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Consumer Products Lawyers

As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure, growing retailer buyer power, the rise of online selling and counterfeiting. All place new demands on your management and business strategy but also drive the need for legal advice. Our pan-European team is structured around the key sectors of consumer products including cosmetics, clothing, electronics, health & beauty, food & drink, retail, household equipment and manufacturing. Whether you are a supplier, investor, regulator or other stakeholder, we have consumer products experts to help, whatever your situation.

In order to give you the targeted legal advice your business needs, our teams have experts from every legal area affecting your sector. This means we can guide you on all legal and regulatory aspects − from the financing and acquisition of companies, through to antitrust and unfair competition law, media management, nutritional and health claims, advertising and marketing, strategies for the protection of intellectual property rights, data protection, outsourcing, distribution agreements, real estate transactions, product recalls and much more. Our experts will keep you abreast of the latest sector insight and developments, giving you a commercial, as well as a legal, edge.

 
Stefan Brunnschweiler
Stefan Brunnschweiler, LL.M.
Managing Partner
Switzerland, Zurich
Stefan Brunnschweiler is the managing partner of CMS Switzerland and heads the CMS Corporate/M&A Practice Area Group Switzerland. He was named one of the top 10 lawyers in Switzerland in the edition of...
Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser, LL.M.
Dr Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser, LL.M.
Partner
Co-Head of the practice groups TMC and IP
Switzerland, Zurich
Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser advises and represents national and international clients in connection with contentious and non-contentious issues relating to trademarks, designs, copyrights, patents, data...
Jerome Levrat
Jérôme Levrat
Partner
Head of Private Equity & Commercial Geneva
Switzerland, Geneva
Jérôme Levrat specialises in corporate law, private equity, venture capital, M&A and commercial matters. He regularly advises funds and companies (including in the industrial, distribution, health care...
Patrick Sommer
Dr Patrick Sommer, H.E.E.
Partner
Co-Head of Competition
Switzerland, Zurich
Patrick Sommer focuses on competition law, corporate law and M&A. Patrick Sommer has graduated from the University of St. Gallen in 1987 and was admitted to the bar in 1989. He has written his doctoral...
Yoann Lambert
Yoann Lambert
Senior Associate
Switzerland, Geneva
Yoann Lambert is a lawyer with the Dispute Resolution department of the CMS Geneva office. He is mainly active in economic and general criminal law, lease law, law of obligations, consumer law, family...
Aline Steffen
Aline Steffen-Züger
Senior Associate
Switzerland, Zurich
Aline Steffen's practice focuses primarily on arbitration and litigation as well as advising clients in all aspects of commercial law matters, in particular in the drafting of agreements and general terms...
Olivia Zingg
Olivia Zingg
Associate
Switzerland, Zurich
Olivia Zingg works as an associate in the IP and TMC practice group, where her professional focus centres primarily on legal issues relating to trademarks, designs, copyrights, data protection, unfair...