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Gion Giger

Gion Giger

Counsel
Dr. iur., LL.M., Attorney at Law

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Zurich

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Direct phone: +41 58 658 56 18
gion.giger@walderwyss.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Areas of activity: Competition Commercial Contracts Public Law & Litigation

Gion Giger is counsel in the Antitrust and Competition Team. His preferred areas of practice include competition law, distribution law, contract and commercial law. In particular, he advises on legal issues at the interface of sector-specific regulation and competition law. Gion Giger represents undertakings before competition authorities and courts, and assists them in complex merger filings.

Born in 1975, Gion Giger was educated at the University of Berne (lic. iur. 1999), the University of Zurich (Dr. iur. 2003) and the King’s College London (LL.M. in Competition Law 2009). He has working experience as a research assistant at the Universities of Berne and Zurich, as a trainee with Walder Wyss and as a law clerk at the District Court of Horgen.

Gion Giger speaks German, English, French, Italian and Romansh. He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.

Merger Control

| by Gion Giger and Reto Jacobs [co-author] | in: Patrik Ducrey/Daniel Zimmerli (Editor[s]) | "Schweizerisches Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht, Kartellrecht, Band V/2" | Basel | pp. 311-420

Kartellrecht

 | by Daniel Zimmerli, Reto Jacobs, Gion Giger and Blaise Carron, Clémence Grisel Rapin, Andreas Heinemann, Bernhard Lauterburg, Vincent Martenet, Peter Georg Picht, Olivier Schaller, Felix Schraner, Luca Stäuble, Walter A. Stoffel, Pierre Tercier, Rolf H. Weber, Roger Zäch, Philipp E. Zurkinden | in: Patrik Ducrey, Daniel Zimmerli (Editor[s]) | "Schweizerisches Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht" | 2 | Basel

Doing Business in Switzerland – A Practical Guide

 | by Ramona Wyss, Andrea Haefeli, Gion Giger, David Vasella, Davide Cerutti, Marco Galli, Roger Staub, Manuel Bigler, Reto Jacobs, Monique Sturny, Thomas P. Müller, Nadja D. Leuthardt, Adriano Antonietti, Valentine Schnyder, Stefan Knobloch, Dimitrios Berger, Dominik Hohler, Letizia Schlegel, Stéphanie Oneyser, Urs P. Gnos, Dario Galli, Michael Kündig, Markus Vischer, Urs Schenker, Christian A. Schmid, Patrick W. Vogel, Alexander Sorton, Samuel Lieberherr, Daniel Dedeyan, Nico Bernhard, Theodor Härtsch, Tervel Stoyanov, Lukas Wyss, Markus Pfenninger, Valentin Wiesner, Rafal Szala, Thiemo Sturny, Roger Ammann, Hubertus Hillerström, Ken Savioz, Simone Wetzstein, Valentina Eichin, Irène Suter-Sieber, Olivier Sigg, Laura Luongo, Francis Nordmann, André Kuhn, Davide Jermini, Christian Eichenberger, Matthieu Seydoux, Thomas Meister, Janine Corti, Robert Desax, Fabienne Limacher, Dieter Hofmann, Rodolphe Gautier, Roxane Allot, Micha Bühler, Michael Feit, Maurice Courvoisier, Oliver M. Kunz and Pascale Köster | Editor[s]: Urs P. Gnos, Theodor Härtsch | ed.: 2nd edition

Commentary on articles 12-15 of the Swiss Cartel Act

| by Gion Giger [co-author] and Reto Jacobs [co-author] | in: Amstutz/Reinert (Editor[s]) | "Basler Kommentar Kartellgesetz" | 2. Aufl. | Basel

