Media and Entertainment

Rolf Auf der Maur has since the beginning of his career as an attorney in 1992 concerned himself with the legal aspects of the Internet. In this way he is able to combine his interest for new communication technologies with his legal experience in an ideal manner. His clients include leading companies from the areas of media, the entertainment industry as well as telecommunications and information technology. In addition to his activities as an attorney, Rolf Auf der Maur publishes and speaks regularly on legal questions in connection with the Internet and is also entrepreneurial. He is considered the leading expert in Switzerland for legal questions for the interfacing of telecommunications, media and IT. The Directories “Chambers and Partners” and “Legal 500” recommend him for the area TMT (“1st tier”) and for intellectual property.

University of Zurich (lic. iur., 1988; Dr. iur., 1990)
continuing education in entertainment law at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA (1992)

• Intellectual Property (Teamleader)
• Media and Entertainment (Teamleader)
• Information and Communication Technology (Teamleader)
• Life Sciences, Pharma, Biotech
• Energy
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Private Clients

• Data Protection
• Intellectual Property
• Information Law
• IT Law
• Communication Law
• License Agreements
• Trademarks
• Online Law
• Law of Personality Rights
• Regulatory
• Technology Law
• Unfair Competition
• Advertising Law
• Competition Law

Vice-President of the Executive Board of simsa swiss interactive media and software association
Member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers
Vice-Chair of the Technology Law Committee of the International Bar Association
Licensing Executives Society
Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Proprièté Intellectuelle
Forum on Communication Law
Swiss Institute for Industrial Property

Court clerk
Associate with a mid-sized law firm specialising in intellectual property matters
Associate with an international law firm in Zurich
Intellectual property department of a leading law firm in London (1994)
Partner in a mid sized law firm in Zurich
Partner at VISCHER since 2000

Peter Hettich is Assistant Professor (tenure track) for Public Commercial law with regard to construction, planning and environmental law at the University of St. Gallen. He acts as the Director of the Research Department for Information Law (FIR-HSG) and as counsel for VISCHER. With his team he practices, researches and publishes in the areas of commercial constitutionality and regulated markets. These activities include Competition law, Domestic Market law, Commercial Supervisory law, Infrastructure law and the law relating to public companies.

University of St. Gallen (lic. iur. 1999; Dr. iur. 2003);
Columbia University School of Law, New York (LL.M. 2006)

• Real Estate
• Public Sector and Regulatory
• Energy
• Media and Entertainment
• Information and Communication Technology

• Public Economic Law
• Regulatory
• Administrative Law
• Antitrust Law
• Competition Law
• Public Medial Law
• Biotechnology Law
• Information Law
• Communication Law
• Constitutional Law
• Environmental Law
• Public Construction Law

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Swiss Association of Jurisprudents
Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.

Director of the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen (FIR-HSG)
Assistant Professor for Economic Constitutional Law, Regulated Markets, Regulation of Land Use, and Environmental Law at the University of St. Gallen
Lecturer for Market Regulation at the University of Basel
Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and at Columbia University School of Law, New York

Klaus Neff heads the competition law practice team at VISCHER. His practice focuses on all aspects of Swiss and European competition law. Klaus Neff regularly represents clients in antitrust related administrative and civil proceedings as well as in national and multinational merger control proceedings. In addition, his practice includes advice on compliance and internal investigations, regulated markets and public procurement. Further fields of expertise are contract and corporate law as well as mergers & acquisitions.

Universities of Zurich and Lausanne (lic. iur., 1994)
College of Europe, Bruges (LL.M., 1999)

• Antitrust and Competition (Teamleader)
• Real Estate
• Energy
• Media and Entertainment
• White Collar Crime

• Competition and Antitrust Law
• Corporate and Commercial
• Intellectual Property
• Antitrust Law
• M&A
• Contract Law
• Administrative Law

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.

Court clerk; Research assistant to the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich in the areas of Antitrust and Commercial Law; Associate with a major law firm in Zurich

Azra Dizdarevic-Hasic advises both companies and the public sector in questions of Energy law, Government Procurement law and general Administrative law. She represents clients in proceedings before administrative authorities and administrative courts as well as in administrative criminal proceedings. In addition she practices in the areas of law relating to food products, product security and aviation law.

