Lawyers

Dr. Jürg Borer

Partner

Personal Information

Bar Admission: Switzerland 1990
Office: Zurich
Languages: German, English, French

Areas of practice

Competition and Antitrust; Intellectual Property / Information Technology

Get to know Jürg Borer

Jürg Borer is a partner in our Zurich office and he heads our firm’s Competition Group. His main areas of practice are Swiss and European competition law, communication law, and energy law. As a leading expert in competition law, he regularly advises clients in high-profile competition investigations and merger control proceedings as well as in competition law matters in civil courts.

A graduate of the University of St. Gallen (first degree 1982; doctorate 1988), he was admitted to the Swiss bar in 1990. He began his career as a legal secretary with the Swiss Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne and conducted legal research work at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to joining us in 2006, he worked as an associate in a London and then a Zurich law firm and became a partner in another large business law firm in Zurich.

Jürg Borer is a lecturer at the University of Zurich and the University of Lucerne and has authored several publications on Swiss and European competition law, including a commentary on the Swiss Federal Act on Cartels.

Selected deals and cases

  • Counsel in merger control proceedings concerning the Swiss retail business

Recognitions

  • Chambers Europe: Band 1, Who's Who Legal, PLC Which Lawyer (Competition Law) 
  • Legal 500: Band 1 (EU, Competition and WTO; TMT)
  • Expert Guide: The Best of the Best (Competition)

Contact

Dr. Jürg Borer
Schellenberg Wittmer / Attorneys at Law
Löwenstrasse 19 / P.O. Box 1876
8021 Zurich / Switzerland
D +41 44 215 5299
T +41 44 215 5252
F +41 44 215 5200