Mr Sébastien Roy > Pestalozzi > Geneva, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
Pestalozzi Offices
Cours de Rive 13
1204 Geneva
Switzerland
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Mr Sébastien Roy
Work Department
Banking and finance / Capital markets / Mergers and acquisitions.
Position
Advises financial institutions, corporations and individuals on their transactions, contracts and regulatory matters. His practice focuses in particular on financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions and private equity. He also advises corporations on setting up operations in Switzerland and on their corporate and commercial matters.
Career
University of Geneva (lic.iur., 1992). Bar Admission (1994). Joined Pestalozzi as Partner (2005). Head of Financial Services Group in Geneva.
Languages
French, English and German.
Memberships
International Bar Association, Swiss and Geneva Bar Associations, Association Genevoise de Droit des Affaires.
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva
(Leading individuals)Pestalozzi‘s ‘pragmatic and helpful’ team advises lenders and borrowers on Swiss law-governed and cross-border international finance, acquisition finance, corporate finance, mezzanine financings, syndicated loans, and commodities trade financing. The team also has a regulatory practice which assists clients with compliance matters, licenses, and the structuring of new financial services. The practice is headed by Sébastien Roy, whose practice covers financing, M&A transactions and private equity, and Christophe Emonet, who specialises in international banking disputes and investigations. Ludivine Boisard‘s practice covers all types of domestic and cross-border banking transactions while Nicolas Herren handles banking disputes arising from contractual and regulatory issues. Other key team members include Christophe Berclaz, who has expertise in banking disputes with multi-jurisdictional aspects, and Jean-Baptiste Lhôte, who specialises in commercial law and banking transactions.
Switzerland > Commercial, corporate and M&A
The ‘client-oriented’ team at Pestalozzi fields a broad offering that incorporates M&A, private equity, commercial matters and corporate reorganisations, among others. Co-lead Christoph Lang is particularly well versed in corporate law, as well as advising on M&A and joint ventures, while fellow practice lead Sébastien Roy focuses on private M&A and private equity transactions, utilising his trilingual capabilities. Petra Hanselmann’s strengths include pre-transaction restructurings, joint ventures and M&A, with Severin Roelli routinely engaged by clients on public tender offers and stock exchange law and regulations. Pascal Richard is another name to note.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva
- Banking and finance: Geneva Switzerland
- Commercial, corporate and M&A Switzerland
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Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Geneva
- Banking and finance: Zurich
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Fintech
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- Private client
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- Data privacy and data protection
- Regulatory, compliance and investigations
- TMT
- Competition