
Lenz & Staehelin has been recommended as a TOP-TIER FIRM in 16 practice areas and been recommended in 7 practice areas in The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 edition
FIRM RANKINGS SUMMARY
TOP TIER FIRM in
16
practice areas
RECOMMENDED in
7
practice areas
TOP TIER FIRM Practice Areas
- ►Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva
- ►Switzerland > Banking and finance: Zurich
- ►Switzerland > Capital markets
- ►Switzerland > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- ►Switzerland > Competition
- ►Switzerland > Data privacy and data protection
- ►Switzerland > Dispute resolution: arbitration
- ►Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation
- ►Switzerland > Employment
- ►Switzerland > Intellectual property
- ►Switzerland > Leading firms: French-speaking Switzerland
- ►Switzerland > Leading firms: German-speaking Switzerland
- ►Switzerland > Private client
- ►Switzerland > Public law
- ►Switzerland > Real estate and construction
- ►Switzerland > Tax
LAWYER RANKINGS SUMMARY
Leading Individuals
16
lawyers are listed in the elite "Leading lawyers" group.
Partners: Next Generation lawyers
8
lawyers are listed in the "Next generation lawyers" group.
Associates: Rising Stars lawyers
3
lawyers are listed in the "Rising stars" group.
Legal 500 commentary: A total of 63 lawyers are mentioned by name in Legal 500 EMEA commentary for their standout contribution to respective practices.
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Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva > Hall of Fame
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva > Rising stars
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Zurich > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Zurich > Hall of Fame
Switzerland > Capital markets > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Capital markets > Hall of Fame
Switzerland > Commercial, corporate and M&A > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Commercial, corporate and M&A > Next Generation Partners
Switzerland > Competition > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Competition > Hall of Fame
Switzerland > Data privacy and data protection > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: arbitration > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: arbitration > Rising stars
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation > Hall of Fame
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation > Next Generation Partners
Switzerland > Intellectual property > Hall of Fame
Switzerland > Intellectual property > Next Generation Partners
Switzerland > Private client > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Private client > Rising stars
Switzerland > Public law > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Public law > Next Generation Partners
Switzerland > Real estate and construction > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Real estate and construction > Hall of Fame
Switzerland > Real estate and construction > Next Generation Partners
Switzerland > Tax > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Tax > Next Generation Partners
Switzerland > Insolvency and corporate recovery > Leading individuals
Switzerland > Insolvency and corporate recovery > Next Generation Partners
Switzerland > Regulatory, compliance and investigations > Leading Individuals
Switzerland > Sports law > Leading individuals
Switzerland > TMT > Leading individuals
FIRM & LAWYER RANKING DETAILS: IN DEPTH
TIER 1 FIRM RANKINGS
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Rising stars
Recommended:
- David Ledermann
- Fedor Poskriakov
