Competition/Antitrust

Schellenberg Wittmer’s Competition Group comprises leading experts who specialise in competition law matters. We advise and represent clients in all aspects of competition law concerning commercial practices and agreements, and merger control filings. Our lawyers have broad experience and excellent training in Swiss and EU competition law, and we are one of the few Swiss firms to offer the full range of competition law skills and resources.

Expertise:

• Merger control: we represent clients in complex merger control proceedings in Switzerland and coordinate international notifications
• Investigations: we represent clients in competition law investigations by the Swiss Competition Commission and appeal proceedings before the federal courts, with special expertise in cartel, dominance and distribution cases (construction, luxury goods, electronics, print media, broadcasting, telecommunication, electricity, gas, payment cards, retail, etc.)
• General competition advice

• Leniency and settlement
• We prepare clients for and assist them in dawn raids by the Swiss Competition Commission
• Internal investigations: we handle complex internal investigations processes in the context of competition law investigations or mock reviews, using our own document review platform and specialist internal review teams

• Compliance: we provide compliance programmes, training, e-learning and audits for Swiss and international clients