Kellerhals Carrard

Kellerhals Carrard is a full-service law firm with more than 300 legal experts and offices in Basel, Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano, Sion and Zurich as well as representative offices in Shanghai and Tokyo. The firm offers a full range of legal services for national and international clients in all areas of corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on cross border transactions. The firm is known for its entrepreneurial spirit, understanding of business needs and pragmatic approach.

Chairman: Dr Beat Brechbuehl

Managing Partners: Emmanuèle Argand, Nicolas Hoffmann, Dr Daniel Lengauer, Dr. Mario Marti, Dr. Nicolas Mosimann, Ivan Paparelli, Prof. Dr. Edgar Philippin, Frédéric Rochat.

Number of partners: 105, Number of lawyers: >300

More than 20 languages spoken.

Arbitration

The arbitration group experience covers a large number of cases across a wide range of industrial sectors and diverse matters in institutional and ad hoc arbitration, applying various rules (including ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules, LCIA, SIAC, DIS, CAS and WIPO).

Banking, Finance & FinTech

Kellerhals Carrard-s specialists have long-term experience and are constantly active in all areas of banking and the financial and Fintech business and advise a large number of Swiss and foreign financial institutions, insurance companies, and other financial service providers.

Capital Market

The capital market law team also has particular experience in advising companies on their IPOs and capital increases. Its memebrs, who are accredited at the SIX Swiss Exchange and the BX Swiss, among others, regularly assisting listings on the SIX Swiss Exchange and BX Swiss.

Competition/Antitrust

The team advises domestic and foreign clients on antitrust proceedings at the Competition Commission and at civil courts, both under Swiss and European law. We also regularly represent our clients in merger control proceedings before the Swiss and European Competition Commission. O

Construction & Real Estate

Kellerhals Carrard has outstanding expertise in the fields of construction, real estate and industrial plants. This expertise is based on the wide-ranging experience that we have gained in cooperation with private and public clients as well as with service providers.

Corporate/M&A

The Mergers & Acquisitions team provides personal, pragmatic, and efficient advice to national and international companies, as well as entrepreneurs, on all types of transactions within the contextof succession planning. We are always focused on a pragmatic and cost-effective solution for our clients. We work closely with our network of selected foreign law firms to deal with specific aspects of cross-border issues.

Criminal law, internal investigations and compliance

The interdisciplinary integrated practice, consisting of experienced experts in the fields of criminal law, legal assistance, internal investigations, crisis management and compliance, can handle national or international challenges in this field.

DR and Litigation

Kellerhals Carrard is the first port of call whenever the case has a connection with Switzerland, due either to its basis on Swiss jurisdiction, the application of Swiss law, or the fact that evidence or assets are located in Switzerland.

Energy, Infrastructure and environment

Kellerhals Carrard has proven expertise and a wealth of experience in the field of energy law, as well as in-depth knowledge of sector policy conditions and regulatory frameworks relating to the transmission and distribution of electricity, gas, heating, and water supply.

Healthcare and Life Sciences

The Life Sciences, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotechnology department consists of attorneys who devote a large part of their practice to this field, and who have international pharma and healthcare experience and expertise as senior executives, lawyers, physicians, or civil servants in one of the top-tier global pharmaceutical companies, healthcare institutions or government agencies.

R&I

Kellerhals Carrard has a team of insolvency law specialists who advises management bodies with regard to the measures to be taken in the event of impending insolvency, represents financial creditors, debtors and companies that acquire assets from financially stricken companies and act as extraordinary receivers.

Insurance

A large team of specialists and litigation attorneys advises and represents insurance companies, reinsurance companies, insured and liable companies, brokers, interest groups, professional liability persons, responsible bodies and supervisory authorities.

IP

The IP team advises and represents clients in all matters of copyright, trademark, design and patent law as well as unfair competition. Their expertise covers traditional and new media, the entertainment industry, and the art sector.

Private Clients

The Private Clients Team advises Swiss nationals and foreign private individuals, families and entrepreneurs as well as other parties involved (such as executors, banks, family offices, etc.) in all areas of family law, inheritance law and real estate law as well as related areas of law.

Sports Law

Kellerhals Carrard is one of the most specialized sports law firms in the world. Its activities cover all areas of sports law, including litigation and commercial matters. The firm has unrivaled experience in resolving sports disputes and is one of the most active firms before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), particularly in football and doping matters.

Taxes

The team provides advice in all areas of direct and indirect taxation, both nationally and internationally. The clients are multinational companies, financial institutions, SMEs, nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, investors, and private individuals.

Start-up Desk

The desk offers professional, pragmatic and reliable services in all areas and phases in the life of a start-up. The desk specializes in advising start-ups after they have been founded, especially in financing rounds, employee stock ownership plans, exits, and IP rights.

ESG Desk

The ESG desk brings our experts together and combines their broad expertise in this field, for the benefit of our clients.