- François Rayroux
- Laurence Vogt Scholler
- Olivier Stahler
- Shelby du Pasquier
- Valérie Menoud
Other key lawyer(s):
- François Rayroux
- Olivier Stahler
- Fedor Poskriakov
- David Ledermann
- Laurence Vogt Scholler
- Valérie Menoud
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Zurich
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Recommended:
- Marcel Tranchet
- Patrick Hünerwadel
- Patrick Schleiffer
- Stefan Breitenstein
Other key lawyer(s):
- Patrick Hünerwadel
- Stefan Breitenstein
- Patrick Schleiffer
- Martin Burkhardt
Switzerland > Capital markets
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Recommended:
- François Rayroux
- Jacques Iffland
- Marcel Tranchet
- Patrick Schärli
- Patrick Schleiffer
Other key lawyer(s):
- Marcel Tranchet
- François Rayroux
- Patrick Schärli
Switzerland > Commercial, corporate and M&A
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Next Generation Partners
Recommended:
- Andreas Rötheli
- Jacques Iffland
- Matthias Wolf
- Simone Ehrsam
- Tino Gaberthüel
Other key lawyer(s):
- Stephan Erni
- David Ledermann
- Simone Ehrsam
- Matthias Wolf
- Beat Kühni
- Roman Graf
- Jacques Iffland
Switzerland > Competition
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Recommended:
- Astrid Waser
- Benoît Merkt
- Marcel Meinhardt
Other key lawyer(s):
- Astrid Waser
- Sevan Antreasyan
Switzerland > Data privacy and data protection
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Recommended:
- Guy Vermeil
- Jürg Simon
- Lukas Morscher
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: arbitration
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Rising stars
Recommended:
- Hanno Wehland
- Harold Frey
- Martin Aebi
- Martin Burkhardt
- Thierry Calame
- Xavier Favre-Bulle
Other key lawyer(s):
- Martin Burkhardt
- Thierry Calame
- Daniel Tunik
- Martin Aebi
- Hanno Wehland
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Next Generation Partners
Recommended:
- Daniel Tunik
- Dominique Müller
- Harold Frey
- Hikmat Maleh
- Martin Burkhardt
- Xavier Favre-Bulle
Other key lawyer(s):
- Martin Burkhardt
- Dominique Müller; Miguel Oural
- Xavier Favre-Bulle
- Hikmat Maleh
- Martin Aebi
- Severin Christen
Switzerland > Employment
TIER 1
Recommended:
- Daniel Tunik
- Dominique Müller
- Matthias Oertle
- Sara Rousselle-Ruffieux
Other key lawyer(s):
- Anja Affolter
Switzerland > Intellectual property
TIER 1
Hall of Fame
Next Generation Partners
Recommended:
- Jürg Simon
- Peter Ling
- Sevan Antreasyan
- Thierry Calame
Other key lawyer(s):
- Peter Ling
Switzerland > Leading firms: French-speaking Switzerland
TIER 1
Recommended:
- Benoît Merkt
- Cécile Berger Meyer
- Frédéric Neukomm
- Sevan Antreasyan
- Valérie Menoud
Switzerland > Leading firms: German-speaking Switzerland
TIER 1
Recommended:
- Astrid Waser
- Harold Frey
- Lukas Morscher
- Marcel Tranchet
- Patrick Hünerwadel
- Patrick Schleiffer
- Simone Ehrsam
- Tanja Luginbühl
- Thierry Calame
Other key lawyer(s):
- Simone Ehrsam
- Astrid Waser
- Tanja Luginbühl
- Harold Frey
- Marcel Tranchet
- Patrick Hünerwadel
- Patrick Schleiffer
- Lukas Morscher
- Heini Rüdisühli
- Jürg Simon
- Marcel Meinhardt
- Thierry Calame
Switzerland > Private client
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Rising stars
Recommended:
- Alexandra Hirt
- Daniel Schafer
- Frédéric Neukomm
- Géraldine Auberson
- Heini Rüdisühli
- Lucien Masmejan
- Mark Barmes
Other key lawyer(s):
- Mark Barmes
- Fedor Poskriakov
- Tanja Luginbuehl
- Floran Ponce
- Frédéric Neukomm
- Géraldine Auberson
- Alexander Greter
- Jean-Blaise Eckert
- Alexandra Hirt
- Daniel Schafer
Switzerland > Public law
