Lawyers

Peter Georg Picht, LL.M.

Peter Georg Picht, LL.M.

Work Department

Competition and Antitrust / Intellectual Property / International Arbitration / Private Wealth / ICT / Dispute Resolution / Telecommunication / Life Sciences / Blockchainm Technologies & FinTech

Position

Peter Georg Picht is a professor of law and holds the Chair for Business and Commercial Law at the University of Zurich and is the chair of the Center for Intellectual Property & Competition Law (CIPCO). He is Of Counsel in Schellenberg Wittmer's Competition Group and IP Group. He regularly advises and represents clients in the areas of competition law, intellectual property law, private international and procedural law, and arbitration.

Career

2016 - Full Professor for business and commercial law, Zurich University 2016 - Affiliated Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich 2013-2016 - Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich 2008-2012 - Zurich University, Chair Prof. Dr. Dominique Jakob 2008 - Cooperation with international law firms 2005-2006 - Directorate General for Competition, European Commission, Brussels 2000-2008 - Institute for International Private and Business Law, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

Languages

German English French

Memberships

Center for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Zurich – CIPCO (Chairman) Munich IP Dispute Resolution Forum (Board member) Academic Society for Competition Law - ASCOLA (Board member) Deutsche Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) Association Internationale de Droit Économique (Board member)

Education

2017 - Qualification for Professorship (Habilitation), LMU Munich 2012-2013 - LL.M., Yale University 2011 - Dr. iur., LMU Munich (summa cum laude) 2008 - Second State Exam and Bar Admission in Germany, registered in Switzerland (Art. 28 BGFA)