Associate
David Ballmer
Zurich, Switzerland
Associate
David Ballmer
Zurich, Switzerland
Portrait
David Ballmer ist an attorney specialising in intellectual property law. He regularly drafts and negotiates licence, R&D and distribution agreements. His practice also includes advising and representing clients in intellectual property and licence agreement matters.
David Ballmer lectures on the the law of innominate contracts at the University of Basel. He regularly publishes on topics related to intellectual property, contract and corporate law.
David Ballmer lectures on the the law of innominate contracts at the University of Basel. He regularly publishes on topics related to intellectual property, contract and corporate law.
- Associate at Bär & Karrer (since 2026)
- Judge at the Criminal Court of Basel-Stadt (since 2025)
- Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (2025)
- Lecturer at the University of Basel (since 2024)
- Admitted to the Bar (2024)
- Doctoral Candidate and Research Assistant at the chair of Prof. Peter Jung, University of Basel (2022-2025)
- Junior Associate at Bär & Karrer (2021-2022)
- University of Zurich: MLaw (2021; summa cum laude)
- University of Oxford: Magister Juris (2020; distinction)
- University of Basel: BLaw (2017; summa cum laude)
- Tutor, University of Basel (2016-2019)
- Student trainee at various commercial law firms, Zurich (2017-2018)
- English
- German