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Next Generation Partners
Recommended:
- Astrid Waser
- Benoît Merkt
- Marcel Meinhardt
Switzerland > Real estate and construction
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Next Generation Partners
Recommended:
- Beat Kühni
- Cécile Berger Meyer
- Fabiano Menghini
Other key lawyer(s):
- Cécile Vulliemin
Switzerland > Tax
TIER 1
Leading individuals
Next Generation Partners
Recommended:
- Daniel Schafer
- Floran Ponce
- Frédéric Neukomm
- Heini Rüdisühli
- Jean-Blaise Eckert
- Pascal Hinny
Other key lawyer(s):
- Daniel Schafer
- Frédéric Neukomm
- Floran Ponce
- Heini Rüdisühli
TIER 2 FIRM RANKINGS
Switzerland > Fintech
TIER 2
Recommended:
- Fedor Poskriakov
- Lukas Morscher
- Marcel Tranchet
Other key lawyer(s):
- François Rayroux
Switzerland > Healthcare and life sciences
TIER 2
Recommended:
- Andreas Rötheli
- Guy Vermeil
- Harold Frey
- Stephan Erni
- Thierry Calame
- Xavier Favre-Bulle
Switzerland > Insolvency and corporate recovery
TIER 2
Leading individuals
Next Generation Partners
Recommended:
- Daniel Tunik
- Dominique Müller
- Roman Graf
- Tanja Luginbühl
Other key lawyer(s):
- Dominique Müller
- Daniel Tunik
- Anja Affolter Marino
Switzerland > Insurance
TIER 2
Recommended:
- Lukas Morscher
- Olivier Stahler
Switzerland > Regulatory, compliance and investigations
TIER 2
Leading Individuals
Recommended:
- Astrid Waser
- Dominique Müller
- Hikmat Maleh
- Marcel Meinhardt
- Valérie Menoud
Other key lawyer(s):
- Astrid Waser
Switzerland > Sports law
TIER 2
Leading individuals
Recommended:
- Lucien Masmejan
- Stephan Erni
- Xavier Favre-Bulle
Other key lawyer(s):
- Hikmat Maleh
- Sevan Antreasyan
- Marc-Anthony de Boccard
Switzerland > TMT
TIER 2
Leading individuals
Recommended:
- Guy Vermeil
- Lukas Morscher
All FIRM RANKINGS
- David Ledermann
- Fedor Poskriakov
- François Rayroux
- Laurence Vogt Scholler
- Olivier Stahler
- Shelby du Pasquier
- Valérie Menoud
- François Rayroux
- Olivier Stahler
- Fedor Poskriakov
- David Ledermann
- Laurence Vogt Scholler
- Valérie Menoud
- Marcel Tranchet
- Patrick Hünerwadel
- Patrick Schleiffer
- Stefan Breitenstein
- Patrick Hünerwadel
- Stefan Breitenstein
- Patrick Schleiffer
- Martin Burkhardt
- François Rayroux
- Jacques Iffland
- Marcel Tranchet
- Patrick Schärli
- Patrick Schleiffer
- Marcel Tranchet
- François Rayroux
- Patrick Schärli
- Andreas Rötheli
- Jacques Iffland
- Matthias Wolf
- Simone Ehrsam
- Tino Gaberthüel
- Stephan Erni
- David Ledermann
- Simone Ehrsam
- Matthias Wolf
- Beat Kühni
- Roman Graf
- Jacques Iffland
- Astrid Waser
- Benoît Merkt
- Marcel Meinhardt
- Astrid Waser
- Sevan Antreasyan
- Guy Vermeil
- Jürg Simon
- Lukas Morscher
- Hanno Wehland
- Harold Frey
- Martin Aebi
- Martin Burkhardt
- Thierry Calame
- Xavier Favre-Bulle
- Martin Burkhardt
- Thierry Calame
- Daniel Tunik
- Martin Aebi
- Hanno Wehland
- Daniel Tunik
- Dominique Müller
- Harold Frey
- Hikmat Maleh
- Martin Burkhardt
- Xavier Favre-Bulle
- Martin Burkhardt
- Dominique Müller; Miguel Oural
- Xavier Favre-Bulle
- Hikmat Maleh
- Martin Aebi
- Severin Christen
- Daniel Tunik
- Dominique Müller
- Matthias Oertle
- Sara Rousselle-Ruffieux
- Anja Affolter
- Fedor Poskriakov
- Lukas Morscher
- Marcel Tranchet
- François Rayroux
- Andreas Rötheli
- Guy Vermeil
- Harold Frey
- Stephan Erni
- Thierry Calame
- Xavier Favre-Bulle
- Daniel Tunik
- Dominique Müller
- Roman Graf
- Tanja Luginbühl
- Dominique Müller
- Daniel Tunik
- Anja Affolter Marino
- Lukas Morscher
- Olivier Stahler
- Jürg Simon
- Peter Ling
- Sevan Antreasyan
- Thierry Calame
- Peter Ling
- Benoît Merkt
- Cécile Berger Meyer