Doing Business in Switzerland – A Practical Guide

 | by Urs P. Gnos, Theodor Härtsch, Ramona Wyss, Andrea Haefeli, Gion Giger, David Vasella, Davide Cerutti, Marco Galli, Roger Staub, Benno Fischer-Siddiqui, Reto Jacobs, Monique Sturny, Thomas P. Müller, Nadja D. Leuthardt, Adriano Antonietti, Valentine Schnyder, Stefan Knobloch, Dimitrios Berger, Dominik Hohler, Jenny Süess, Stéphanie Oneyser, Dario Galli, Michael Kündig, Markus Vischer, Urs Schenker, Rafael Zemp, Patrick W. Vogel, Laurent Schmidt, Christian Lütolf, Daniel Dedeyan, Nico Bernhard, Tervel Stoyanov, Lukas Wyss, Markus Pfenninger, Valentin Wiesner, Rafal Szala, Thiemo Sturny, Roger Ammann, Hubertus Hillerström, Ken Savioz, Ueli Sommer, Simone Wetzstein, Christoph Stutz, Nadine Mäder, Olivier Sigg, Laura Luongo, Francis Nordmann, André Kuhn, Davide Jermini, Christian Eichenberger, Théo Meylan, Thomas Meister, Janine Corti, Robert Desax, Fabienne Limacher, Dieter Hofmann, Rodolphe Gautier, Olivia Sistovaris, Micha Bühler, Michael Feit, Maurice Courvoisier, Oliver M. Kunz, Albane de Ziegler and Pascale Köster | Editor[s]: Urs P. Gnos, Theodor Härtsch

Article 7 Cartel Act as an endangerment offence

| by Gion Giger and Daniel Zimmerli | in: dRSK

Distribution antitrust law for food and consumer goods

| by Gion Giger | Schulthess Verlag | Editor[s]: Daniel Donauer, Hugh Reeves, Celine Weber | "Lebensmittel- und Gebrauchsgegenständerecht" | ed.: 1st

Proposal for a solution of case IV

| by Gion Giger | in: Claire Huguenin/Basil Hotz (Editor[s]) | "Fälle zum Obligationenrecht, Band II: Besonderer Teil" | 2. Aufl. | Zurich/Basel/Geneva

§ 8 Impediments to performance (Articles 97-109 and 119 CO) and § 14 Conditions (Articles 151-157 CO)

| by Gion Giger | in: Claire Huguenin/Basil Hotz (Editor[s]) | "Fälle zum Obligationenrecht, Band I: Allgemeiner Teil" | 2. Aufl. | Zurich/Basel/Geneva

Franchising in Switzerland

| by Gion Giger | in: Lexology Navigator

International Franchise Handbook, 2nd Edition

 | by Gion Giger [co-author] and Andrea Haefeli [co-author] | in: DWF Germany Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH (Editor[s]) | "International Franchise Handbook, 2nd Edition" | 2nd Edition | Cologne, Germany | pp. 1-3/32-35

Swiss Federal Administrative Court confirms the Competition Commission's decision in the "Nikon" matter

| by Gion Giger | in: dRSK (Digitaler Rechtsprechungs-Kommentar)

Competition law from a lawyer"s perspective

 | Speaker Gion Giger | Fachvortrag Mitgliederversammlung BAV

Chapter on Switzerland

 | by Reto Jacobs [co-author] and Gion Giger [co-author] | in: Global Legal Group Ltd. (Editor[s]) | "The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Competition Litigation 2017" | 9th Edition | London | pp. 229–235

Interrogations in competition proceedings

 | Speaker Gion Giger | ZAV-Fachgruppe Wettbewerbsrecht | Zurich

The ordinary mandate (Commentary on articles 394–406 of the Swiss Code of Obligations)

| by Gion Giger [co-author] and Carole Gehrer Cordey [co-author] | in: Huguenin/Müller-Chen (Editor[s]) | "Handkommentar zum Schweizer Privatrecht" | 3. Auflage | Zurich

Competition law from a lawyer"s perspective

| by Gion Giger | in: Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung in Graubünden (ZGRG) 4/2016 | pp. 168–175

Interrogations by the Secretariat, in particular with respect to dawn raids

 | Speaker Gion Giger | Semesteraussprache der Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht (Arbeitsgruppe Schweiz) | Berne
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