Mrs Sylvie Gurry-Veit > BMG Avocats > Geneva, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
BMG Avocats Offices
8C AVENUE DE CHAMPEL
PO BOX 385
1211 GENEVA 12
Switzerland
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Mrs Sylvie Gurry-Veit
Work Department
Intellectual Property Law
Competition and Unfair competition Law
Commercial Contracts
Commercial Arbitration
Internet Law
Privacy law
Position
Founder
Career
Founding Partner of BMG Avocats, Geneva, January 1996
Local Partner of Baker & McKenzie, Geneva, 1995
Associate with Baker & McKenzie, Geneva 1989-1995
Teaching Assistant in International Monetary Law, Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, 1987-1989
Financial Analyst with Société Générale, Investment Bank, Sydney, Australia, 1984
Expert, Legal Commission of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, since 2009
Languages
French and English
Memberships
International Trademark Association (INTA)
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
Licensing Executives Society (LES)
International League of Competition Law (LIDC)
Geneva Association of Business Lawyers (AGDA)
MARQUES – Association of European Trade Mark Owners
Education
University of Strasbourg, France (Licence en droit, 1981)
University of Paris – Assas, France (1983)
University of Melbourne, Australia (Master of Laws, 1983-1984)
Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva
(Doctorate program prior to thesis, 1986-1989).
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Intellectual property
The IP practice at BMG Avocats is co-headed by Sylvie Gurry-Veit, whose practice covers the full range of domestic and international IP and commercial transactions, and ‘exceptional’ Anne-Virginie La Spada, who has extensive expertise in trade mark, design, and copyright issues. The team has particular strengths in Swiss and global acquisition, exploitation and enforcement of IP of big and medium size brands, whom they advise on IP and commercial undertakings in Switzerland and internationally. The team, alongside the litigation department, represents clients involved in IP related arbitration proceedings.