Mr Guy Vermeil > Lenz & Staehelin > Geneva, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
Lenz & Staehelin Offices
ROUTE DE CHÊNE 30
1211 GENEVA 6
Switzerland
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Mr Guy Vermeil
Work Department
Technology, Media & Telecoms, Outsourcing (ITO, BPO transactions), Corporate and M&A, Bankruptcy and Reorganization of Distressed Companies, Commercial and Contracts, Private Clients
Position
Partner, Head of Technology and Outsourcing
Career
Admission to Geneva Bar (1988), Admission to New York Bar (1990), Associate at Lenz & Staehelin (1991), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (1997)
Languages
French, English, German
Memberships
Geneva Bar Association (OdA), Swiss Bar Association (SAV), International Bar Association (IBA), Association Genevoise de Droit des Affaires (AGDA), Member of the Council of the Geneva Bar Association (since 2007)
Education
University of Geneva (lic. iur. 1984), Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina (LL. M. 1989)
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > TMT
(Leading individuals)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.
Switzerland > Data privacy and data protection
Praised for its ‘excellent technical knowledge’ and ‘pragmatic approach’, Lenz & Staehelin is well positioned to advise clients on big data, data security and outsourcing, with capabilities across several jurisdictions. Guy Vermeil, Lukas Morscher and Jürg Simon jointly helm the practice. Vermeil leverages his broad experience in IT and outsourcing matters to bolster the team, with Morscher contributing his expertise in technology, financial services and business sourcing to the practice. Simon fuses his knowledge in IP and competition to handle matters arising in the data privacy and protection space.
Switzerland > Healthcare and life sciences
The team at Lenz & Staehelin acts for a broad range of clients across the biotech, diagnostics, and medical device industries on a wide range of matters, including IP disputes concerning supplementary protection certificates (SPC), and generics and biosimilars. The team is jointly led by Thierry Calame, Harold Frey, Xavier Favre-Bulle, Andreas Rötheli, and Guy Vermeil. In Geneva, Rötheli handles private equity buyouts and real estate issues; Vermeil maintains a technology and outsourcing based practice; and Favre-Bulle is noted for his longstanding experience in arbitrations concerning licences, joint ventures, and post-M&A disputes. In Zurich, IP expert Calame assists clients with licensing issues and copy right litigation, while Frey often handles international arbitrations and cases before Swiss courts, with his main area of focus being general contractual disputes.
Lawyer Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection Switzerland
- Leading individuals Switzerland > TMT
- Healthcare and life sciences Switzerland
- TMT Switzerland
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Geneva
- Banking and finance: Zurich
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Intellectual property
- Private client
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
- Tax