Jacques Iffland Partner, Head of Capital Markets
Dr. iur., Attorney at Law

Jacques Iffland is a partner specialising in corporate law, securities regulation and M&A, with a focus on transactions involving public companies. He is authorised to represent issuers before the SIX Swiss Exchange and is chair of the Capital Markets and Technology Association. 

In recent years, Jacques has advised, among others, the following clients:

– Valaris, an offshore drilling services provider (NYSE: VAL), in connection with its combination with Transocean (NYSE: RIG), a Swiss provider of offshore contract drilling services, pursuant to which Transocean will acquire Valaris in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately USD 5.8 billion.

– APG SGA AG, the leading Swiss out-of-home advertising company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, in connection with transactions pursuant to which Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) is to acquire a 45% stake in the company.

– Banque Pictet & Cie SA in connection with a pilot for the allocation of fractional quantities of debt instruments through the Swiss Digital Exchange, the Swiss central depository for digital securities.

– The investor group comprised of NewGAMe, an investment vehicle controlled by Rock Investment, a subsidiary of NJJ Holding, the personal holding company of Mr. Xavier Niel, and Bruellan, an independent provider of global wealth management solutions, in the successful takeover of GAM Holding, the SIX-listed global asset management firm.

– JBF Finance SA in its CHF 600 million public tender offer for all publicly held shares of SIX-listed Bobst Group SA, the parent company of Bobst, one of the world's leading suppliers of substrate processing, printing and converting equipment.

– Edizione, one of Europe's leading industrial holding companies and wholly owned by the Benetton family, on the integration between Autogrill and Dufry to create a global company in food & beverage and retail services for travellers.

– SCCF Structured Commodity & Corporate Finance, a Swiss-based trade finance company, in the first issuance of digitalised (tokenised) short-term notes used to refinance commodity trading activities.

– ObsEva, a listed biopharmaceutical company developing and commercialising novel therapies for women’s health, in the company's equity and debt financing activities and in its debt restructuring operations.

– Swissquote, the online bank, on the creation of 'Yuh', a digital neobanking application developed as part of a joint venture with PostFinance, and the creation of the bank's crypto-exchange SQX.

– Richemont on the issuance of tradable shareholder warrants, listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and distributed to the shareholders of the company as part of a loyalty scheme intended to allow shareholders to benefit from a potential upside of the price of Richemont's 'A' shares, once the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic had been overcome.

– The Frère and Desmarais families in the CHF 3.3 billion public exchange offer and subsequent freeze-out merger of the Swiss industrial holding company Pargesa.