Providing a ‘polished’ full-service offering, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (Schweiz) GmbH routinely represents Swiss and international clients in a multitude of fields, including financial services, telecoms and media, and pharma and life sciences. Managing partner and financial expert Thomas Werlen and insolvency expert Simon Vorburger jointly lead the practice. Pierre-Yves Marro and Jonas Hertner contribute their multijurisdictional expertise to the practice.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘The team provides a very polished and expert legal service.'
'They have proven to be very responsive and able to adapt in a difficult and changing litigation landscape and circumstances.’
‘Thomas Werlen has masterfully led on a very challenging case.'
''Simon Vorburger and Remo Decurtins are standout lawyers, with demonstrable credibility and expertise.’
Key clients
- Lion Point
- Mubadala Investment Company
- EFG International
- Salt SA
- Viasat
- Bucherer
- Schenker-Winkler Holding
- Tennor Holding
- Ferrexpo AG
- Renault
- ABB
- Accenture
- ARYZTA AG
- Asia League
- Baloise
- Beltracchi
- Berenberg Bank
- Burkard Urs
- Comosa
- FC Basel
- Garmin
- Gerald Metals
- Highlight Communications
- Highlight Event and Entertainment
- Lonza Ltd.
- M.M. Warburg
- McCormick
- Merion Investment Management
- Monaco Increase Management
- MSI DK
- Nidwaldner Kantonalbank
- NMC Healthcare
- Quintet Private Bank
- Quirin Privatbank
- Rantum Capital / Cedarlake
- Rashidian Reza
- Roivant Sciences
- Romanello Financial Corp.
- SIG Combibloc Group
- Sphaira Innovation AG
- STA Travel Holding AG
- Stadler Rail Group
- Swarovski
- Swatch
- TEAM Marketing
- Vexavit AG
- Windrose SPS Shipping and Trading
- World Boxing Super Series
Work highlights
- Representing the largest group of bondholders (holding an aggregate nominal amount of AT1 bonds of Credit Suisse of over USD 6bn) to challenge the write-down of Credit Suisse AT1 bonds.
- Representing Salt Mobile SA against Sunrise Communications AG and Liberty Global Plc in the wake of a take-over in the Swiss telecom sector and a violation of an agreement between Salt and Sunrise.
- Representing Lion Point Capital and its Swiss-based special purpose vehicle Piodina SA in a dispute against Ernst & Young in connection with a claim arising out of the insolvency of Zeromax GmbH.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Thomas Werlen, Simon Vorburger