Lawyers in Switzerland
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Sarah Drukarch
Sarah Drukarch is a partner and member of Pestalozzi’s IP & TMT, Life Sciences, as well as Corporate/M&A practice groups in Zurich. She specializes in intellectual property, with a particular focus on life sciences, and also frequently advises clients on matters of unfair competition, data protection, food and healthcare as well as IT and media law. Sarah's expertise has been recognized by her continued inclusion as Rising Star for Switzerland by IP Stars since 2020. Sarah Drukarch advises and represents domestic and foreign corporations in the life sciences sector as well as in a broad range of other industries, including foodstuffs, consumer goods, media, ICT, and automotive, with establishing and maintaining intellectual property rights and related licensing and transfer matters. Her broad IP experience covers both national and cross-border M&A transactions as well as contentious matters. In the field of life sciences, Sarah Drukarch is regularly involved in the negotiations for international research and development projects, covering all ranges and aspects of pre-clinical, clinical, and post-marketing set-ups. She advises manufacturers and service providers of regulated products comprehensively, for example in connection with supply chain and distribution arrangements for pharmaceutical products and medical devices, marketing authorizations, industry-specific permits, know-how protection, marketing, compliance and vigilance, sponsoring, compensation, rights in data, as well as other complex contract negotiations. In addition, Sarah handles disputes in the life sciences industry and represents clients in international arbitration proceedings, before domestic state courts, and administrative authorities.
Pestalozzi
Sarah Hilber
Sarah Hilber is a counsel on the Real Estate and Insolvency and Restructuring teams. She advises institutional and private clients on all aspects of real estate law and represents clients before courts and the authorities. A major part of her practice is devoted to complex construction disputes. Sarah Hilber also works on complex national and cross-border insolvency proceedings and advises creditors and debtors on insolvency issues.
Wenger Plattner
Sarah Hunt
Partner
HFW
Sarah Schneider
Attorney-at-law | Notary
Kaiser Odermatt & Partner
Sascha Wohlgemuth
Attorney-at-Law, Certified Tax Expert, Partner
Bratschi Ltd
Saverio Lembo
Saverio Lembo heads Bär & Karrer's White Collar Crime practice group. He has extensive experience in white collar crime, commercial and financial litigation, international judicial assistance (civil and criminal), arbitration and insolvency. During recent years, he has been involved in a number of complex commercial litigation proceedings, has served as a party representative or arbitrator in various domestic and international commercial arbitrations and has assisted clients in Swiss and foreign criminal proceedings. He regularly represents clients before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Saverio Lembo's practice also extends to pharmaceutical litigation, inheritance law, employment matters and enforcement of foreign judgments and awards. Saverio Lembo is ranked in tier 1 of the leading lawyers in White-Collar Crime Switzerland by Chambers & Partners. He was awarded "Lawyer of the Year for Switzerland" in the categories "Business Crime Defence" and "Investigations" at the Who's Who Legal Awards in 2020 as well as "Lawyer of the Year 2016" in the categories Criminal Defence and Litigation in the Geneva area by Best Lawyers. Since 2012, the International Who's Who lists him among the world's leading practitioners in the areas of Business Crime Defence, Asset Recovery Lawyers and Commercial Litigation. In The Legal 500, Saverio Lembo has been listed among the leading individuals in Switzerland in Dispute Resolution since 2010.
Bär & Karrer Ltd.
Scott Falls
Associate
LKK Arbitration
Sebastian Burckhardt
Partner.
VISCHER
Sebastian C. Wyler
Sebastian C. Wyler is an Attorney-at-Law at Thouvenin Attorneys at Law. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for several years as an attorney at two renowned commercial law firms in Zurich. His practice focuses particularly on employment law, where he provides both advisory and forensic services, as well as on disputes before state courts and arbitration tribunals and advising on contractual and commercial law disputes. Recent experience includes the following: Representation of a Swiss wealth- and asset manager in the dismissal and exit of a co-founder and leading employee Representation of a relationship manager in employment-related disputes against his former employer, a large Swiss financial institution Representation of an internationally operating producer of contact lenses in the dismissal and exit of a Swiss-based key employee (by way of settlement) Representation of the acquirer in a complex post-M&A dispute against the former sellers
Thouvenin Rechtsanwälte
Sebastian Koch
Associate
Barandun AG
Sekandar Mokhtarzada
Counsel
100 Legal
Serafin Ritscher
Serafin Ritscher is an Associate in our Competition and Antitrust as well as Administrative Law and Public Procurement Groups in Zurich. He advises and represents clients in antitrust, competition, and public procurement matters in addition to a variety of other areas of public law, including transport, energy and healthcare.
Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd
Seraina Schaufelberger
Attorney-at-Law, CAS in Global Mobility Management
Bratschi Ltd
Serge Calame
Serge Calame co-heads the firm’s private clients practice group. His main areas of practice are international estate and tax planning where he provides broad expert advice to sophisticated international private clients and family offices, with a special focus on corporate and contractual issues to family owned businesses and entrepreneurial ventures.
MLL Legal
Serge Fasel
Serge Fasel is one of the Founding Partners of FBT and head of its Litigation and Arbitration Group. He has extensive experience both in Swiss and international court litigation and arbitration. His fields of activities cover all forms of commercial disputes, particularly in the financial sector. He is also active in the areas of insolvency law, employment law and economic crime. He has a vast knowledge of the Swiss judicial environment. Serge Fasel is a Deputy Judge with the Geneva Appeal Court after having served for several years as Deputy Judge with the Court of First Instance. He has also achieved a course in the Military Justice, his last two responsibilities having been Deputy Chief Auditor with the Swiss Army and then Judge with the Federal Military Court of Cassation.
FBT Attorneys-at-Law
Serge Migy
Attorney at Law, Partner, Lic. iur. About Serge Migy has been working in the fields of taxation and corporate law since 2002. He focuses on advising companies, entrepreneurs, and private clients. In addition, he regularly advises Swiss and foreign clients in a variety of industries on domestic and international transactions. Serge Migy teaches a course in taxation at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland in Fribourg. He is regularly called upon to give lectures and publish articles in his preferred fields (notably the tax aspects of business transfers).
Kellerhals Carrard
Serge Pannatier
Serge Pannatier worked as a trade negotiator with the Swiss Federal Administration before joining Baker McKenzie. Mr. Pannatier currently serves as head of the Employment Law and the WTO and International Trade practice groups in Geneva, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Firm's International Trade Compliance and Customs Practice Group. In addition to working for the Firm, he is also a faculty member of the World Trade Institute of the University of Berne (Switzerland). He is a key member of the Employment Law and the WTO and International Trade practice groups in Geneva, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Firm's International Trade Compliance and Customs Practice Group. He regularly advises multinational companies and governmental clients on a broad range of employment and international trade-related issues.
Baker McKenzie AG
Serge Vittoz
About Serge is a Counsel in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution and in the sports group, prior to which he has practiced in two renowned Swiss law firms specialising in sports law and dispute resolution. Serge has extensive experience in advising and representing all actors in the sports sector both for their competitions, commercial, organizational or political activities, and in the context of proceedings before the judicial bodies of the sports organisations (e.g. FIFA Tribunal), the ordinary courts, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) or the Swiss Federal Tribunal. In addition, Serge advises and represents clients in commercial disputes, including arbitration, subject to Swiss law. He also advises institutional clients on employment law and data protection. Experience Serge has been for several years the Counsel and active Legal Director of a major International Sports Federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He has represented major International Sports Federations in high-profile proceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). He has advised and represented a National Football Federation and a professional football player, allowing them to participate respectively in the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup. He has conducted several audits relating to the governance and the constitutional and regulatory framework of national and international sports organisations, leading to reforms in line with the highest applicable standards. Serge has served as a judge on various judicial bodies of International Sports Organisations, in particular the Disciplinary Committee for the accredited laboratories of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Anti-Doping Panel of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). He is currently a member of the Appeals' Panel of the International Basketball Association (FIBA).
Charles Russell Speechlys AG
Sergio Bortolani
Sergio Bortolani is a member of the firm’s corporate and finance department. His practice focuses on mergers & acquisitions, capital markets and general corporate and employment law. He advises privately held and publicly listed companies in all types of transactions and corporate matters. He also advises clients in employment law with a focus on employment-related matters in the context of takeovers, business transfers and restructurings.
MLL Legal
Sevan Antreasyan
Partner, Head of Intellectual Property
Lenz & Staehelin
Severin Christen
Partner
Lenz & Staehelin
Severin Roelli
Member of the Corporate/M&A group in Zurich. Advises both foreign and domestic clients on private and public M&A transactions, corporate governance issues, acquisition finance, capital market, securities and stock exchange law, corporate reorganizations, joint venture and general corporate law. Authorized issuer’s representative at the SIX Swiss Exchange.
Pestalozzi
Shelby R. du Pasquier
Partner, Head of Banking and Finance
Lenz & Staehelin
Shirane Halpérin
Associate
Lenz & Staehelin