Lenz & Staehelin enjoys a leading position in domestic and cross-border private and public M&A transactions, and has been party to many of Switzerland’s most important corporate deals. Around 70 partners and associates form the country’s strongest Corporate and M&A practice group.

In response to the complex requirements of domestic and international mergers and acquisitions and the many areas of law involved, this practice group brings together the knowledge, skills and experience of different practice areas to form focused teams for specific transactions.

In addition to advising on corporate law in general, the group also has ample experience in structuring M&A transactions and working with private equity investments. We also rank among the key players in the highly sophisticated field of public tender offers, which reflects the growing importance of Switzerland as an open market for public companies.

Our work includes:

• General corporate
• Company law
• Compliance
• Corporate governance
• M&A
• Mergers
• Private acquisitions
• Private equity investments
• Public tender offers
• Joint ventures
• Stock exchange disclosures
  (disclosure duties, ad hoc publicity, insider information, management transactions, shareholdings)
• Corporate and M&A related litigation and arbitration, and tax advice