Sevan Antreasyan

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Competition, Commercial and Contracts, Technology and Outsourcing, Litigation and Arbitration

Career

Sevan Antreasyan is a partner specialising in intellectual property, technology and life sciences matters. He assists clients at all stages of the development of commercial transactions in these fields, covering licensing, sale and divestment of IP assets, R&D and collaboration projects, distribution, public-private partnerships, sponsoring agreements and joint ventures. Sevan also acts as counsel to clients in litigation, with a particular focus on trademarks, IP contracts and technology, and advises clients on all their IP, as well as life sciences regulatory matters. When he’s not drafting contracts or legal briefs, Sevan writes software code.

University of Geneva (BLaw, 2006), University of Geneva (MLaw in Commercial Law, 2008), University of Geneva (Research & Teaching Assistant in Intellectual Property Law, Contract Law, Internet Law, 2009-11), UC Berkeley School of Law (Visiting Scholar at the Center for Law & Technology, 2012), Swiss Bar Admission (2015), Joined Lenz & Staehelin (2015) , University of Geneva (Dr. iur., 2016), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (2022)

Professional Memberships

International Trademark Association (INTA), Licensing Executives Society (LES), Institut für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (INGRES), Association Romande de Propriété Intellectuelle (AROPI), Geneva Bar Association (OdA)

Languages Spoken

French, English