2016 – Full Professor for business and commercial law, Zurich University
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Löwenstrasse 19
P.O. Box 2201
8021 Zurich
Switzerland
Löwenstrasse 19
P.O. Box 2201
8021 Zurich
Switzerland
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Prof Dr Peter Georg Picht, LL.M.
+41 44 215 5252 peter.picht@swlegal.ch
Work Department
Competition and Antitrust / Intellectual Property / International Arbitration / Private Wealth / ICT / Dispute Resolution / Telecommunication / Life Sciences / Blockchainm Technologies & FinTech
Position
Peter Georg Picht is a professor of law and holds the Chair for Business and Commercial Law at the University of Zurich and is the chair of the Center for Intellectual Property & Competition Law (CIPCO). He is Of Counsel in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Competition Group and IP Group. He regularly advises and represents clients in the areas of competition law, intellectual property law, private international and procedural law, and arbitration.
Career
2016 – Affiliated Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
2013-2016 – Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich
2008-2012 – Zurich University, Chair Prof. Dr. Dominique Jakob
2008 – Cooperation with international law firms
2005-2006 – Directorate General for Competition, European Commission, Brussels
2000-2008 – Institute for International Private and Business Law, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Languages
- German
- English
- French
Memberships
- Center for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Zurich – CIPCO (Chairman)
- Munich IP Dispute Resolution Forum (Board member)
- Academic Society for Competition Law – ASCOLA (Board member)
- Deutsche Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)
- International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA)
- Association Internationale de Droit Économique (Board member)
Education
2017 – Qualification for Professorship (Habilitation), LMU Munich
2012-2013 – LL.M., Yale University
2011 – Dr. iur., LMU Munich (summa cum laude)
2008 – Second State Exam and Bar Admission in Germany, registered in Switzerland (Art. 28 BGFA)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Geneva
- Competition
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Employment
- Fintech
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- Private client
- Real estate and construction
- Regulatory, compliance and investigations
- TMT
- Transport