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Wenger Vieli Ltd

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Wenger Vieli Ltd fields a team with broad public law expertise, covering a diverse range of areas including real estate, healthcare, and media. The team is co-headed by Michael Tschudin, who is an ‘experienced competition and general public law lawyer’, and Frank Scherrer, who regularly advises companies active in the life sciences space on a broad range of regulatory matters, in addition to other issues such as transactions and contract negotiations. Marcel Boller’s practice covers an array of public law matters, including regulation for cannabis medicines, and promotional matters for medical device companies.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Particularly experienced in the areas of competition law and data protection. ’

  • ‘Practice head Michael Tschudin is a very competent and experienced competition and general public law lawyer who has previously also worked for the Swiss competition authority and the Federal Administrative Court. Furthermore, he is particularly knowledgeable in the area of abuse of dominance. ’

  • ‘Wenger Vieli has an excellent public law team, including an active politician and a former clerk at the federal administrative court. They have a very broad and deep knowledge of public law.’

  • ‘Michael Tschudin is a great lawyer. He is very structured, very quick thinking, and very deep in the matters. ’

  • ‘Wenger Vieli is a mid-sized law firm with profound knowledge in public law.’

  • ‘Michael Tschudin is a very experienced and brilliant lawyer. He has many valuable contacts to authorities and courts.’

Key clients

  • Lighthouse Swiss Wealth Advisors
  • Redcare Pharmacy N.V.
  • Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank
  • Neon Switzerland
  • Nextech Invest

Work highlights

  • Advising multinational trust company Lighthouse on cross-border public law matters in obtaining FINMA license as asset manager and trustee.
  • Advised Redcare Pharmacy on public law matters in EUR 110m cross-border joint venture with Galenica.
  • Advised Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank on public law aspects of consolidated supervision of subsidiaries.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Frank Scherrer

Wenger Vieli Ltd

Frank Scherrer practices mainly in the pharmaceutical and health law fields. Further areas of expertise are antitrust and competition law as well as labor and employment law. He heads the Life Sciences practice group at Wenger & Vieli Ltd. Frank Scherrer mainly advises and represents pharmaceutical companies with regard to the authorization of medicinal products, licenses, reimbursements by health insurance funds, advertising and distribution, drafting of all types of contracts, data protection and product liability. He represents his clients in contract negotiations, as well as in administrative and judicial proceedings. He also assists clients in matters relating to medical devices and human research.

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Michael Tschudin

Michael Tschudin

Wenger Vieli Ltd

Michael Tschudin primarily works in the areas of Swiss and European competition law as well as public business law and M&A. He heads the ICT/IP/Competition Law practice group at Wenger & Vieli Ltd. Michael Tschudin assists Swiss and international companies in all questions of competition law. He represents sanctioned companies in various industries before authorities and courts and advises clients on distribution systems, licenses, joint ventures and other forms of cooperation as well as merger control. He regularly publishes articles in his areas of expertise in scientific journals. Since 2015, he has been a lecturer on competition law and intellectual property law at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). Chambers and Partners describes his practice in competition law as "excellent".

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Michael Tschudin, Frank Scherrer

Other key lawyers

Marcel Boller