Competition

Over the last decades, transactions and commercial practices have been increasingly impacted by anti-trust and competition regulations. Timely legal advice is needed to clear competition law issues prior to acquiring a company, merging businesses, entering into a joint venture, setting up a distribution network, fixing sales conditions, marketing or advertising policies, licensing IP rights, etc. Strong and competent representation is required to defend clients in investigations led by competition authorities in Switzerland and abroad. With its national footprint and international network, valfor has the reach and expertise required to handle our clients’ competition law issues.

Core Expertise

  • Filing of transactions (including acquisitions and joint ventures) for merger control clearance
  • Assistance to clients in investigations for anti-competitive conduct (vertical and horizontal restraints, abuse of market positions)
  • Advice on unfair practices and practices in violation of consumer protection law
  • Review of distribution and e-distribution channels to ensure compliance with competition law
  • Advice on free circulation of goods/services and free establishment in the national market
  • Assistance to clients in cartel investigations and market/sectoral investigations by competition authorities
  • Representation of clients before civil courts and arbitrators throughout Switzerland in matters involving competition law and/or unfair competition law and/or IP
  • Dealings with the Swiss Price Supervisory Office

Main contacts

Zurich Christoph Gasser Attorney-at Law, Dr. iur., LL.M. University of Michigan Law School
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To the team Competition

New partners. Enhanced expertise.

valfor is pleased to announce the addition of six new partners effective 1 January 2025.

The Lausanne-based law firm Mercuris Avocats, led by partners Olivier Cherpillod, Jean-Michel Clerc, Martine Loertscher, and Maxime Rocafort, will join valfor. Their team, specialising in commercial law, tax, and dispute resolution, will integrate valfor’s Pully/Lausanne office.

Deborah Hondius and Nicolas Gurtner will strengthen valfor’s Geneva office, bringing their expertise in litigation, particularly in white-collar crime and contractual matters.

United by a shared philosophy of delivering value beyond legal advice, they all look forward to combining their skills and resources for the benefit of valfor’s clients. This strategic growth reinforces valfor’s position as one of Switzerland’s leading business law firms, with over 80 lawyers practicing across Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Sion, Zug, Zurich, and Brussels.

With a strong international and interdisciplinary focus, valfor provides tailored legal solutions to meet the specific needs and complexities of each client’s business.

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