Lorine Meylan
LL.M., Attorney at law, Partner
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Lorine Meylan regularly advises national and multinational companies – ranging from start-ups and independent entrepreneurs to SMEs and large companies – on commercial law (commercial contracts and transactions), corporate law, corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, venture capital and private equity.
She also specialises in intellectual property (in particular, trademarks, copyright, new technologies and innovation) and employment law.
Lorine Meylan regularly advises national and multinational companies ranging from start-ups and independent entrepreneurs to SMEs and large companies on various matters, including:
- General commercial and corporate law matters (including corporate housekeeping)
- Drafting and negotiating legal documentation for mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions
- Drafting and negotiating legal documentation for financing transactions and granting securities and guarantees
- Drafting and negotiating all types of commercial and intellectual property/R&D contracts
- Intellectual property matters (in particular trademark and copyright law), including trademark registration and portfolio management, as well as the set up and acquisition of companies holding intellectual property rights
- Employment law
Lorine Meylan has extensive in-house legal experience, frequently working on secondments, where she has developed comprehensive, hands-on knowledge of a company’s inner workings and strategic management of projects and litigation. She also offers secondment services.
In addition, Lorine Meylan regularly advises members of boards of directors and executive management on corporate governance and best practices. She also serves as a director on the boards of companies.
Lorine Meylan has broad experience advising authors, artists (including their successors in title), producers and directors on the management, protection and exploitation of copyrights and related rights in Switzerland and abroad.
Professional Experience
2019 Partner, Junod, Muhlstein, Lévy & Puder
2008 – 2019 Associate, then senior associate in leading Geneva law firms
2005 – 2007 Trainee lawyer, Lalive, Geneva
2001 – 2004 Legal internships in New York, USA (United Nations/American Arbitration Association)
Education and admission
2018 Training course for members of boards of directors, Swiss Board Institute, HEC Lausanne and University of St. Gallen
2007 Admission to the bar, Geneva
2004 Master of Advanced Studies (MAS/LL.M.) in Business Law, Universities of Geneva and Lausanne (“with honours“)
2001 Law degree (lic. iur.), University of Lausanne
Additional professional activities
Since 2016 Member, Federal Arbitration Commission for the Administration of Copyright and Related Rights (ESchK/CAF)
Member of various professional associations:
- Member of the Geneva Bar Association (OdA)
- Swiss Bar Association (SBA)
- Swiss Institute of Directors (SIoD)
- Swiss Board Network
- Swiss LegalTech Association
- Swiss Group, International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI Switzerland)
- French-Speaking Switzerland Association for Intellectual Property (AROPI)
- Club of the Centre for Business Law – Industrial Law, Copyright, Commercial Law – of the University of Lausanne (CEDIDAC)
- Women’s Business Society (WBS)
French, English
Publications & Conferences
Company Law (2023)
Réforme du droit de la société anonyme – Quels changements pour les administrateurs ? (Lorine Meylan et Alain Bruno Lévy, in Focus - Droit & Business Solutions, PME Magazine, novembre 2023)
Innovation in Switzerland (2021)
On Friday 17 September 2021, our partner Lorine Meylan will co-organize with Marie-Hélène Revaz, Tax Expert and Executive Director at Mazars SA, an EXPERTsuisse…
EXPERTsuisse Seminar (2019)
EXPERTsuisse Seminar, "L’innovation en Suisse : les enjeux juridiques, fiscaux et comptables", co-organised with Marie-Hélène Revaz, Mazars SA
Les Marques dans la Pratique (2012-2013)
Course entitled "Les Marques dans la Pratique" as part of the Intellectual Property course of the Faculty of HEC at the University of Geneva