Alex Nikitine leads the Walder Wyss Ltd. team with his considerable strengths in managing venture capital transactions and IPOs. The team is actively engaged to handle private and public M&A, public tender offers and a host of other transactions. Other names to note in the practice include Hans-Jakob Diem, who is especially knowledgeable with regard to M&A and securities law, and Urs Gnos, whose varied set of skills encompasses venture capital and capital market transactions alongside buy-outs and general corporate advice. Florian Gunz Niedermann’s arsenal of abilities consists of a range of domestic and international M&A, the ‘brilliant’ Luc Defferrard is well-positioned to advise on private equity and venture capital issues, and Ramona Wyss is fully immersed in an array of regulated industries.
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  • ‘Luc Defferrard is a brilliant, pragmatic lawyer giving the most solid high-quality advice.’

Clients clés

  • UBS AG
  • Credit Suisse
  • KLAR Partners
  • Boehringer Ingelheim
  • DSM
  • Sunrise
  • Liberty Media Corporation
  • Hesai Technology
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Straumann Holding AG

Points forts

  • Advised Credit Suisse as lead counsel on the merger between UBS and Credit Suisse, with a combined market capitalisation of approximately $65bn.
  • Acted as lead counsel to SIX-listed Aluflexpack AG in its sale to Constantia Flexibles, a global packaging manufacturer, under which Constantia is acquiring approximately 57% of the shares of AFP and, in parallel, launched an all-cash public tender offer for all publicly held registered shares of AFP.
  • Acted as lead counsel to Boehringer Ingelheim in its acquisition of privately held T3 Pharmaceuticals AG, a clinical stage Swiss biotech company, for an amount of up to $515m.

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Responsable de la pratique

Alex Nikitine

Autres avocats clés

Hans-Jakob Diem; Urs Gnos; Florian Gunz Niedermann; Luc Defferrard; Ramona Wyss