Dr Marcel Meinhardt Partner Lenz & Staehelin - Lawyer Biography - International Law Office

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Lawyer Biography

Dr Marcel Meinhardt

Expertise

Dr. Marcel Meinhardt is a leading expert in competition law and is renowned for his broad, first-rate practice. He specialises in all areas of Swiss and European merger control work and competition law, particularly in the postal services, insurance, banking, motor-car, energy, media, retail, construction, pharma and ticketing sectors. Marcel Meinhardt also advises on regulatory issues in connection with the electricity and gas industry. He has been responsible for a large number of merger notifications to the Swiss Competition Commission and co-ordinated multi-jurisdictional filings. Marcel Meinhardt advises in contentious and non-contentious matters and has acted in high profile cases on alleged abuses of dominant positions and vertical restraints. He heads the competition and regulated practice group of Lenz & Staehelin.

Practice Areas

Competition, General Contract and Corporate, Energy and Regulated Markets, Litigation, Public Procurement, Telecoms & Media, Internal Investigations

Languages

German, English, French

Education and Professional Experience

  • 1990 University of St.Gallen (lic. iur.)
  • 1992 Admission to Zurich Bar
  • 1994 New York University School of Law (LL.M.)
  • 1995 College of Europe (LL.M.)
  • 1996 Joined Lenz & Staehelin
  • 1996 University of Zurich (Dr. iur.)
  • 2002 Partner at Lenz & Staehelin

Memberships

Swiss Association for Competition Law (ASAS), Zurich Bar
Association (ZAV), Swiss Bar Association (SAV), Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht eV., International Bar Association (IBA), American Bar Association (ABA)

Other Activities

  • Board member and secretary of the Swiss Association for Competition Law (Swiss member of the International League of Competition Law).
  • Regular speaker at Swiss and international competition law conferences.

Publications (Selection)

  • Meinhardt, M./Merkt, B./Waser, A., Cartel Regulation 2013, in: Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research, December 2012
  • Meinhardt, M./Merkt, B./Waser, A., Merger Control 2013, in: Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research, September 2012, 384-388
  • Meinhardt, M., Waser, A., Cabalzar, M., Telecoms and Media 2012 - Switzerland, in: Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research, May 2012, 465-473
  • Meinhardt, M./Labhart, O., Härtere Saiten im Korruptionsstrafrecht, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 6 March 2012
  • Meinhardt, M., Bischof, J., Zusammenschlussverbot Orange/Sunrise - Fehl- oder Leitentscheid der schweizerischen Wettbewerbskommission?, in: Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb WuW, issue 11, 4 november 2011, 1089
  • Meinhardt, M./Schwibs, N., Standardisierte Verträge im Stromhandel - der EFET-Rahmenvertrag, Zurich 2007, 103-119
  • Meinhardt, M. /Ahrens, J.-M., Wettbewerbsrecht und Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit in der Schweiz - Eine Würdigung des Entscheids des Bundesgerichts vom 8. März 2006, in: SchiedsVZ Zeitschrift für Schiedsverfahren, 4/2006
  • Meinhardt, M./Bischof, J., Nachfragemacht nach revidiertem Kartellrecht, in: Jusletter 17 october 2005
  • Meinhardt, M./Prümmer, F., Organisation des Einkaufs, in: Geiser/Krauskopf/Münch (eds.), Schweizerisches und europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht, Basel 2005
  • Meinhardt, M./Waser, A., The Revised Swiss Competition Law, Direct Fines, Leniency and Notification, in: European Competition Law Review 2005, 48
  • Meinhardt, M., Kommentierung von Art. 5, 6 und 22 FusG (Commentary on Certain Articles of the Merger Act), in: Watter/Vogt/Tschäni/Daeniker (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum schweizerischen Fusionsgesetz, Basel 2004
  • Meinhardt, M., Die Beschränkung nationaler Immaterialgüterrechte durch Artikel 86 EG - Vertrag unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der essential facilities doctrine, Doctoral Thesis, Zurich, Bern 1998