- Frédéric Neukomm
- Sevan Antreasyan
- Valérie Menoud
- Astrid Waser
- Harold Frey
- Lukas Morscher
- Marcel Tranchet
- Patrick Hünerwadel
- Patrick Schleiffer
- Simone Ehrsam
- Tanja Luginbühl
- Thierry Calame
- Simone Ehrsam
- Astrid Waser
- Tanja Luginbühl
- Harold Frey
- Marcel Tranchet
- Patrick Hünerwadel
- Patrick Schleiffer
- Lukas Morscher
- Heini Rüdisühli
- Jürg Simon
- Marcel Meinhardt
- Thierry Calame
- Alexandra Hirt
- Daniel Schafer
- Frédéric Neukomm
- Géraldine Auberson
- Heini Rüdisühli
- Lucien Masmejan
- Mark Barmes
- Mark Barmes
- Fedor Poskriakov
- Tanja Luginbuehl
- Floran Ponce
- Frédéric Neukomm
- Géraldine Auberson
- Alexander Greter
- Jean-Blaise Eckert
- Alexandra Hirt
- Daniel Schafer
- Astrid Waser
- Benoît Merkt
- Marcel Meinhardt
- Beat Kühni
- Cécile Berger Meyer
- Fabiano Menghini
- Cécile Vulliemin
- Astrid Waser
- Dominique Müller
- Hikmat Maleh
- Marcel Meinhardt
- Valérie Menoud
- Astrid Waser
- Lucien Masmejan
- Stephan Erni
- Xavier Favre-Bulle
- Hikmat Maleh
- Sevan Antreasyan
- Marc-Anthony de Boccard
- Guy Vermeil
- Lukas Morscher
- Daniel Schafer
- Floran Ponce
- Frédéric Neukomm
- Heini Rüdisühli
- Jean-Blaise Eckert
- Pascal Hinny
- Daniel Schafer
- Frédéric Neukomm
- Floran Ponce
- Heini Rüdisühli
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva
TIER1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Rising stars
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Zurich
TIER1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Capital markets
TIER1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Commercial, corporate and M&A
TIER1
Leading individuals
Next Generation Partners
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Competition
TIER1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Data privacy and data protection
TIER1
Leading individuals
Recommended lawyers:
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: arbitration
TIER1
Leading individuals
Rising stars
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation
TIER1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Next Generation Partners
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Employment
TIER1
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Fintech
TIER2
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Healthcare and life sciences
TIER2
Recommended lawyers:
Switzerland > Insolvency and corporate recovery
TIER2
Leading individuals
Next Generation Partners
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Insurance
TIER2
Recommended lawyers:
Switzerland > Intellectual property
TIER1
Hall of Fame
Next Generation Partners
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Leading firms: French-speaking Switzerland
TIER1
Recommended lawyers:
Switzerland > Leading firms: German-speaking Switzerland
TIER1
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Private client
TIER1
Leading individuals
Rising stars
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Public law
TIER1
Leading individuals
Next Generation Partners
Recommended lawyers:
Switzerland > Real estate and construction
TIER1
Leading individuals
Hall of Fame
Next Generation Partners
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Regulatory, compliance and investigations
TIER2
Leading Individuals
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > Sports law
TIER2
Leading individuals
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
Switzerland > TMT
TIER2
Leading individuals
Recommended lawyers:
Switzerland > Tax
TIER1
Leading individuals
Next Generation Partners
Recommended lawyers:
Other key lawyer(s):
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