Praised for being ‘talented, intelligent and responsive’, Niederer Kraft Frey AG’s competition team's broad range of strengths, encompassing merger control proceedings, the drafting of agreements, and assisting in connection with M&A transactions, means it is well placed to advise on complex and precedent-setting cases. ’Excellent’ Nicolas Birkhäuser leads the team with his demonstrable expertise across a broad scope of issues from investigation and merger control proceedings to IP-related aspects of competition law. Handling a variety of contentious and non-contentious issues, Thomas A Frick is proficient in competition law in the finance industry, and in handling distribution systems and compliance matters. Anna Mentzer and Paloma Alcántara are other key names within the practice.
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‘Nicolas Birkhäuser is very competent, customer-oriented, flexible and professionally excellent. Over the past years, a very pleasant and uncomplicated cooperation has developed, which we appreciate very much.’
‘NKF has very talented, intelligent and responsive lawyers.’
‘Nicolas Birkhäuser has an excellent expert knowledge and provides understandable advice despite the complexity of the topic.’
‘I work with Nicolas Birkhauser, who serves as local counsel in an international cartel matter. He is excellent - smart, focused, organised, and very balanced.'
'Nicolas Birkhäuser is a good communicator and is very good with clients.’
Leading individuals
Nicolas Birkhäuser advises undertakings in the field of Swiss and European competition law, merger control, horizontal and vertical restraints, exchange of information, distribution, parallel imports, cooperation, licensing, joint ventures, dominance, compliance, risk management, investigation proceedings, including dawn raids and leniency programs. Nicolas Birkhäuser combines this with a strong expertise in IP.
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Nicolas Birkhäuser