Lenz & Staehelin ‘incredible’ team offers a wide range of regulatory and transactional work in all areas of technology and digitalisation across various industries with a specific focus on TMT outsourcing transactions, licensing and sponsoring matters, telecom network outsourcing, and content regulation. Zurich team head Lukas Morscher advises domestic and international clients in the areas of technology, telecoms, and business sourcing. Geneva team head Guy Vermeil advises on international and domestic transactions in relation to IT and outsourcing matters. The team is supported by competition law expert Marcel Meinhardt and IP specialists Thierry Calame and Peter Ling, while Emilie Jacot-Guillarmod is a key name to note on associate level.

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Testimonials

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‘Technically top notch, as well as offering sound and pragmatic commercially astute advice.’
‘The team is incredible and the collaboration outstanding. The quality, availability and workforce of the team is hard to match. ’
‘Guy Vermeil provides unvaluable strategic, business and practical advice on all our legal situation. It makes a world of difference.'
‘Great knowledge, amazing availability, solution oriented.’
‘L&S team is very technical and professional, composed of excellent lawyers. All of them have a deep knowledge of this practice, not only from a legal but also from a technical perspective. We appreciated their sharp and high level of legal advice.’
‘Emilie Jacot-Guillarmod's and Guy Vermeil's advice are always on point and have strong technical skills. Great response time, highly innovative. Available for meetings at short notice. Very dynamic, practical and solution driven.’

Key clients

ARICOMA Group
AT&T
Bank Vontobel
Banque Cramer & Cie SA
Carlo Gavazzi Group
Caterpillar Insurance Co.
China Telecom
ERNI Group
Generali
Intesa Sanpaolo
JP Morgan
Liberty Mutual
Partner One
Resolution Life
Sopra Steria SE
Truphone

Work highlights

Acted as legal advisor to Partner One on the successful acquisition of Stromasys SA.
Advising global insurance and investment broker group on legal, regulatory and contract aspects of the development and operation of an online platform for the cross-border intermediation and offering of collateralized reinsurance and related investment opportunities into Switzerland.
Advised operator of global platform for the issuance, custody and trading of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in artworks and its envisaged redomiciliation into Switzerland, including general legal, regulatory and tax matters.