The practice at Pestalozzi is known for providing legal advice and representation to leading domestic and international clients in various TMT areas such as IT services, online distribution and advertising, outsourcing, privacy, e-commerce, and e-discovery. The expanding team is headed by Lara Dorigo, whose practice focuses on IP enforcement and defence, technology transfer, new technologies, e-commerce, entertainment law, advertising, licensing, personality rights issues, and branding strategies. IP experts Michèle Burnier and Thomas Legler both represent clients before the Swiss courts and in arbitral proceedings, respectively.

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Key clients

  • CH Media
  • Coca-Cola
  • Infor Group
  • Johnson & Johnson group of companies
  • Leclanché
  • McDonald's
  • Ringier
  • Sky Group: Sky International AG, Sky Deutschland GmbH, Sky UK Limited,
  • ZimmerBiomet

Work highlights

  • Assisted clients with respect to cyber attacks and all their legal consequences, including setting up a task force for overall crisis management and communications, data protection issues and data information requests by employees and third party stakeholders, filing criminal complaints and representation in criminal law proceedings.
  • Assisted clients with respect to the implementation of APPs in the automotive field.
  • Assisted clients with respect to the implementation of the revised data protection laws in Switzerland, including adaptations of internal policies and organisations, all contractual frameworks and privacy policies.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Lara Dorigo

Other key lawyers

Michèle Burnier, Thomas Legler, Sarah Drukarch, Markus Winkler