VISCHER‘s ’pragmatic, intellectually rigorous and strategic’ team advises on a broad range of banking and finance issues including general debt finance, corporate financing transactions, regulatory matters, fintech, and banking litigation. The team is headed by Adrian Dörig who is experienced in advising life sciences enterprises and debt fund lenders on debt financing transactions and other structured finance transactions. Markus Guggenbühl specialises in capital market transactions related to debt, equity, and hybrid financial instruments as well as debt financing and financial services regulations. Jana Essebier has extensive expertise handling derivatives, structured instruments, and other financial instruments. Stefan Grieder advises banks, securities traders, and asset managers on supervisory law matters.
Testimonials
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‘VISCHER is highly recognized in M&A, Private Equity, Debt Financing, Capital Markets (debt, equity and hybrid, including Tier 1 capital for banks) as well as banking and insurance regulation.'
‘Sharp-minded Markus Guggenbühl and Adrian Dörig are best known in the market - extremely responsive, straightforward and solution driven. Both have vast experience in banking and finance matters and are fully committed to top quality of work.’
‘They are technically excellent and familiar with cross-border financing process. The team is very organised and takes a practical approach to matters.’
‘Christian Schneiter is great to work with and is very diligent. Seems to know Swiss law inside and out and consistently provides well-reasoned solutions.’
‘Christian Schneiter is a very friendly and thorough lawyer. It has been easy and enjoyable to work with him and his team as the local Swiss counsel on our transaction.’
‘Vischer’s team is pragmatic, intellectually rigorous and strategic. Their no nonsense approach is value added in court proceedings in Switzerland and highly appreciated by clients and courts alike.’
‘The team is able to adapt to the situation. They act precisely with a strong commercial approach. In doing so, they think for their client and act in their interests.’
Key clients
- E3 Holding AG
- Fangda Carbon New Material Co., Ltd.
- Oberland Capital Management LLC
- QoQa Brew SA
- AFINUM Management AG
- Bank CIC
- Bank J. Safra Sarasin
- Battery Ventures
- Bregal Unternehmerkapital GmbH
- Dermavant Sciences, Inc.
- Elementum Metals Securities plc
- Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited
- Eternyze AG
- Forty51 Advisors AG
- Hardinge Inc.
- IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG
- Invision AG
- Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG (Berenberg Bank)
- Loomis
- Macquarie Bank
- MUFG Bank, Ltd.
- Norgine Ventures
- Operational Riskdata eXchange Association (ORX) (www.orx.org)
- Paprec Holding
- PricewaterhouseCoopers AG
- Privet Fund Management
- RELIEF THERAPEUTICS Holding AG
- Rigeto Unternehmerkapital GmbH
- UBS
Work highlights
- Advised Oberland Capital Management LLC in connection with a significant finance transaction with the Helsinn Group.
- Advised Battery Ventures in connection with a complex acquisition financing transaction.
- Advising Elementum Metals Securities plc on Swiss law issues pertaining to the issuance of and listing of a number of exchange-traded commodities and the custody of the underlying metal they represent.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Adrian Dörig