Services

Meili l Pfortmüller is a firm of lawyers specializing in media, communication, entertainment and the arts. 

In these areas, we can represent you in legal proceedings and communications crises, can edit tailor-made contracts, develop business concepts and support you in developing your business; furthermore, we can help you to establish the necessary legal, commercial and human-resources structures. We offer expert opinions in legal disputes, develop and check quality control systems (e.g. in syndicated media content) and produce risk-assessments. Our constant goal is to offer you a clear, well-grounded basis on which to make decisions.

 
Media 

Our years of experience in the media allow us to offer consultancy and representation in all questions of media law, including:

• Protection of personality, defamation law
• Press law
• Law in electronic media (online, TV, radio, mobile, film, QM)
• Contract and company law
• Advertising, copyright and employment law
• Competition law

Further to this, we offer our clients our extensive knowledge in management consultancy. Implementing business ideas; managing, developing and planning for business; launching products: we consult in these areas. In addition, we – along with our network partners – will support you in selecting and coaching managers, as well as linking you with the best service providers in HR, strategy and more.

 
Communication 

Thanks to our large network in the media, communications and telecommunications – both within Switzerland and abroad – we are able to offer solutions to all kinds of problems in communications:

• Telecommunications and broadcast law
• ICT law (IT, etc.)
• Data protection
• Capital Market information

We cooperate with renowned experts in terms of communication in crises.
We advise listed companies in questions related to mandatory internal and external communications arising from stock market listing (ad-hoc publicity, etc).

 
Entertainment

We offer advice – both legal and business – in all questions related to entertainment in the widest sense of the word. 
Our experience and our network allow us to offer, in cooperation with various acknowledged experts in the field, a comprehensive range of services:

• Comprehensive legal and tax advice
• Developing high-quality events (e.g. turning a novel into a circus performance)
• Finance (including acquiring and keeping sponsors)
• Structuring and restructuring
• Taking over management and/or agency tasks
• Carrying out HR work
• Taking over mandates (associations, charities, etc)

 
Arts

We offer advice in all questions relating to the arts in the widest sense of the word; in particular, all pictorial art, photography, literature, opera, theatre, architecture, fashion, in both legal and business terms.
Our experience and our network allow us to offer, in cooperation with various acknowledged experts in the field, a comprehensive range of services:

• Comprehensive legal and tax advice
• Developing high-quality events (e.g. developing and implementing an “Opera Mobile” or an exhibition)
• Finance (including acquiring and keeping sponsors)
• Structuring and restructuring, including inheritance planning (including in the pictorial arts)
• Taking over management and/or agency tasks
• Carrying out HR work
• Taking over mandates (associations, charities, etc)