Firm & Awards

The 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in Switzerland recognises the professional excellence of 697 lawyers in 51 practice areas across the country. Lawyers who are nominated for consideration are voted on by currently recognised Best Lawyers working in the same practice area and located in the same geographic region. Their awards and recognitions are based purely on the feedback received from these top lawyers.

The peer-review publication, organised by practice area, lists the following MLL Legal lawyers, demonstrating the breadth and depth of their legal capabilities and recognition in the market:

• Martin Ammann – Labor and Employment Law
• Oliver Arter – Trusts and Estates and Wealth Management Practice
• Nicola Benz – Intellectual Property Law, Media Law, Technology Law, and Telecommunications Law
• Lukas Bühlmann – Advertising Law, Information Technology Law, Media Law, and Privacy and Data Security Law
• Serge Calame – Family Law and Wealth Management Practice
• Ulrike Ciesla – Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences Practice
• Frédéric Cottier – Corporate Law
• Guillaume Fournier – Intellectual Property Law
• Patricia Guerra – Family Law, Trusts and Estates, and Wealth Management Practice
• Walter Häberling – Labor and Employment Law
• Christoph Heiz – Capital Markets Law
• Simon Holzer – Intellectual Property Law and Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences Practice
• Markus Huber – Tax Law
• Bernard Lachenal – Wealth Management Practice
• Alain Le Fort – Corporate Law
• Samuel Ljubicic – Banking and Finance Law
• Catrina Luchsinger Gähwiler – Banking and Finance Law and Capital Markets Law
• Marcel Lustenberger – Arbitration and Mediation and Litigation
• Thomas Lustenberger – Corporate Law
• Wolfgang Müller – Real Estate Law
• Thomas Nahbolz – Tax Law
• Reinhard Oertli – Technology Law
• Dmitry A. Pentsov – Banking and Finance Law and Corporate Law
• Philippe Prost – Construction Law and Real Estate Law
• Michael Reinle – Administrative Law, Advertising Law, Biotechnology Law, and Information Technology Law
• Michael Ritscher – Intellectual Property Law and Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences Practice
• Guy-Philippe Rubeli – Labor and Employment Law
• Kilian Schärli – Intellectual Property Law, Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences Practice, and Technology Law
• Peter Schramm – Intellectual Property Law and Technology Law
• Stefan Schröter – Intellectual Property Law
• Andrea Sieber – Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Mona Stephenson – Banking and Finance Law and Corporate Law
• Leonard Stoyanov – Wealth Management Practice
• Julien Tron – Family Law
• Alexander Vogel – Banking and Finance Law and Corporate Law
• Nadine von Büren – Maier – Corporate Law and Intellectual Property Law

In addition to historic individual lawyer recognition, Best Lawyers recognised individuals who particularly stand out in their area of practice as Lawyer of the Year honorees. Lawyer of the Year awards are bestowed to only lawyers with the highest overall peer-feedback for a specific practice area and geographic region. They are determined based on a handful of factors, including feedback from lawyers recognised by Best Lawyers on individual lawyer and firm-wide work, the size and coverage of the firm in a specific practice area, historical analysis of the firm’s “Lawyer of the Year” awards in this area and research surrounding the firm’s overall scope and areas of expertise. This year, MLL Legal’s Head of the Patent and Life Sciences team Simon Holzer wins the Lawyer of the Year 2023 Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences award.

Best Lawyers® is a globally respected lawyer ranking service whose awards are published in leading local, regional and national publications across the globe. Handelsblatt, a leading Germany based, German language business newspaper,  has partnered with Best Lawyers®,to offer their readers an overview and directory of the leading law firms and lawyers in Europe’s German speaking countries of Germany, Switzerland and Austria.