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Sophie Weber
Senior Associate

Sophie Weber

Languages
  • German
  • English

Sophie Weber provides advice to private clients on all matters relating to wealth and estate planning, and estate administration. She also works in the areas of national and international matrimonial and inheritance law, and provides structured guidance on business succession processes. She also advises companies and individuals on matters of white-collar criminal law. She has extensive experience of investigating and addressing compliance violations within the scope of internal investigations and brings strong expertise in the area of anti-money laundering.

Sophie Weber holds a bachelor's and master's degree in law from University of Zurich. During and until one year after her master studies, she worked for a Swiss financial institution, in the area of anti-money laundering. She then completed a legal internship at a Zurich corporate law firm and a year as an intern at the District Court of Zurich.

In 2022, Sophie Weber was admitted to the Zurich Bar and has been with us as an attorney since then.

Publications

  • Panoramic, Anti-Money Laundering, Chapter on Switzerland, Lexology Law Business Research, 14 May 2024 and 21 May 2025 (co-author: Bernhard Lötscher)
  • Regulatory Intelligence, Country Update-Switzerland: AML, Thomson Reuters, 6 November 2023 and 2 January 2026 (co-author: Bernhard Lötscher)
  • Failure to report cyberattacks on critical infrastructure: legal obligations and criminal consequences (with Sébastien Moret), CMS LawNow, 1 July 2025

Memberships & Roles

  • Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV)

Education

  • 2022 – Admission to the Zurich Bar
  • 2017 – Master of Law, University of Zurich
  • 2015 – Bachelor of Law, University of Zurich
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