About

Provided by Lenz & Staehelin

We advise clients on the full range of banking and finance matters, including:

  • Asset Management: We deliver highly specialised advice on all aspects of institutional asset management, investment services and products.

  • Capital Markets: Our team delivers comprehensive and prompt advisory and support services for all types of capital markets offerings, including IPOs and rights offerings, bonds, convertible bonds, covered bonds, hybrid bonds and other securities transactions

  • Commercial Banking and Structured Finance: We advise clients on lending and structured finance transactions, ranging from straightforward financing transactions to highly complex structured financings, and including syndicated lending, leveraged and investment grade acquisition finance, structured finance, projects and infrastructure finance, real estate finance, asset-based finance, work-outs and recapitalizations and trade, commodities and export finance

  • Derivatives: Our advisory and documentation work in the field of derivatives covers all major OTC derivatives as well as exchange traded and centrally cleared derivatives

  • Financial Services and Regulatory: We represent a wide range of Swiss and international banks, securities dealers, insurance companies, asset managers, pension funds, other financial service providers, self-regulatory authorities and financial industry associations

  • Private Banking: We advise Swiss and non-Swiss banks and other financial intermediaries on all private banking related matters.

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Switzerland

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Lenz & Staehelin possesses wide-ranging expertise in financing transactions, assisting both lenders and borrowers. The practice regularly advises on acquisition finance mandates, spin-off and IPO financing, and multicurrency corporate credit facilities as well as project financing. The law firm also handles non-contentious regulatory mandates relating to banking mergers and takeovers. The team plays a key role in the development of Swiss legislation with a focus on derivatives trading. The lawyers also advise domestic clients on criminal and regulatory investigations, such as enforcement proceedings.

Work Highlights

  • Lenz & Staehelin assisted SoftwareOne with the financing of its business combination with Crayon.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Marcel Tranchet
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Marcel Tranchet
Head of Banking & Finance
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Band 1
Marcel Tranchet advises clients on acquisition finance, sustainability financing arrangements, corporate financing and financial restructurings. He has experience acting for both lenders and borrowers.

Marcel Tranchet is a leader in the Swiss market with excellent negotiation skills.

Marcel delivers great advice based on broad experience in the finance transaction sphere combined with a very focused, pragmatic and swift approach. He also has very good problem-solving skills.

Marcel Tranchet provides us with excellent service and is proactive and always available.

He possesses strong problem-solving and negotiation skills, as well as deep market and industry understanding.

Marcel Tranchet is an extremely skilled, knowledgeable, thorough and diligent finance lawyer, as well as a very tough but calm and constructive negotiator.

Shelby R du Pasquier
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Shelby R du Pasquier
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Band 1

Shelby du Pasquier is renowned for advising Swiss financial institutions on a wide range of issues, including FINMA enforcement proceedings and US Department of Justice investigations.

Shelby du Pasquier is a very strong figure in the market.

Philipp Fischer
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Philipp Fischer
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Band 2

Geneva-based Philipp Fischer regularly advises Swiss and non-Swiss financial institutions on Swiss banking, financial and data protection regulations. This includes assisting with FINMA authorisations and the launch of new financial products. He also assists lenders with financing transactions.

Philipp Fischer is a very talented lawyer in various subjects.

Philipp Fischer has a unique vision of the law and is always one step ahead. He is an exceptional lawyer.

Ranked Lawyers at
Lenz & Staehelin

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Switzerland

Banking & Finance

Marcel Tranchet
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Marcel Tranchet
Head of Banking & Finance
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Band 1
Banking & Finance: Regulatory

Shelby R du Pasquier
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Shelby R du Pasquier
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Band 1
Philipp Fischer
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Philipp Fischer
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Band 2

Members

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David Ledermann

Fedor Poskriakov

François Rayroux

Laurence Vogt Scholler

Marcel Tranchet

Marcel Tranchet

Head of Department

Martin Burkhardt

Olivier Stahler

Shelby R du Pasquier

Shelby R du Pasquier

Head of Department

Stefan Breitenstein

Valérie Menoud

Industries

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Banks

Chemicals

Construction & Materials

Consumer Product Manufacturing

Energy

Financial Services

Government

Health Care

Industrial Engineering

Insurance

Media

Mining & Metals

Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences

Real Estate Finance

Retail

Software & Computer Services

Technology, Hardware & Electronics

Telecommunications

Transportation

Utilities