Marie BergerPartner

Languages

• French, English, Spanish, Portuguese

Main fields of activity

• Family and persons' law (national and international divorce, separation matrimonial estate, judiciary measures of protection of the marital union, international child abduction, registered partnerships)
• Nuptial and prenuptial agreements
• Family finances
• Splitting of occupational pension scheme (second pillar)
• International private law
• Medicaly assisted procuration including surrogacy and effects in Switzerland 
• Recognition and enforcement of foreign orders and judgments
• Family Criminal law

Memberships

• Geneva Bar Association
• Swiss Lawyers' Federation
• Human rights Commission of the Geneva Bar
• Geneva Bar Exam Commission
• Juris Conseil Junior

Education

• Erasmus at the University Panthéon-Assas, Paris, (2003-2004)
• Law degree and certificate of transnational law at the University of Geneva (2005)
• Annual teaching session at the International Human Rights' Institute in Strasbourg (2005)
• Bar Exam in Geneva (2009)

Professional experience

• April 2021: representative of the Geneva Bar Association during a mission to observe the trials of Turkish colleagues and meetings in prison with some of them, in collaboration with European Bars and the International Observatory of Lawyers
• Partner of the Firm BRS Avocats (since 2020)
• May 2019 : representative of the Geneva Bar Association and the International Commission of Jurists in the framework of a mission to observe the humanitarian situation of the indigenous community of Laguna Larga from El Petén displaced on a border zone between Mexico and Guatemala
• Associate lawyer with the Firm BRS Avocats (since 2009)
• Trainee with the Firm LHA (2007-2008)
• Trainee with the Geneva Superior Court of Justice (September 2006 - February 2007)

Conferences

• May 27, 2022 : International congress AIJUDEFA 

  Symposium Estudio de Derecho Comparado. Caso práctico. Divorcio: Foros de competencia, acuerdos prenupciales y su ejecutividad, distintos regímenes económicos matrimoniales y reconocimiento internacional animated with Carolina Bustamante, María Fábrega and Javier Pérez Martín

• March 8, 2022: General Meeting on Family and Heritage Law

  Workshop News and case-law in PIL animated with Delphine Eskenazi, Alexandre Boiché and Professor Michel Farge

• June 25, 2021: French Institute of Family and Heritage Law
  Colloquium "L’aliénation parentale : mythe et réalité" - Speaker alongside Dr Paul Bensussan, Frédérique Bozzi, Audrey Decroix, Dr. Anne-Catherine Pernot Masson and Dr Jean-Luc Viaux
• March 30, 2021: Conference on family maintenance 

  Webinar organized by the ODAGE - Speaker alongside Mrs Sophie Thorens-Aladjem, judge at the First instance Court of Geneva. Moderation by Annette Micucci

• March 19, 2021: IAFL Introduction to European Family Law Webinar 

  Divorce and financial splits: an essential outline - Speaker alongside Agne Limante, Sam Longworth, Iryna Moroz and Séverine Tamburini-Kender

• January 29, 2021: General Meeting on Family and Heritage Law

  Workshop News and case-law in PIL animated with Mrs. Delphine Eskenazi, Alexandre Boiché and Professor Michel Farge

• 19 January 2021: The Law Society 

  Private Law Brexit transition - Divorce webinar. Speaker alongside Lisette Dupré, Alexandre Boiché and Elaine Richardson

• 31 January 2020: Etats généraux du Droit de la famille et du patrimoine, Paris
  News and jurisprudence in PIL workshop with Alexandre Boiché and Delphine Eskenazi and Professor Michel Farge
• 20 March 2020: IAFL Introduction to European Family Law Conference, Kiev
  Divorce and financial splits: an essential outline - Speaker
• March 2019: IAFL Introduction to Family Law Conference, Milan

  The Modern Family, surrogacy, gay marriage and cohabitation rights - Speaker

• March 2019: Young Bar Association Conference, Geneva

  Family law, selected aspects -  Speaker

• January 2019 : Etats généraux du Droit de la famille et du patrimoine, Paris

  Workshop Regards croisés sur l'autorité parentale et la résidence alternée animated with Mes Joaos Camara, Giulia Facchini Martini, Niamh Garvey, Arnaud Gillard, William Healing, Alice Meier-Bourdeau, Béatrice Vignolles

• October 2018 : National and international approaches to the regulation of surrogate motherhood, University of Lausanne

  Speaker alongside Mr Michael Wells-Greco and Mr Konstantinos Rokas

• December 2015: First Tuesday - Workshops to discuss recent case law, Geneva

  Workshop in family law with Mrs. Miranda Liniger Gros, Judge at the Court of First Instance

publications

• Swiss contribution in: Practical Law Family Global Guide, Thomson Reuters 2021 ( December 2020)
• ( December 2021)