Competition

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

The team at Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd is praised for its ‘excellent collaborators’, and it is especially noted for its dominance and distribution case capabilities, also demonstrating an established presence across the fields of telecoms, pharmaceuticals, and retail. Steering the department is the ’excellent and impressive’ David Mamane, who excels at handling national and international merger control issues and routinely operates for a broad selection of clients. Amalie Wijesundera is another key contact at the firm, contributing her multi-faceted experience that extends across cartel investigations, dawn raids and leniency procedures. Peter Georg Picht and Frank Bremer, LL.M. are also recommended.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

‘The Schellenberg team are excellent collaborators and can be relied upon to handle difficult cross-border matters.’
‘David Mamane and Amalie Wijesundera are very responsive and personable.’
‘They are one of the best teams not only in Switzerland but in the EU as well. Always on top of the law and the facts, nice and easy to work with, concise and correct, and demonstrate good personal skills.’
‘Working with David Mamane's team in complex antitrust investigation is a pleasure as you have the true experts on your side, receive high quality advice and the collaboration is seamless and very pleasant.’
‘David Mamane has great expertise, knows the Swiss competition authority extremely well, is very hard working and a great colleague to partner with. He is very collaborative and always puts the clients interest first. He has a true can-do and service attitude.'
'Peter Georg Picht adds value with his vast knowledge of competition law and is able to draft and word arguments in a very compelling way. He is also very familiar with the Swiss competition authority and a great asset on the team.’
'Broad and well-founded specialist knowledge, fast comprehension of complicated facts and extremely reliable.’
‘David Mamane as partner is an excellent and impressive expert in Swiss competition/antitrust law. Apart from that, I was impressed by his and his team members - Frank Bremer and Amalie Wijesundera - and their ability to present complex legal analysis in a format which is understandable.’

Key clients

UBS/Credit Suisse
Swiss Post
SIX Interbank Clearing
Novartis
Globe Chemicals
Pistor
Swiss Marketplace Group
On
Volkswagen Financial Services
Samsung Electronics
Uber
CSL Behring AG
Apax
Energie Wasser Luzern
Miele
Lonza Ltd
Olympus
Rheinmetal Air Defence
Lafarge Holcim
Mammut
Procter & Gamble
Dacoso
dormakaba
Skoda
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Michelin
Bucher Landtechnik
AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals AG
Ringier
LaLiga
Vifor
Orpha Swiss

Work highlights

Advising Novartis on the procedure initiated by the Swiss competition authorities regarding an alleged abuse of a dominant position based on the use of its patents in infringement procedures against a third party.
Advising Symrise on the procedure initiated by the Swiss competition authorities regarding an alleged cartel with its competitors.
Advising Pistor on the ongoing large-scale cartel investigation by the Swiss ComCo regarding allegedly unlawful horizontal agreements in the context of payment transaction services provided by the company MARKANT.