Patrick Sommer

Practice Areas

Competition & EU; Corporate/M&A; Life Sciences; Consumer Products; Commercial.

Career

University of St.Gallen (lic. iur., 1987; Dr iur., 1989); Bar Admission in 1989; College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium) (H.E.E., 1991); worked for seven years in the legal department of a Swiss multinational group where he has been promoted to the offices of General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Directors (1991-1999); joined CMS in 2000; Partner since 2002.

Professional Memberships

Zurich Bar; Swiss Bar; international advisory board of the “St. Gallen International Competition Forum”; Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht.

Personal

Languages: German, English, French.

Webpage: https://cms.law/en/che/people/patrick-sommer