Practice Areas

• Project development
• Construction
• Joint Ventures
• Real Estate
• Corporate and M&A
• Commercial and Contracts

Expertise

Julie Miner is a partner based at our Zurich office, where she heads up the Real Estate practice group. She advises both private and institutional clients on real estate law, civil matters (purchases, sales, structuring and financing) and administrative law matters (planning, construction licenses, restrictions on acquisitions, public procurements).

Julie is also vice-chair and a member of various committees of real estate actors / organisations, and has been a judge with the Zurich lease Conciliation Commission and Lease Court for many years. Julie also sits at the investment committee of a Swiss German based pension fund, and on other boards of directors of real estate companies.

Association Memberships

• Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA)
• Swiss Advocates’ Chamber of Certified Specialists SBA Construction and Real Estate Law (board member)
• CVI - Chambre Vaudoise Immobilière (board member), SVIT Romandie (vice-chairman)

Academic Qualifications

• 2020: Swiss Board School Corporate Governance best practices
• 2013: Partner at Lenz & Staehelin
• 2010: Certified Specialist SBA Construction and Real Estate Law
• 2006: University of Chicago Law School (LL.M.)
• 2000: University of Fribourg (lic. iur.)