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Thomas Meister is a partner in the Tax Team. He is working in the fields of domestic and international corporate tax, including tax optimization, corporate and real estate finance, structured finance, corporate reorganizations, transaction structuring and M&A. Since 2004 he is an adjunct professor for tax law at the University of St. Gall. Born in 1963, Thomas Meister was educated at the Universities of Lausanne and St. Gall (lic. iur. 1989, Dr. iur. 1995), New York University (LL.M. 1998...

Roger Staub is a Partner in the Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Competition Team. He represents national and international companies from various industries, such as luxury goods, pharmaceuticals, food, financial services, fashion, medical devices and media. He specialises in litigating complex cases before state courts and arbitration tribunals. In addition, he advises clients in negotiating IP and technology-related contracts and in developing IP strategies. He also works ...

Partner Olivier Carrard mainly focuses on Sports law, litigation, arbitration, commercial law, construction law, inheritance law and bankruptcy. Graduated from the University of Fribourg (1982), he was admitted at the Geneva Bar in 1985. He worked at the General Direction of SBS (Basel). He founded his own firm in 1990, and joined ZPG as a partner in 2005, which merged with CMS in 2014. Olivier Carrard is now a Partner of CMS Geneva office. Since January 1st 2016, he has been appointed in 98 ...

Mathieu Blanc has been practising for many years in the different fields of commercial law. He regularly advises local or international companies in all stages of their constitution and development as well as during corporate transfers and successions or for issues of governance (drawing up shareholders’ agreements, financing, organisation of the board of directors). Mathieu Blanc also advises numerous clients for the drawing up and negotiation of sales contracts. He furthermore assists...

Practising law for more than 25 years, Amédée Kasser has acquired recognised experience in the legal field, whether involving civil, criminal or administrative proceedings. His practice enables him to assist companies and private individuals before the courts and authorities of all bodies as well as to negotiate contracts or transactions. His main fields of activity are in public law, construction, environment and energy law. He also takes on criminal defence mandates and has a ...

Partner Philipp Dickenmann is the head of the Dispute Resolution Practice Group of CMS Zurich. He also serves as core team member of the global CMS Dispute Resolution Practice Area Group as well as the CMS Commercial Practice Area Group. Philipp Dickenmann has extensive experience in commercial litigation and international arbitration. He acts as counsel and co-counsel, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in numerous national and international cases. This includes arbitrations conducted under t...

Rafaella Demierre is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Mergers and Acquisitions Law. Rafaella, who practices law in Lausanne, Switzerland, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Rafaella is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Counsel Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser advises and represents clients in connection with contentious and non-contentious issues relating to trademarks, designs, copyrights, patents, data protection, unfair competition and advertisement. She has substantial experience in the drafting and enforcement of contracts for the transfer of intellectual property rights, especially license agreements. She further regularly deals with all due diligence relevant IP/IT and data protection aspects of corp...

Partner Certified Specialist SBA Construction and Real Estate Law Sibylle Schnyder specialises in real estate law and mainly deals with real estate acquisitions and divestments, portfolio transactions, construction and development projects, landlord and tenant law, real estate financing, sale & rent back transactions and real estate related litigation. Among the clients of Sibylle Schnyder are Swiss and foreign institutional real estate investors, companies with corporate real estate matt...

Jürgen Brönnimann is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Litigation. Jürgen, who practices law in Bern, Switzerland, has been recognized since 2010. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jürgen is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.