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Jürg Gassmann
Principal, Gassmann Consulting, Ireland
Dr. Jürg Gassmann is an independent practitioner based in Ireland. Since 2002, he has been acting as ‘outside in-house counsel’ for developers and investors where the business volume does not justify a senior lawyer on staff. He specialises in electricity generation (both renewable and traditional), resource valorisation, water/wastewater and similar infrastructure projects as well as advising venture capital investors.
Jurg acts as “outside-in-house counsel” for investors with complex international infrastructure projects and M&A transaction, where the deal volume does not justify the cost of a senior lawyer on staff. This approach allows clients to benefit from affordable forward-looking expert advice from the deal’s early development stages until financing.
He is also advising Envisionation, a consultancy specialising in climate change issues and sustainability projects.
Jurg was introduced to international law during his officer training in the Swiss Army and it formed part of his PhD course. In his business dealings, it forms a core part cross-border pipeline or electrical interconnector projects as well as regional environmental projects.
Before establishing his own practice, he was Of Counsel with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London; in an in-house legal role with Black & Veatch in Hong Kong and Kansas City; with a Swiss venture capital investor in Zurich; and with The Sumitomo Trust & Banking in Tokyo.
Jürg took his licentiatus iuris at the University of Zurich in 1986 as well as his doctorate in law in 1989, following a research fellowship at the University of Tokyo. He is qualified as a Swiss Rechtsanwalt and as an English solicitor (not practicing), and speaks German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, and some Urdu.
