SWITZERLAND Law and Practice Contributed by: Francis Nordmann, Johannes Bürgi, Christian Eichenberger, André Kuhn and Sabrina Kunz, Walder Wyss Ltd
Walder Wyss Ltd has specialised and established it - self in Switzerland’s real estate sector over the course of many years. Its experienced and well-known real estate team consists of more than 30 lawyers and tax experts, and is one of the largest and most special - ised in Switzerland, enabling it to handle highly com - plex real estate transactions, planning issues and real estate litigation efficiently and with an integrated per -
spective. Walder Wyss advises real estate players in all parts of Switzerland through offices in Zürich, Ge - neva, Basel, Lugano, Bern and Lausanne, which also offer notarial services such as notarisations of sale and purchase agreements. The firm works with cli - ents to develop solutions that generate added value and are executed with interdisciplinary project teams where necessary.
Authors
Francis Nordmann is a partner at Walder Wyss who advises institutional and private clients on all real estate matters. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and has co-authored work
Christian Eichenberger is a partner at Walder Wyss who advises institutional and private clients on all real estate matters. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and the Chamber of Certified
on the Swiss Collective Investment Schemes Act relating to real estate investment funds and on Swiss real estate financing and refinancing, as well as various other articles related to real estate. Francis earned an LLM degree from Melbourne and an MBA from the University of Zürich.
Specialists SBA Construction and Real Estate Law, and has earned law degrees from the universities of Bern, Hawaii at Manõa William S Richardson School of Law and Fribourg, as well as an additional Master’s degree in advanced studies in real estate from the University of Zürich, where he lectures in real estate law, which he also does at the SVIT Swiss Real Estate School.
Johannes Bürgi is a partner and head of the real estate department at
André Kuhn is a partner at Walder Wyss who advises clients on all aspects of real estate law, particularly real estate transactions, real estate investment structures (including club deals), tenancy law and private
Walder Wyss. He advises clients on matters involving real estate, finance, structured finance/securitisation, covered bonds, restructuring, capital markets, banking, securities and corporate law, and has acted as lead counsel on virtually all Swiss securitisation transactions across a variety of asset classes. He was educated at Lausanne and Bern Universities (Dr iur, summa cum laude), and at Stanford Law School (LLM in corporate governance and practice). Johannes is fluent in German, English and French, and regularly publishes in his areas of practice.
building law. He holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in law from the University of Bern (BLaw, MLaw and Dr iur) and regularly publishes in his areas of expertise. André is also admitted as a notary in the Canton of Bern.
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