‘Extremely accurate, pragmatic and knowledgeable’, Pestalozzi routinely operates within the sectors of life sciences, technology, and finance, providing its client roster with expertise in advising on global IT platform programmes, cyber criminality issues, and data protection issues surrounding social media, to name a few. Michèle Burnier leads the team with her wide-ranging skillset that is comprised of IP, data protection and e-commerce mandates, among others, while experienced arbitrator Thomas Legler is also highly active in IP and IT-related mandates. Sarah Drukarch and Markus Winkler are also recommended.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The uniqueness is the extremely professional and friendly collaboration. They feel almost to be friends but still everything is held in a professional way.'

  • 'The whole process was very smooth.’

  • ‘A very friendly and collegial interaction.’

  • ‘Very high level of expertise.'

  • 'Extremely accurate, pragmatic and knowledgeable.’

  • ‘Michèle Burnier has an extensive experience and deep academic knowledge in Swiss data privacy and EU data privacy as well.'

  • 'Sarah Drukarch is very in health and IT related issues. She is extremely client oriented and pragmatic.’

  • ‘They are very capable and good to work with.'

Key clients

  • Akorn Pharma
  • CH Media
  • Coca Cola
  • Infor Group
  • Johnson & Johnson group of companies
  • Leclanché
  • McDonald's
  • Ringier
  • ZimmerBiomet

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Michèle Burnier

Other key lawyers

Thomas Legler, Sarah Drukarch, Markus Winkler