Wilhelm Boner

Wilhelm Boner is a lawyer with Boner Rechtsanwälte in Aarau, Switzerland. His listed areas of work include contract and commercial law, liability law, criminal and economic criminal law, and employment law. He also lists legal-profession and medical law, construction and energy law, inheritance law, and family law among his preferred practice areas.

Boner earned his law degree at the University of Zurich in 1976 and obtained his Aargau legal qualification in 1978. He completed his doctorate at the University of Zurich in 1984. His subsequent education included studies in US law at Berkeley and Davis in 1994 and 1995, followed by a Master of Comparative Law at Tulane University in 1997. His profile also records a New York legal qualification in 1997 and a master’s degree in combating economic crime from the University of Lucerne in 2006.

Before establishing his own Aarau practice in 1983, Boner worked as a clerk at Bremgarten District Court from 1977 to 1979 and as a lawyer at a Baden commercial law firm from 1979 to 1982. His judicial experience includes service as a substitute higher-court judge and deputy to the president and vice-president of Aargau’s Commercial Court from 1993 to 2020. He served on the Aargau Higher Court’s lawyers’ commission from 1986 to 2007. His professional publications include a 1985 work on part-time employment and writings on lawyers’ professional regulation, advertising, and economic independence.