Alex Nikitine

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Alex Nikitine is head of the Corporate/M&A team at Walder Wyss. His practice focuses on domestic and international M&A transactions, public tender offers, IPOs and other public (ECM/DCM) offerings, private equity and venture capital transactions, corporate govern-ance and general corporate, stock exchange and capital markets laws. His experience for the last 15 years includes numerous transactions in these areas of expertise, in particular with companies in the Life Sciences, Banking or E-Commerce industry. He represents cli-ents in proceedings before the SIX Swiss Exchange, the Swiss Takeover Board (UEK) and the Swiss financial market supervisory authority FINMA. He is a member of the board of examiners for the Swiss certified tax expert exams and a SIX Swiss Exchange recognised representative under art. 43 Listing Rules.

Career

Qualified in 2003 (all Swiss courts) and in 2008 (New York). Joined Walder Wyss in 2012. Foreign associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, in 2009. Partner at Walder Wyss since 2015.

Professional Memberships

Zurich, Swiss and International Bar Association, New York State Bar Association.

Publications

All publications are available on www.walderwyss.com/alex.nikitine.

Personal

Swiss and French citizen, born 1975. Languages: English, German.