Dr. Merens Cahannes, LL.M.

• Swiss Bar Admission (2021)

• University of Zurich, Dr. iur. (2019) (awarded the Professor Walther Hug Prize)

• Maastricht University, LL.M. (2015)

• University of Zurich, MLaw (2015)

• University of Zurich, BLaw (2013)

• Associate (2024-2025) and Senior Associate (since 2025) at Wartmann Merker

• Associate at Baker McKenzie in Zurich (2022–2024)

• Auditor and Law Clerk at the District Court of Zurich (2018–2020)

• Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Hans Caspar von der Crone, University of Zurich (2016–2018)

• Banking Apprenticeship at Credit Suisse (2004–2007)

• Advising a Swiss corporation on the formation of a joint venture with a Chinese public company, including drafting/negotiating the JV agreement and restructuring the Swiss corporation in the run-up to the transaction.

• Represented a Swiss company as a third party in mutual legal assistance proceeding (international legal assistance in criminal matters).

• Assisting a trader in protecting his rights related to inventory discrepancies amounting to millions of USD.

• Representing a Swiss company as the plaintiff in an action to void a transaction due to fraud or mistake.

• Acting for a Swiss company in court regarding a post-M&A dispute.

• Representing a group of minority shareholders of a Swiss company in a dispute against the majority shareholders and the board of directors, including a challenge to the AGM resolution and an action for information.

• Supporting a global bank in defending itself against liability claims filed in the USA, applying Swiss law.

• Supported a number of foreign financial companies with the collection of evidence in Switzerland through legal assistance.

• Zurich and Swiss Bar Association

• Short Selling – how it works and how it is regulated in Switzerland, in: Private 3/2025, pp. 26 f.

• Chapter "Social Insurance Law," in: Baker McKenzie Zurich (ed.), Business Law 2023: Trends & Developments, Zurich/Geneva 2023, pp. 67 ff. (together with Christoph Stutz and Kaspar Projer)

• Chapter "Social Insurance Law," in: Baker McKenzie Zurich (ed.), Business Law 2022: Trends & Developments, Zurich/Geneva 2022, pp. 43 ff. (together with Kaspar Projer)

• Short Selling, doctoral thesis, Zurich 2019

• "The Societas Unius Personae (SUP) from a Swiss Perspective," in: Pascal Grolimund/Alfred Koller/Leander D. Loacker/Wolfgang Portmann (eds.), Festschrift for Anton K. Schnyder, Zurich/Basel/Geneva 2018, pp. 1069 ff. (together with Hans Caspar von der Crone)

• "The Casting Vote in General Meetings in Light of the Principle of Due Exercise of Rights," in: SZW 89 (2017), pp. 381 ff. (together with Hans Caspar von der Crone)

• Arthur Meier-Hayoz/Hans Caspar von der Crone, Securities Law, 3rd ed., Bern 2018 (contributor)

• "Falling Below the Minimum Number of Members in Cooperatives," in: SZW 88 (2016), pp. 340 ff. (together with Hans Caspar von der Crone)

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