General corporate

We regularly advise our corporate and institutional clients on a wide range of corporate and securities law matters, covering all aspects of corporate life of Swiss entities, from their setting-up to their winding up. Our services include:

Corporate governance

Governance and planning of family businesses

Shareholders agreements

Shareholders' meetings and information

Capital increase/reduction procedures, public offerings, share buy-backs

Employees’ participation

Reorganizations and restructurings, including cross-border company migration

Joint ventures

Commercial contracts

Mergers and Acquisitions

We have extensive experience and expertise in dealing with complex domestic and cross-border transactions. We advise our clients on the full range of corporate transactions, including acquisitions and divestments of privately owned companies and strategic assets (clients’ portfolios etc.). Our mergers and acquisitions practice covers a wide range of industries including industrial groups, financial institutions, technology firms, and energy providers. We act for corporate buyers and sellers, private investors as well as private equity funds and their financial advisers. Our services include:

Structuring transactions

Due diligence

Drafting and negotiation of the transaction documentation

Securing regulatory permits and clearances

Organizing of signing and closing

Financings

We advise on domestic and cross-border financing transactions across a wide range of industries. We act for lenders, borrowers and their financial advisers. Our experience in particular extends to the drafting and the negotiation of security agreements on assets located in Switzerland (shares, trade and intercompany receivables, intellectual property rights, bank accounts, work of arts, crude oil). Our services include:

Drafting of facility agreements under Swiss law

Review of facility agreements governed by foreign law from a Swiss law perspective

Drafting of the security documentation

Assistance with the preparation of the closing deliverables

Issuance of legal opinions

Litigation

We represent clients in disputes relating to the above matters, in particular shareholders and director’s liability disputes as well as post M&A disputes.