Pestalozzi

Chair: Christoph Lang

Managing Partner: Christophe Emonet, Petra Hanselmann, Severin Roelli

Number of partners: 33

Number of fee earners: >100

Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Croatian, Hebrew, Persian, Japanese

Firm Overview

Pestalozzi is a multicultural Swiss business law firm focusing on high-end work for domestic and international clients since 1911. Pestalozzi lawyers are strong and empathic personalities, known for their truly independent approach to advising and representing their clients. The firm guides and supports its clients in their strategic business decisions, anticipates their future challenges and helps them solve their critical issues. Being fully integrated, Pestalozzi encounters no internal limits in shaping the most competent and efficient teams for the clients’ needs. With over 100 professionals in Zurich and Geneva, the firm is at home in Switzerland’s two main commercial hubs – and has developed a wealth of experience in its key industries of Banking, Life Sciences, Commodity Trading and Insurance. While being locally embedded, Pestalozzi has also developed sought-after expertise in dealing with multi-jurisdictional transactions and disputes.

Main Areas of Practice

Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions(www.pestalozzilaw.com/corporate-m-and-a)

Pestalozzi has provided commercial and corporate law solutions to domestic and foreign companies for over a century. It advises a diverse range of international and domestic companies on all aspects of commercial and corporate law (e.g. corporate governance, corporate control, director and officer liability, shareholder relations, group internal reorganisations, restructurings, executive compensation, and corporate compliance). The group represents buyers, sellers, and their respective financial advisors in all fields of cross-border and domestic M&A transactions, in addition to other corporate control transactions. Corporate / M&A at Pestalozzi also includes:

• Capital Markets
• Competition & Trade
• Employment & Pensions
• Energy
• Environment, Social, Government (ESG)
• Insurance
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Real Estate & Environment

Financial Services(www.pestalozzilaw.com/financial-services)

Pestalozzi provides advice and assistance on all legal issues in relation to financial services and in particular the banking industry and capital markets. Among others, the banking & finance practice is recognised for its comprehensive support in bank regulatory matters. The group advises Swiss and international clients on complex domestic and cross-border regulatory issues (e.g. licensing, compliance, and supervision). It represents and advises clients in complex debt, equity and equity-linked offerings, syndicated loans, structured and hybrid debt financings, securitisations and other alternative risk transfer transactions. Financial Services at Pestalozzi also includes:

• Banking
• Blockchain & Crypto Assets
• Capital Markets
• Environment, Social, Government (ESG)
• Fintech
• Insurance

Intellectual Property & TMT(www.pestalozzilaw.com/ip-tmt)

Pestalozzi provides solutions for all aspects of IP, unfair competition and data protection law, as well as telecommunications, media, and technology law. The group has extensive experience and know-how in advising and representing Swiss and foreign clients in patent trademark, copyright and related matters, as well as licensing, R&D and outsourcing legal and regulatory issues before regulatory authorities, national penal and civil courts, and arbitral tribunals. IP & TMT at Pestalozzi includes also Life Sciences.

Litigation & Arbitration(www.pestalozzilaw.com/litigation-and-arbitration)

Pestalozzi has a long-standing reputation for excellence in advising and representing clients in complex national and international commercial disputes before state courts and arbitral tribunals. Members have extensive practical dispute resolution experience and have gained additional experience in international commercial litigation and arbitration during postgraduate studies in common law countries. In addition to acting in commercial disputes, the practice group is also well known for its expertise in insolvency matters, asset tracing, international judicial assistance in civil and criminal matters as well as matters involving white-collar crimes. Litigation & Arbitration at Pestalozzi also includes:

• Compliance
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• White Collar Crime

Tax(www.pestalozzilaw.com/tax)

Pestalozzi advises clients in Switzerland and abroad on the complete range of corporate and individual taxation, withholding and stamp taxes as well as VAT. The tax practice group offers in-depth knowledge and expertise in the fields of international tax advice/planning, tax compliance and tax litigation services. The firm’s tax experts are able to render all tax services as integrated services across any combination of legal areas.

Practice Areas and Offices

Practice Areas 

• Blockchain & Crypto Assets
• Capital Markets
• Competition & Trade
• Compliance
• Corporate/M&A
• Employment & Pensions
• Energy
• Environment, Social, Government (ESG)
• Financial Services
• Insurance
• IP & TMT
• Life Sciences
• Litigation & Arbitration
• Private Clients
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Real Estate & Environment
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Tax
• White Collar Crime

Offices 

• Feldeggstrasse 4, 8008 Zürich | T +41 44 217 91 11 | [email protected] | pestalozzilaw.com
• Cours de Rive 13, CH-1204 Genève | T +41 22 999 96 00 | [email protected] | pestalozzilaw.com