Dr iur Marcel Dietrich > Homburger > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile

Homburger offers a full-service real estate practice covering transactional work, contractual and regulatory aspects of property development, construction, and leases. The team draws on the expertise of its regulatory, financing, capital market, and tax groups. The practice is headed by Daniel Hasler, who has a focus on transactional and corporate work in the real estate market, and Stefan Gäumann, who has extensive knowledge in real estate and construction matters. A notable team member is Marcel Dietrich, who specialises in advising and representing his real estate clients in administrative and public procurement matters. At associate level, Olivier Bühlmann focuses purely on transactional real estate matters.

Routinely operating for blue-chip corporations, Homburger’s ‘strong and experienced’ competition practice possesses demonstrable capabilities in large-scale, multi-jurisdictional merger control procedures. ‘Extremely experienced’ practice head Marcel Dietrich and ‘consummate professional’ Franz Hoffet both have more than 30 years of experience in the competition sphere. Richard Stäuber bolsters the practice with his know-how across competition law investigations, merger control proceedings and distribution arrangements, among others.

Homburger advises high-profile clients active in the automotive industry on regulatory matters, distribution, manufacturing, and transactions. The team also utilises the knowledge of specialists from other departments such as competition, dispute resolution, corporate, capital markets, finance, tax, and IP. Practice head Marcel Dietrich advises clients in the transport industry on regulatory issues, compliance, and investigations. Franz Hoffet has a special focus on aviation.

Utilising its cross-border expertise, Homburger’s ‘very skilled’ practice provides considerable know-how to clients seeking assistance with criminal investigations and proceedings, extracting knowledge from other strong practice areas at the firm, including its banking, corporate and IP departments. Vastly experienced co-lead Flavio Romerio is a strong choice for large-scale internal investigations mandates, and fellow co-lead Claudio Bazzani incorporates a diverse multitude of internal and regulatory investigations as well as compliance issues in his arsenal of skills. Bazzani is praised for his provision of ‘tactically smart advice’ to clients. Alongside them, Marcel Dietrich’s commercial, public and administrative law experience is regularly capitalised on by Swiss and foreign governmental agencies.

Homburger has comprehensive knowledge of the public law aspects of regulated sectors, including the financial services, energy, life sciences, and construction industries. The team is co-headed by Marcel Dietrich, who has extensive experience in supporting clients with a range of regulatory matters, and Mariella Orelli, who specialises in international dispute resolution and has expertise in regulated industries. Regulatory and competition law expert Franz Hoffet supports the team. Richard Stäuber specialises in Swiss and European competition law, as well as compliance issues.