeit sowie Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Entscheidungen im schweizerisch-italienischen Rechtsverkehr, doctoral Thesis (Ph.D), St. Gallen 1989
• Ausländer und Pressefreiheit, Thesis, St. Gallen 1983