Tino Gaberthüel

Practice Areas

Tino Gaberthüel is a partner heading the firm's Corporate and M&A practice group, based in Zurich. He has extensive experience representing clients in a variety of corporate transactions, focusing on M&A, capital markets and corporate governance matters, with a special focus on PE buy-outs.

Tino is regularly involved in key transactions in the Swiss market – both domestic and cross-border. He recently represented, among others, Bain Private Equity and Cinven in the acquisition of Lonza Speciality Ingredients; SK Capital and Heubach in the acquisition of Clariant's pigments business; Sika AG in the acquisition of MBCC Group; Saudi National Bank in its CHF 1.5b investment in Credit Suisse; as well as BMG in the acquisition of certain music rights of Tina Turner.

Alongside his corporate practice, Tino lectures at the LL.M. program of the University of Zurich and at the Advanced Master Studies of the Institute of Financial Services Zug IFZ. A regular contributor in legal textbooks and law journals, he is also the hiring partner for our Zurich office.

Career

University of Salamanca, Spain (1995), University of Zurich (lic. iur., 1997), Admission to Zurich Bar (2000), Northwestern University School of Law (LL.M., 2003), Kellogg School of Management (Certificate in Business Administration, 2003), Covington & Burling, New York (2003/04), Joined Lenz & Staehelin (2004), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (2011)

Professional Memberships

Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), Swiss Bar Association (SAV), International Bar Association (IBA), Swiss-Indian Chamber of Commerce (SICC)

Personal

Languages: German, English, Spanish, French