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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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

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  • Lenz & Staehelin advised On Group on its inaugural syndicated bank debt financing, valued at CHF700 million.

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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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 an extremely strong lawyer, a very good colleague and a very kind person.

You can ask him about any clause in a contract and he will come up with ideas. He is very relaxed and always has an answer.

Shelby R du Pasquier
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Shelby R du Pasquier
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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.

When matters get complex and international, he is the lawyer to go to. He is someone you want with you. He is very strategic and reassuring.

I find Shelby du Pasquier to be very helpful in matters with the regulator.

Shelby du Pasquier is probably one of the best-known bank advisers in Geneva.

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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Banking & Finance: Regulatory

Shelby R du Pasquier
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Shelby R du Pasquier
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Members

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Alexander Greter

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

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