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Dr. Stefan Breitenstein has a broad private client, corporate, banking and finance practice. He advises regularly on international and domestic transactions, including, in particular, financial regulatory matters. Stefan Breitenstein is Co-Chairman of the Banking Law practice group of the Zurich Bar Association. Stefan Breitenstein completed his graduate and post-graduate studies in Zurich (lic iur, 1983; Dr iur, 1987), Brügge (Diplôme des Hautes Etudes Européennes, 1984) an...
Johannes Bürgi, partner with Walder Wyss since 2005, advises clients on matters involving real estate, finance, structured finance, restructuring, and capital markets (including debt and equity offerings and initial public offerings). In finance, he focuses on secured and unsecured lending, structured finance transactions including securitisation, alternative risk transfer, RMBS, CMBS, covered bonds, factoring, project finance and asset finance including complex real estate financings an...
Luc Defferrard, partner with Walder Wyss since 2001, has been active in the finance and legal industry for many years. He mainly advises clients in domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, financing, restructuring as well as in real estate and capital market. Luc Defferrard particularly focuses on private equity and venture capital transactions. He is regularly recommended by Chambers, Legal500 and IFLR1000. Chambers Europe describes him as "always available" and "very strong neg...
Hans-Jakob Diem is a corporate Partner at Lenz & Staehelin. He heads the firm's Corporate and M&A practice group and is the co-head of the Capital Markets practice group in Zurich. He has extensive experience in representing clients in a variety of corporate transactions, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions, bank financings and corporate governance matters. Hans-Jakob Diem is regarded as a leading corporate practitioner in Switzerland and is regularl...
Tino Gaberthüel is a corporate partner at Lenz & Staehelin. He has extensive experience in representing clients in a variety of corporate transactions, focussing on mergers & acquisitions, capital markets transactions and corporate governance matters. Tino Gaberthüel is regularly involved in key transactions in the Swiss market, both domestic and cross-border. Besides his corporate practice, Tino Gaberthüel lectures at the LL.M. program of the University of Zurich and a...
Urs P. Gnos heads the Transaction Team. His practice focuses on international and domestic mergers & acquisitions, private equity, venture capital and capital market transactions, commercial and corporate law as well as public tender offers and buy-outs. Urs P. Gnos also advises companies with respect to corporate governance matters, stock exchange regulations, corporate reorganizations and restructurings, incl. relocations. Urs P. Gnos is a member of various board of directors, among oth...
Dr. Florian S. Jörg, MCJ, is a partner in the Zurich office of Bratschi Wiederkehr & Buob, one of the larger independent Swiss law firms. He graduated from the University of St. Gallen Law School and obtained a postgraduate degree from NYU Law. His areas of practice include corporate law, M&A and banking law. Florian S. Jörg is also a lecturer for corporate and contract law at the University of St. Gallen Law School. Florian is a frequent speaker both on a national and an in...
A Partner at Lenz & Staehelin's Zurich office, Beat Kühni is an expert in corporate, M&A, private equity & venture capital, real estate, banking & finance, commercial & contracts and corporate & regulatory investigations. Beat Kühni completed his graduate and post-graduate studies in Bern and in the U.S. (LL.M., University of Chicago Law School, 1998). He was admitted to the Bar in 1995. Beat Kühni joined Lenz & Staehelin in 1996 and has been a Partn...
Alberto Lissi is an attorney at law and a certified tax expert. He has gained extensive experience over the last 20 years as an advisor for national and international taxation at Arthur Andersen and later as a Partner at Ernst & Young. Since 2012 he has been a Partner at Tax Partner. His broad experience covers national and international tax planning and reorganizations as well as all tax aspects in the banking and financial sectors. Alberto Lissi is a frequent speaker and lecturer at sel...
Alex Nikitine is head of the Corporate/M&A team at Walder Wyss. His practice focuses on domestic and international M&A transactions, public tender offers, IPOs and other public (ECM/DCM) offerings, private equity and venture capital transactions, corporate governance and general corporate, stock exchange and capital markets laws. His experience for the last 15 years includes numerous transactions in these areas of expertise, in particular with companies in the Life Sciences, Banking o...
Dr. Matthias Oertle is a partner in the Zurich office and together with Dominique Müller heads the Employment and Pensions practice. Other areas of expertise include corporate law, venture capital and private clients. Matthias Oertle completed his graduate and post-graduate studies in Zurich (lic iur, 1986; Dr iur, 1990). He was admitted to the Zurich Bar in 1988. Matthias Oertle joined Lenz & Staehelin in 1991 and has been a Partner since 1996.
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...
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...
Andrea Sieber specialises in national and cross-border M&A, private equity and capital market transactions as well as national and international company reorganisations. She also advises Swiss and international clients on collective investment schemes, corporate governance questions, listing rules and general corporate law. Her clients include several listed companies, financial institutions as well as other large and medium-sized companies and she has a particular industry focus on regul...
A Senior Counsel at Lenz & Stahelein's Zurich office, Rudolf Tschäni is regarded as a leading expert in the market. Apart from advising on transactions generally, Rudolf concentrates on advising the board and management in takeover and stress situations as well as generally in the area of corporate governance. Furthermore, he has extensive experience as board member and is often nominated as arbitrator in national and international arbitration procedures, in particular in disputes re...
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. ...
Partner Stephan Werlen focuses on M&A and corporate law, joint ventures, MBOs, acquisition finance, venture capital transactions, corporate restructuring and corporate relocation. He has broad experience both in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions (including auction processes) and the financing of such transactions. In addition, he is an expert in W&I insurance transactions (M&A insurance) with a long track record in this area. Stephan Werlen also regularly advises...
Matthias Wolf is a partner in the Corporate and M&A department of Lenz & Staehelin in Zurich. He advises primarily in the fields of M&A, banking and finance, capital markets and on corporate law matters. His experience covers public and private M&A with a focus on cross-border transactions. He regularly advises private and listed companies on corporate governance and securities laws matters. Matthias Wolf completed his graduate and post-graduate studies in Zurich (lic iur, 199...
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