Business transactions regularly require a careful analysis from a competition law point of view. We at Prager Dreifuss have excellent expertise in advising and representing companies – small and large, local and global – as well as public entities in all aspects of competition law. With profound knowledge of Swiss and EU competition law, we regularly advise clients before the Swiss competition authorities, and frequently collaborate with foreign law firms in multi-jurisdictional cartel and merger proceedings, be it as team members or co-ordinators of international teams. Public procurement and state aid law also belong to our preferred areas of practice.
The well-established competition team is headed by Philipp Zurkinden (partner) and further consists of Marino Baldi (of counsel) and Bernhard Lauterburg (counsel). The team members have excellent academic and professional backgrounds, and contribute to legal commentaries and law journals on a regular basis. Baldi is without doubt a grey eminence of Swiss competition law, having authored the current law on cartels as well as having been a member of the Swiss Competition Commission for many years. Zurkinden also worked at the Swiss competition authority and is regularly ranked among the top competition lawyers in Switzerland. Together with Lauterburg the team has worked on many high-profile matters in all industry sectors before the Competition Commission and cantonal and federal courts.
