Walder Wyss Ltd.‘s expanding team advises all types of real estate investors and high-profile international corporations in complex transactions. The Basel, Berne, and Lugano offices also provide notarial services to their clients. The team is headed by Francis Nordmann, who handles transactional issues as well as leases, and litigation and arbitration; Johannes A. Bürgi, who regularly advises foreign wealth management funds on real estate matters; and Christian Eichenberger, who has a focus on real estate development.
Testimonials
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‘Leading legal practice in the Swiss real estate industry. Knowledgeable and responsive partners.’
‘Francis Nordmann, our lead real estate partner. Amazingly responsive and access to a wide network of real estate stakeholders.’
‘Very efficient and knowledgeable team that covers all relevant aspects and with an excellent coverage of all markets in Switzerland.’
‘Highly dedicated partners and associates with an excellent knowledge and good understanding of investors needs. Specific mention of Francis Nordmann.’
‘The team at Walder Wyss has a very broad expertise relevant to our industry. Our issues range from rental law to construction and zoning law to tax or data protection issues.’
‘We mostly deal with Albane Selimi (MLaw, Attorney at Law & senior associate). She is an excellent lawyer with a highly developed sense of justice and buckets of intrinsic motivation. Her expertise covers a wide range of legal issues, she works very diligently and holds herself (and others) to very high standards.’
‘Wide range of themes. Responsive. Swisswide.’
Key clients
- Artisa Group
- Raiffeisen Futura Immo Fonds
- Immofonds
- Gold Tree
- Swiss Finance & Property
- Akara Funds
- Immozins
- Helvetica
- Rhystadt Ltd (consortium of Swiss Pensions Funds)
- Zuriba
- F. Aeschbach
- Brickvalue 2
- Raststätte Knonaueramt
- Biella Schweiz Ltd
- VERIT Investment Management Ltd
- LHI Immobilien Schweiz Ltd
- Pfizer Ltd
- PURE Funds Ltd
Work highlights
- Advised IPI Partners, LLC, a global investment firm that specializes in investing in critical digital infrastructure assets, on the acquisition of Safe Host, a Switzerland-based data center owner and operator.
- Advising NBIM Sàrl on the sale of the Uetlihof Campus, one of the largest office buildings in Switzerland for a purchase price of roughly CHF 1 billion.
- Advised PKRE on the sale of a large office campus within Zurich to Swiss Prime Site Investment Foundation.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Francis Nordmann, Johannes Bürgi, Christian Eichenberger