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Wartmann Merker is a business law firm with offices in the city center of Zurich.

Our practice focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration and advice in matters of commercial law.

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Giovanna Montanaro moderated the panel on "Multimodal transport: technical and legal issues in worldwide port to port and door to door shipments" at the IBA 2020 Virtually... more

As of the end of September, we have incorporated our firm into a corporation under Swiss law (Aktiengesellschaft), thereby adapating a more adequate legal form for rendering our legal services. We look forward to building on our strength in the fields of dispute resolution, corporate law and transport and insurance law. more

Under Swiss law, lawyer's fees that are contingent upon the success of a legal matter are only permitted within narrow limits. In his article published in Anwaltsrevue 5/20, Franco Strub examines this restriction of the freedom of contract from a law and economics perspective. The result of his analysis questions the existing regulation of the contingency fee and shows the necessity of a renewed legislative debate on the subject (Anwaltsrevue 5/20, p. 211 ff.). more

Giovanna Montanaro spoke on the topic "Force Majeure – where are the risks for the shipper?" on the Swiss Shippers' Forum on 29 January 2020 in Interlaken. more