Janelise
Favre
Partner
Geneva
Member of the Geneva Bar
Expertise
- Corporate law
- Data protection
- Medical Law
- New Technologies
Education
- Universities of Fribourg and Paris-II (Assas)
- CAS in Data Protection, University of St. Gallen

Languages
- French
- English

Professional affiliations
- Swiss Bar Association
- Geneva Bar Association


Janelise is a lawyer specialized in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), as well as in complex regulatory fields such as data protection, artificial intelligence, medical law, and new technologies.

With recognized experience, she supports her clients in integrating new technologies while ensuring they maximize their potential in an ethical and legally compliant manner. Her expertise in regulations allows her to offer strategic advice on innovation and compliance issues, ensuring her clients’ safe and responsible use of emerging technologies.
Details of recent activities
Recently, she:
- Managed a data breach for a client in the cryptocurrency sector
- Assisted a client in acquiring a company specialized in sports and entertainment
- Ensured compliance with Swiss and EU data protection laws (LPD and GDPR) for a Swiss company dealing with extensive sensitive personal data of subjects based in Switzerland and within the EU
- Supported a client in the healthcare sector in obtaining practice rights for its employee doctors
- Assisted a European pharmaceutical company in establishing in Switzerland and obtaining various market authorizations from Swissmedic
- Negotiated a license agreement for a startup with an international company in the renewable energy sector
- Negotiated a funding contract for an association for a study conducted by Geneva public authorities
- Negotiated a clinical trial contract for a Swiss public hospital with a British pharmaceutical company
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Conferences
- Best practices in clinical trials: "Contracts and liability for damages in clinical trials: Who? How? Why?" Course given at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) in January 2023 and January 2022
Publications
- Want a better h-index? – All you need to know about copyright and open access, (Janelise Favre, Tania Germond, Philippe Clavert, Philippe Collin, Aude Michelet, and Alexandre Lädermann) available on ScienceDirect (October 2020)
- The necessity of a "virtual" personality for AI, interview with Janelise Favre and Lezgin Polater (AGEFI on March 11, 2020)
- The basics of copyright for teachers and researchers, video capsule by the University of Lausanne (2019)
- Increase the visibility and impact of a scientific publication by mastering copyright (with T Germond - Swiss National Science Foundation, August 2018)
- Janelise Favre & Sandro Vecchio – Le Temps (Switzerland), May 21, 2015 – Inheritance taxation: Kafka couldn't have done better
- Janelise Favre, Entreprise Romande, May 2015 – Family businesses: how to organize simple and effective governance
- Janelise Favre, Journal des arts et métiers, June 2015 – Business transmission: for those who have delayed!