Bratschi AG

Chairman: Ion Eglin

Managing Partner: Sandra De Vito

Number of partners: 56

Number of lawyers: 120

Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Albanian, Croatian, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romansh, Spanish

Firm Overview:

Born out of the merger of three traditional local firms, Bratschi Ltd. is a leading, fast growing Swiss full service law firm with over 120 professionals. At its offices in Zurich, Berne, St. Gallen, Geneva, Zug, Basel and Lausanne, the firm offers an extraordinarily broad range of legal services at the highest quality in almost all areas of law. A characteristic feature of the firm is the combination of its traditional local roots and presence with a strong international orientation and expertise in cross-border issues. Clients value the size of the firm, which allows it to master the challenges of complex matters as well as offering specialist know-how. Moreover, its ability to nonetheless offer a personal dedication and a tailor-made service thanks to its local offices, high partner dedication and small, tailor-made teams is highly appreciated. Bratschi Ltd. pools the array of its services and know-how in specialised units, its fourteen practice groups and eight industry groups, which are integrated throughout the whole firm.

Industry Groups:

Construction, Real Estate & Hotels

Financial Services

International Practice

Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare

Private Clients

Public Sector

Sports

Telecom, IT & Energy

Main Areas of Practice:

Arbitration: Co-Heads Lukas Wyss (phone +41 258 58 16 00) and Marco Vedovatti (phone +41 58 258 10 00)

Competition & Media: Co-Heads Daniel Glasl and Christian Wind (phone +41 58 258 10 00)

Compliance & Investigations: Co-Heads Pascal Rüedi (phone +41 58 258 16 00) and Christian Wind (phone +41 58 258 10 00)

Constitutional & Administrative Law: Head Isabelle Häner (phone +41 58 258 10 00)

Contracts: Head Barbara Jecklin (phone +41 58 258 10 00)

Corporate & Transactions: Head Thomas Peter (phone +41 58 258 10 00)

Employment Law: Co-Heads Angela Hensch (phone +41 58 258 14 00) and Tobias Herren (phone +41 58 258 16 00)

Family Law: Head Annina Berchtold-Schreiner (phone +41 58 258 14 00)

Inheritance Law: Head Roberto Fornito (phone +41 58 258 14 00)

Intellectual Property, Technology & Data Protection: Head Adrian Bieri (phone +41 58 258 10 00)

Litigation & Debt Collection: Co-Heads Mirco Ceregato (phone +41 58 258 14 00) and Daniel Glasl (phone +41 58 258 10 00)

Notarial Services: Head Roberto Fornito (phone +41 58 258 14 00)

Taxation: Head Michael Barrot (phone +41 58 258 10 00)

White Collar Crime: Head Adrian Wyss

Corporate & Transactions:

Integrated by over 40 fee earners, this practice encompasses the areas of corporate and commercial, M&A, transactions and capital markets. It handles all aspects of transactional work and of capital market transactions, throughout all stages of the life-cycle of companies, both for privately held and listed entities. The practice focuses on the small and mid-cap segment, both domestically and cross-border.

Arbitration & Litigation:

The dispute resolution team, which features some 60 professionals, consists of the practice groups arbitration and litigation and debt collection. It acts before all local, cantonal and national courts across all linguistic areas of Switzerland. The arbitration team also counts on various experienced arbitrators who act on international and national arbitrations.

Financial Services:

Advising financial service providers is one of the firm’s strengths. The specialists who serve this practice area advise international and Swiss banks, insurance companies, independent asset managers and other financial service providers of all sizes who operate nationally and globally, across a broad range of legal and regulatory issues.

Taxation:

The firm’s department provides tax advice on transactional, corporate, capital market and financing matters, as well as on estate planning and private taxation matters. It also represents clients before tax authorities and in court.

Public Sector:

The team, which is highly experienced in all areas of Swiss public and administrative law, regularly advises in the fields of energy, medical and healthcare, media, education, state liability, public labour, constitutional and general administrative law. Clients include communities, municipalities and state agencies, enterprises in the public and private sector as well as individuals.

International Work:

The lawyers of the firm’s international practice – many of whom have working experience abroad, foreign education, held senior positions in international enterprises and/or have a multi-cultural background – are experts in cross-border issues and in managing multi-jurisdictional projects. With trusted contacts in almost every jurisdiction and place on earth, Bratschi can count on a truly global network.

Offices:

Bratschi Ltd.

Lange Gasse 15

4052 Basel

phone: +41 58 258 19 00

e-mail: basel@bratschi.ch

Bratschi Ltd.

Laupenstrasse 45

3008 Berne

phone: +41 58 258 16 00

e-mail: bern@bratschi.ch

Bratschi Ltd.

Rue du Mont-Blanc 3

1201 Geneva

phone: +41 58 258 13 00

e-mail: geneva@bratschi.ch

Bratschi Ltd.

Avenue Mon-Repos 14

1005 Lausanne

phone: +41 58 258 17 00

e-mail: lausanne@bratschi.ch

Bratschi Ltd.

Vadianstrasse 44

9000 St.Gallen

phone: +41 58 258 14 00

e-mail: st-gallen@bratschi.ch

Bratschi Ltd.

Gubelstrasse 11

6300 Zug

phone: +41 58 258 18 00

e-mail: zug@bratschi.ch

Bratschi Ltd.

Bahnhofstrasse 70

8001 Zurich

phone: +41 58 258 10 00

e-mail: zurich@bratschi.ch