Dr Thierry Calame > Lenz & Staehelin > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
Lenz & Staehelin Offices
BRANDSCHENKESTRASSE 24
8027 ZURICH
Switzerland
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Dr Thierry Calame
Work Department
Intellectual Property, Litigation and Arbitration, Patent, Copyright, Trademark and other IP-related Litigation, Licensing, Unfair Competition, Technology, Media & Telecoms
Position
Managing Partner, Co-Head of Intellectual Property
Career
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Germany (1995), Admission to Zurich Bar (1996), Joined Lenz & Staehelin (1996), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (2002)
Languages
German, English, French
Memberships
European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), International Trademark Association (INTA), Licensing Executives Society (LES), International Bar Association (IBA), Swiss Bar Association (SAV), Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR), Institut für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (INGRES), Schweizer Forum für Kommunikationsrecht (SF-FS)
Education
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ (Dipl. nat. sc. ETH, 1991), University of St.Gallen (lic. iur., 1994), University of Santa Clara, USA (1998), University of St.Gallen (Dr. iur., 2001)
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Intellectual property
(Hall of Fame)Lenz & Staehelin provides a full service intellectual property offering and has been praised by clients as ‘without doubt one of the leading – if not the leading – IP teams’. The practice acts for major household-name companies in fields such as food, technology and broadcasting. Thierry Calame and Jürg Simon, both highly experienced IP experts, co-head the practice alongside Sevan Antreasyan, whose promotion to partner in January 2022 has bolstered the group’s senior strength. Peter Ling is also recommended for his experience in patent and trade mark litigation.
Switzerland > Healthcare and life sciences
Lenz & Staehelin’s practice and experience covers a full spectrum of legal support, ranging from complex patent litigations, with a particular emphasis on pharmaceutical patent litigation, through to projects and M&A. Notable names include Xavier Favre-Bulle , Andreas Rötheli, Guy Vermeil , Thierry Calame , Harold Frey and Stephan Erni .
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: arbitration
Praised as ‘one of the best law firms in Europe for international arbitration’, Lenz & Staehelin handles disputes under the rules of all major institutions, as well as ad-hoc arbitration proceedings. The group fields practitioners qualified in a range of foreign jurisdictions, and has experience in a diverse range of sectors, including the pharmaceuticals industry, state contracts, and construction and engineering projects. Construction and M&A dispute specialist Harold Frey co-leads the practice alongside ‘fabulous arbitrator’ and president of the Arbitration Court of the Swiss Arbitration Centre Xavier Favre-Bulle. Other key team members include commercial dispute expert Martin Burkhardt, IP specialist Thierry Calame, and counsel Martin Aebi. Counsel Hanno Wehland has expertise in commercial and investment treaty arbitration proceedings.
Switzerland > Leading firms: German-speaking Switzerland
Lenz & Staehelin‘s full service offering includes work in the intellectual property field, employment matters, arbitration, and banking and finance. Key names to note are managing partner Thierry Calame, banking and finance experts Marcel Tranchet and Patrick Hünerwadel, capital markets-focused Patrick Schleiffer, corporate M&A specialists Lukas Morscher and Simone Ehrsam, dispute resolution expert Harold Frey, Astrid Waser, who advises on competition law, and Tanja Luginbühl, an expert in insolvency and restructuring matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Dispute resolution: arbitration Switzerland
- Hall of Fame Switzerland > Intellectual property
- Intellectual property Switzerland
- Leading firms: German-speaking Switzerland Switzerland
- Healthcare and life sciences 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
- Employment
- Intellectual property
- Leading firms: French-speaking Switzerland
- Leading firms: German-speaking Switzerland
- Private client
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
- Tax