Dr. Marco Balmelli

Attorney at Law and Notary, Partner

My entrepreneurial consulting approach and interdisciplinary practice are key to the successful outcomes I achieve on behalf of my clients.

About

Dr. Marco Balmelli is on the board of directors of several Swiss and international companies, especially larger medium-sized family businesses. He advises on national and international M&A transactions, joint ventures, and corporate successions. He is an experienced specialist in corporate and real estate law, preferably for advising entrepreneurs and companies; he also serves as a notary. Dr. Marco Balmelli is also a judge at the CAS/TAS Sports Arbitration Court in Lausanne and an expert in sports law.

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Stephanie Thieme
 
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Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
Recommended for corporate law, M&A by Legal500 and Chambers
Recommended by Swiss Lawyers of the Year

Expertise

Practice Areas

Construction and Real Estate
Corporate and Business Law / M&A
Insolvency and Restructuring
Notary Services
Private Clients
Arbitration

Sectors

Industry and Trade
Venture Capital and Private Equity

Experience

Ranking & Awards
Board of Directors and association mandates
Career
Memberships
Education
Further Activities
  • Recommended for corporate law, M&A by Legal500 and Chambers
  • Practice groups: M&A, capital market and corporate law; construction, real estate and industrial facilities; notary’s office; sports law
  • Chairman and/or member of the board of directors of several national and international companies
  • Member of the board of trustees of the Basel Institute on Governance
  • Since 1999: Attorney at law and notary at Gfeller, Christen, Hentz, Basel, now trading as Kellerhals Carrard
  • 1999: Legal assistant at Chiomenti Studio Legale, Milan
  • 1996–1999: Legal assistant at the former Swiss Bank Corporation
  • 1993–1996: Research assistant at the University of Basel, Chair of Prof. Dr. Mark Pieth and Prof. Dr. Adrian Staehelin
  • Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
  • Judge at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (CAS/TAS)
  • Chairman and board member of several national and international companies
  • Board member of the Basel Institute on Governance
  • 1998: Admitted as a notary
  • 1997: Admitted to the bar
  • 1996: Dr. iur., universities of Basel and Lausanne
  • 1993: lic. iur.
  • BALMELLI, Die Bestechungstatbestände des schweizerischen Strafgesetzbuches, Bern 1996 (Diss. Basel 1996)
  • Amstutz/Breitschmid et al. (ed.), Handkommentar zum Schweizer Privatrecht [Handkommentar zum Schweizer Privatrecht], Basel and elsewhere 2007/2012
    Commentary on Art. 516 to 529 O
  • BALMELLI, Entschädigung von Sportlern: Erscheinungsformen, rechtliche Qualifikation und Vertragsgestaltung, in: Arter/Baddeley (ed.), Sport und Recht, Bern 2007
  • Anmerkungen zu Überprüfung des Auswahlverfahrens zur Olympiateilnahme, Spurt 2006 (with Andrea Schmutz)
  • Rechtsfolge bei Absage bzw. Verschiebung von Sportgrossveranstaltungen unter Schweizer Recht, Spurt 2005 (with Oliver Kronenberg)
  • Ausländerklauseln im Schweizer Spitzensport aus Athletensicht, in: jusletter of 29 March 2004
  • Auswirkungen des Personenfreizügigkeitsabkommens auf Ausländerklauseln im Schweizer Spitzensport, Spurt 4/2002 (with PD Dr. Pascal Grolimund), pp. 171 ff.

News

NewsDeals & Cases
5. December 2024

Deal Ticker: Kellerhals Carrard advises Partners Group on the Acquisition of Empira

NewsDeals & Cases
28. June 2024

Deal Ticker: Kellerhals Carrard Advises Rhenopharma Group in Acquisition of Konapharma AG

NewsNewsletter
20. October 2022

Newsletter #3 10/2022 The inheritance law reform - what will change as of 1 January 2023?

NewsDeals & Cases
24. May 2022

Kellerhals Carrard advises private shareholders of Ladenbau Schmidt AG on a Management Buy-Out

NewsDeals & Cases
26. January 2022

Deal-Ticker: Kellerhals Carrard advises the Shareholders of Webland on the Sale

NewsDeals & Cases
19. January 2022

Deal-Ticker: KC unterstützte die Eigentümerin eines Immobilien-Portfolios bei dessen Verkauf an die Baloise Asset Management AG

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Conferences

ConferencesSpeaking Engagements

Discussion of CAS OG 06/002 Andrea Schuler/Swiss Olympic Association & Swiss Ski Federation (Überprüfung des Auswahlverfahrens zur Olympiateilnahme), SpuRt 3/2006, p. 113 et seqq. (together with Dr. Marco Balmelli).

Dr. Marco Balmelli
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Contact

Basel

Henric Petri-Strasse 35
P.O. Box 257
CH-4010 Basel

Tel. +41 58 200 30 00
Fax +41 58 200 30 11

info@kellerhals-carrard.ch

Contact

Dr. Marco Balmelli
Tel. +41 58 200 30 00
Fax +41 58 200 30 11
marco.balmelli@kellerhals-carrard.ch

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