The insurance team at Lenz & Staehelin often works with the firm’s banking and finance and corporate and M&A practice groups to provide well-rounded advice to major Swiss and foreign insurance and reinsurance companies. It covers a comprehensive range of insurance-related services, including transactions, regulatory, commercial, and dispute resolution matters. Olivier Stahler co-heads the team and often acts for a broad range of Swiss and foreign financial institutions, including banks, insurance companies and fund managers. Fellow co-head Lukas Morscher stands out for his expertise in the insurance aspects of corporate M&As and wider financial services.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘An excellent firm - I have always been impressed by the consistency and quality of their advice.’

  • ‘Lukas Morscher gives clear and reliable advice on Swiss insurance issues.'

Key clients

  • Baloise Insurance Holding
  • Consimo
  • Caterpillar Insurance Company
  • Generali
  • Liberty Mutual
  • Octium Group
  • Resolution Life
  • Resolution Re
  • Schweizerische Mobiliar Versicherungsgesellschaft
  • TransRe
  • Unilever Reinsurance
  • Vaudoise Assurances Holding SA

Work highlights

  • Advising a global reinsurer on the cross-border marketing of insurance-linked funds to various types of investors in Switzerland.
  • Advising the captive insurance carrier of a world-leading construction and mining equipment manufacturer on all legal, regulatory and contract aspects of new custody arrangements for its Swiss entities.
  • Acting as Swiss counsel to an international banking group on a multi-year stop-loss transaction to provide funding to a Swiss reinsurance company.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Olivier Stahler, Lukas Morscher