University of St. Gallen, HSG (lic. iur., 2004; lic. oec., 2001)

• White Collar Crime
• Life Sciences, Pharma, Biotech
• Public Sector and Regulatory
• Energy
• Media and Entertainment
• Information and Communication Technology
• Aviation

• Technology Law
• Administrative Law
• Public International Law
• Competition Law
• White Collar Crime

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association

Assistant at the University of St. Gallen in the field of Constitutional and Administrative Law (especially Economic Constitutional and Economic Administrative Law)
Internship at the District Court of Meilen
Internship at the Coordination Unit EEA, Vaduz

Claudia Keller is primarily practicing in the areas Intellectual Property Law (in particular Trademark and Copyright law) as well as Media and Communication law. She advises media companies and companies in the advertising business in particular also in connection to legal requirements for new media and digital forms of advertising, including data information protection requirements particularly relevant in this area. Claudia Keller also assists companies in other fields in regard to the legal aspects of media, advertising and intellectual property law issues. Our clients are able to benefit especially from Claudia Keller’s interdisciplinary education in the area of Brand Management and Social Media Management.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 2001)
University of California, Hastings College of the Law (LL.M., 2004)
CAS Brand Management University of Lucerne (2007)
Social Media Manager (SOMEXCLOUD, 2011)

• Energy
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Public Sector and Regulatory
• Intellectual Property
• Media and Entertainment
• White Collar Crime

• Data Protection
• Information Law
• Communication Law
• Online Law
• Advertising Law

INGRES
INTA
Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association

Legal assistant at the Copyright Department of the Swiss Intellectual Property Institute
Internship with VISCHER, Attorneys at Law, Zurich
Internship with the Swiss Competition Commission
Internship with the Swiss Intellectual Property Institute

Rosana Pfaffhauser is predominantly practicing in the areas of Intellectual Property and Competition law. She regularly advises clients in the areas of Trademarks, Patent law and competition law. In the area of Intellectual Property and Competition law, Rosana Pfaffhauser is primarily concerned in preliminary measures and injunctions.

University of Lucerne (BLaw, 2005; MLaw, 2007)

• Life Sciences, Pharma, Biotech
• Antitrust and Competition
• Intellectual Property
• Media and Entertainment

• Intellectual Property
• Trademarks
• Patent Law
• Unfair Competition
• Antitrust Law
• Biotechnology Law

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association

Legal internship with Wenger & Vieli AG in Zurich and Zug

Matthias Seemann’s main focus is in the area of litigation. He specializes in issues of copyright law, labor law, personality law and association law. He also publishes regularly in these areas. He was previously an assistant at the chair in private law and labor law at the University of Zurich and has written a dissertation on copyright law which was awarded the Professor Walther Hug prize.

University of Zurich (lic. iur., 2000; Dr. iur. 2007)

• Employment Law
• Media and Entertainment
• Litigation, Arbitration

• Litigation
• License Agreements
• Labour Law
• Corporate and Commercial
• Law of Personality Rights
• Law of Associations (Swiss Verein)

Assistant with Prof. Dr. Wolfang Portmann, Chair of Civil and Employment Law, University of Zurich
Internship with a law firm

Carole Sorg specializes in civil procedural law, advising and representing individuals and companies in proceedings before Swiss courts and authorities. Clients benefit in particular from her many years’ experience in the courts and her work as chair of the Conciliation Board for Tenancy Matters. As a result of her previous work she has also in-depth knowledge of labor, leasing and general contract law.

University of Zurich (lic. iur., 2006)

• Employment Law
• Media and Entertainment
• Litigation, Arbitration

• Litigation
• Debt Enforcement Law
• Bankruptcy Law
• Tenancy Law
• Labour Law
• Contract and Commercial Law

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association

Chairwoman of the mediation authority in tenancy matters
Court Clerk at the district court of Uster

Thomas Steiner has been a Research Fellow at the i-call Research Centre of the University of Lucerne where he focused his research on the legal and regulatory conditions for new digital media and online business models. As an attorney, he uses the acquired competences and offers to our clients tailored solutions, mainly in the areas of Advertising Law, Data Protection, Media and Communications Law and Online Law. Thomas Steiner is also the co-editor in chief for Broadcasting Law of medialex (Swiss Journal of Media Law).

University of Lucerne (MLaw, 2007; Dr. iur., 2009)

• Antitrust and Competition
• Intellectual Property
• Media and Entertainment
• Information and Communication Technology

• Data Protection
• Intellectual Property
• Information Law
• IT Law
• Communication Law
• Public Medial Law
• Online Law
• Advertising Law
• Competition Law

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Lucerne Lawyers Association

Trainee Lawyer in Lucerne (Die Advokatur Sury GmbH) and Zurich (VISCHER)
Research Fellow at the i-call (International Communications & Art Law Lucerne)
Research Centre of the University of Lucerne
Trainee at the Swiss Federal Chancellery, Legal Department