CMS

Corporate / M&A, Competition & EU

Managing Partner

Stefan Brunnschweiler is the global co-head of the CMS Corporate/M&A Practice Area Group.

He specialises in international and domestic M&A transactions, corporate restructurings, corporate law and general contract matters (e.g. joint ventures, partnerships and shareholders' agreements). He is experienced in a broad range of national and international transactions, both sell- and buy-side (including corporate auction processes) as well as the assistance of clients in their ongoing corporate and commercial activities.

Stefan Brunnschweiler has engaged in competition law, including merger control filings for more than 10 years.

Stefan Brunnschweiler graduated from the University of Zurich in 1997. In 2000, after serving as a law clerk at the district court of Winterthur, he was admitted to the bar. He joined CMS von Erlach Poncet in 2001. Stefan Brunnschweiler completed a masters program (Master of Laws, LL.M.) at the University of San Diego School of Law and worked as a foreign associate with Higgs, Fletcher & Mack in San Diego (USA) before returning to CMS von Erlach Poncet by the end of 2003. He is a partner with CMS von Erlach Poncet since 2008 and became global Head of CMS Corporate/M&A in 2015.

German, English, French, Italian.

Zurich Bar Association Swiss Bar Association Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht Swiss Private Equity & Corporate Finance Association

2003 – University of San Diego (USA), Master of Law (LL.M.) 2000 – Bar Admission (Zurich, Switzerland) 1997 – University of Zurich and Geneva (Switzerland)

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