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Dr iur Monique Sturny

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Work Department

Competition & Antitrust

Position

Partner

Career

Monique Sturny is a partner at Walder Wyss. She advises companies on all aspects of competition law and distribution law matters, assists them in merger control proceedings and represents them in proceedings before competition authorities and courts. She has extensive experience with respect to setting up of distribution systems and negotiating complex cooperation agreements. She handles matters across a wide range of sectors, with particular in-depth knowledge in the healthcare sector and with respect to legal issues relating to data and the digital economy. She regularly speaks and publishes in her fields of expertise.

Before joining Walder Wyss in 2013, she worked for a major law firm in Zurich for several years.

Languages

Monique Sturny's professional languages are German, English and French.

Memberships

In 2020, the Swiss Competition Commission appointed Monique Sturny as Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN) for the coming three years. Monique Sturny is a co-founder and board member of Women At Competition Switzerland, a network connecting female competition law professionals in Switzerland. In addition, she co-chairs the Schulthess Juristische Medien Ltd.’s conference on competition law and is a co-editor of the Swiss Journal for Competition Law.

Education

Monique Sturny was educated at the University of Fribourg (lic. iur., 2002, with special mentions «European Law» and «bilingual» German-French) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LL.M. in International Business Law, 2007). She has written a doctoral thesis on the influence of EU law on the development of Swiss competition law at the University of Berne (Dr. iur., summa cum laude, 2013).