Maître Jean-Yves Schmidhauser was born in 1965.

He obtained his Masters law degree at Lausanne University in 1987, then did a post graduate training in company management at the Business School of Lausanne University.

Maître Jean-Yves Schmidhauser was a court clerk of the Tribunal of the Canton de Vaud from 1987 to 1991, then authorized representative of ATAG IT until 1993.  He did his law internship at the Schmidt, Jaton & Partners Law Firm in Geneva and passed his Bar exams in 1995. He became a partner of Schmidt, Jaton & Partners in 2000, and founder of SJA Avocats SA.

Maître Jean-Yves Schmidhauser is very experienced in the fields of contract law, commercial law, inheritance law and debt enforcement and bankruptcy law. He was deputy judge at the Tribunal of the Canton de Vaud from 1998 to 2008 and currently holds the post of Judge at the Neutral Court of the Canton of Vaud.

He practises in French and English.