{"id":4439,"date":"2025-09-23T16:22:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dufouradvokatur.194.150.248.68.dev-url.ch\/team\/monika-naef\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:10:38","slug":"monika-naef","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dufour-advokatur.ch\/en\/team\/monika-naef\/","title":{"rendered":"Monika Naef"},"content":{"rendered":"

Partner<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

Monika Naef<\/h1><\/div>
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Portrait<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Board of directors assistanceMonika Naef ist Anw\u00e4ltin und Partnerin bei DUFOUR Advokatur AG in Basel. She enjoys advising companies and entrepreneurs on all matters, always putting people first. She also holds positions as a senior executive in various organizations, including Industrielle Werke Basel (IWB). In doing so, she skillfully applies her many years of experience in negotiation. Thanks to her work chairing the school board of a public secondary school, she is very familiar with school and administrative law. She was member of the Education Commission of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft. As former head of the legal and trademark department of a multinational corporation, she brings an international perspective and expertise in intellectual property law to our firm. Her youth spent on three continents has had a significant influence on her and given her an understanding of different cultures and languages. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Experience<\/h3><\/div>
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    Partner (since 2005)<\/div><\/li>
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    Former Member of the Education Council of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft<\/div><\/li>
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    Former Former Chair of the school board of a secondary school<\/div><\/li>
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    Head of Legal Affairs of an international chemical company (2000\u20132005)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Senior legal advisor for human resources and pension fund at an international pharmaceutical and chemical company (1997\u20132000)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Senior legal advisor for human resources and pension fund at an international pharmaceutical and chemical company (1997\u20132000)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Legal counsel pharmaceuticals division (1991\u20131995)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Legal counsel industrial divisions (1989\u20131991)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    Bar exam (1990)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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    14 years of living abroad on three continents (USA, Europe and Japan)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>

    Commitment<\/h3><\/div>
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      IWB (energy provider) member of the board of directors Mitglied des Verwaltungsrats der IWB<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Member of Zonta Oberrhein<\/div><\/li>
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      Member of INSEAD Alumni (Basel Chapter)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Member of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Member of Swiss Healthcare Licensing Group (Swiss HLG)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Member of the Board of Directors of the BZB Cooperative (private school)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

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      Member of various other boards<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>

      Practice areas<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Public and private employment law<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Contract and company law<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Intellectual Property (IP) Rights and licenses<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Negotiation (management and tactics)<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

      Life Sciences and Pharma<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4276,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4439","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMonika Naef - Dufour Advokatur<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Monika Naef is a partner at DUFOUR Advokatur in Basel, advising companies, entrepreneurs and private clients.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dufour-advokatur.ch\/en\/team\/monika-naef\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monika Naef - 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