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Kinga M. Weiss is a partner and co-chair of the Private Clients team of Walder Wyss. She primarily devotes her time to domestic and foreign private clients, banks and family offices. Her areas of expertise are centered around both private clients and entrepreneurs in matters of inheritance law, including marital property law, relating to estate planning, business succession and execution of wills. Cross-border cases account for the bulk of her field of action. Besides, she also supports clien...

Daniel Staffelbach is a partner in the Corporate & Commercial Team of Walder Wyss. He counsels Swiss and international clients in all sectors of health care & life sciences and in the insurance industry. His main areas of practice include company and contract law, public law and employment law. He advises his clients and also represents them in litigation. Born in 1966, Daniel Staffelbach studied law at the University of Berne (attorney 1993). He worked at the Administrative Law Panel...

Hans Rudolf Trüeb is a partner of Walder Wyss. He is the co-head of the Regulated Markets, Competition, Technology & IP team, together with David Vasella. He advises Swiss and international clients as well as public entities in corporate and technology-related transactions and with regard to compliance and governance issues. Inter alia, he handles technology transfer, licensing, distribution, joint venture and outsourcing projects as well as corporate transactions. He is often retain...

Partner Certified Specialist SBA Construction and Real Estate Law Sibylle Schnyder specialises in real estate law and mainly deals with real estate acquisitions and divestments, portfolio transactions, construction and development projects, landlord and tenant law, real estate financing, sale & rent back transactions and real estate related litigation. Among the clients of Sibylle Schnyder are Swiss and foreign institutional real estate investors, companies with corporate real estate matt...

Partner Marjolaine Jakob is the head of our insolvency and restructuring team of CMS Zurich. Her practice focuses on national and international insolvency law and related litigation. She advises clients in connection with insolvency proceedings and represents their interests in related proceedings before the competent courts and authorities. Marjolaine Jakob has broad experience in advising companies in restructuring proceedings. Further, she is a proven specialist in international insolvency...

Markus Pfenninger is a partner in the Transactions Team. His fields of expertise include capital market transactions, mergers & acquisitions, finance, restructurings, collective investment schemes as well as banking and insurance regulatory matters. He is a member of the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Task Force on the Financial Crisis and a past chair of the IBA’s Subcommittee on Legal Opinions as well as a past co-chair of the IBA’s Banking Law Committee. Born i...

Beat Spörri is assisting domestic and international companies, including several listed groups of companies, as well as private clients. He is mainly focussing on company law (incl. M&A), capital and financial markets and contracts. In addition, he manages areas such as commercial and competition law, foreign nationals (incl. immigration and naturalization), real estate and employment. He is increasingly involved in the management of complex cases, taking advantage of his military ed...

Mark Reutter's practice focuses both on a comprehensive advising of clients who are active in the information and technology field and on the advising of other corporate and private clients in relation to technology, arts and entertainment, intellectual property as well as restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy matters. Mark Reutter counsels Swiss and international clients and deals with the structuring, negotiation and implementation of projects and other commercial and contractual matters...

Markus Vischer is a partner at Walder Wyss since 1995. His main areas of practice are M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions, business reorganizations and corporate and commercial incl. employment and real estate law. He is a recognized leader in M&A due to his involvement in major transactions, in particular in the media-, real estate-, IT and health care area, and due to his many publications. Born in 1960, Markus Vischer was educated at the University of Zurich (lic. ...

Urs Schenker is very experienced in the areas of restructuring, financing, capital markets, M&As and company law. He has been involved in numerous national and international M&A transactions and public takeovers as well as financing, restructuring and other corporate finance transactions. He has published a number of books and specialist articles in his fields of expertise and is a regular lecturer at conferences in Switzerland and abroad. Urs Schenker completed his law studies in Zur...