Homburger
Homburger’s interdisciplinary team advises national and international blue-chip clients on complex employment matters such as litigation, investigations, bonus schemes, executive renumeration, and mass dismissals. The team is co-headed by Balz Gross, who is the ‘go-to’ contact when it comes to management compensation, employee participation plans, and abuse of information, and Andreas Müller, who advises companies, boards of directors and compensation/nomination committees on top executive transitions and related employment law matters. Gregor Bühler focuses on the intersection of employment to IP and IT law, whilst Gabrielle Nater-Bass focuses on litigation cases and Claude Lambert designs participation plans and handles corporate governance matters on “say on pay”. Jeremy Reichlin supports clients with mass dismissals and the employment-related aspect of restructurings.
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Testimonials
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‘Experts in their field, but also very responsive and commercial.’
‘Balz Gross is our go-to person. A fantastic lawyer who is great with clients.’
‘The team gives comprehensive background information, but also provides practical guidance and recommendations.’
‘Homburger provides outstanding legal services. Excellent expertise, combined with pragmatism, experience and insights.’
‘Strong-minded and strategic, Claude Lambert is extremely knowledgeable, responsive, and practical.'
'The team is highly skilled, very accessible with the exceptional way of extracting practical, usable advice from complicated legal rules. A great team with exceptional people professionally and personally.’
‘They are very competent and deliver great work, always on time.’
‘Balz Gross is not only highly knowledgeable and a quick thinker, but also always available. He is down to earth and working with him is a pleasure.’
Key clients
- ABB
- Dufry
- AMF Medical
- GAM
- Migros
- U.S. Cotton
- OC Oerlikon
- Implenia
- PHOENIX Pharma
- Solenis
- Scaled Agile
- Affective Advisory
- Baker Hughes
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Clariant
- Kering
- SAP
- VectivBio
- wefox
- Ahlström Capital
- ASML Netherlands
Work highlights
- Advised Dufry on employment matters in its EUR 5.5bn strategic combination with Autogrill.
- Advised VectivBio on employment matters in its USD 1bn public cash tender offer from Ironwood Pharmaceuticals.
- Advised AMF Medical and its shareholders on employment matters in the sale of AMF Medical to Tandem Diabetes Care.
Lawyers
Rising stars
Leading individuals
Partner. Head of the IP / IT team and Deputy Head of the Litigation / Arbitration team. Main areas of work are IP and IT-related litigation and arbitration. Other areas include sports, distribution, internet, privacy and sports law as well as technology-related transactional work. Experienced litigator before civil and administrative courts.
Next Generation Partners
Partner. Practice focuses on public and private mergers & acquisitions, private equity and capital markets. Other areas of work comprise matters of corporate governance and executive compensation, as well as corporate law and securities regulation.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Balz Gross, Andreas Müller