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Lorenza Ferrari Hofer is head of Pestalozzi’s IP & TMT practice group and a member of the Corporate / M&A practice group in Zurich. Her fields of expertise include intellectual property, unfair competition, data protection and contract law. She has years of experience in the development, licensing, trade and distribution of technology, as well as of therapeutic, health and food products (including product liability matters). Lorenza Ferrari Hofer deals with both commercial and litigious matters. She regularly lectures and publishes in the fields of international licensing and technology transfer, and on several areas of unfair competition and intellectual property law. Lorenza Ferrari Hofer is a member of various national and international organizations, such as AIPPI (president of the Swiss national group), IBA, INTA, INGRES, and LES. She is consistently recommended by the leading directories of the legal profession such as Legal 500 Chambers Europe, Who's Who Legal and IAM.

Lorenza Ferrari Hofer graduated from the University of Basle (Dr. iur. 1993) and was admitted to the bar in 1995. In 2005, she qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales. Lorenza Ferrari Hofer began her professional career at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, where she worked in the Trademark Department before taking on specific tasks in connection with WTO Law (TRIPs Agreement) and UN Law (Convention on Biological Diversity). She subsequently worked for several years as an in-house lawyer for a major Swiss watch and micromechanics manufacturer. She joined Pestalozzi in 2002 and became a partner in 2008. Her professional languages are German, Italian, English and French.

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contact

Lorenza Ferrari Hofer
Partner
Loewenstrasse 1, CH-8001 Zürich
Phone (direct) +41 44 217 92 57
lorenza.ferrari(at)pestalozzilaw.com
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Expertise

Commercial, Commercial Disputes, Contracts, Copyright, Data Protection & Privacy, Dispute Resolution, Food, Health & Safety, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Licensing & Sponsoring, Litigation, Media, New Technologies, Patents, Product Liability, Sports, Trade & Retail, Trademarks, Unfair Competition

Languages

German, Italian, English, French

Admission

Switzerland 1995, England and Wales 2005 (not practicing)

Memberships

AIPPI (president Swiss group), LES, IBA, INTA, INGRES