Stefan Ibing

Head of Legal Region International Commercial - Apellis Switzerland GmbH

Dr. Stefan Ibing is admitted to the Bar at Freiburg, Germany. He joined Novartis in 2006 as Legal Counsel and in 2009 became Head of Legal & Compliance for Novartis Consumer Health in Germany. In 2012, Stefan joined the Novartis headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, successively building up a specialized Legal team for the export-entity of Novartis and becoming its Head of Legal. From 2019 to 2022, Stefan worked as Head of Legal Central and Eastern Europe for Novartis in Basel. End of 2022, he joined the US biotech company Apellis Pharmaceuticals as their Head of Legal Region International Commercial in Zug, Switzerland. Having seen numerous commercial disputes over the years, Stefan has developed a personal interest in commercial mediation. He is an accredited mediator at CEDR, London, and at the Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation, where he also leads the Life Science Practice Group. He wrote his doctoral thesis in the area of EU law at the university of Münster, Germany