SWITZERLAND Law and Practice Contributed by: Mariel Hoch, Dominic Leu and Fabienne Perlini-Frehner, Bär & Karrer
Bär & Karrer is a leading Swiss law firm with more than 200 lawyers in Zurich, Geneva, Lugano, Zug, Basel and St. Moritz. Its core business is advising clients on innovative and complex transactions and representing them in litigation, arbitration and regu- latory proceedings. The firm’s clients range from multinational corporations to private individuals in Switzerland and around the world. Most of the firm’s
work has an international component. It has broad experience handling cross-border proceedings and transactions, and its extensive network consists of correspondent law firms that are all market leaders in their jurisdictions. Bär & Karrer has been repeat- edly awarded Switzerland Law Firm of the Year by the most important international legal ranking agencies in recent years. Dominic Leu is an associate at Bär & Karrer who focuses his practice on public and private M&A transactions, M&A-related litigation and general corporate, commercial and regulatory matters. He advises clients across various industry sectors, including financial services, pharma and private equity.
Authors
Mariel Hoch is one of Bär & Karrer’s leading M&A partners and co-heads the public M&A practice. She has broad experience across a wide range of industries and focuses on listed companies and public takeover offers, domestic and cross-border M&A, general corporate and securities matters – including proxy fights, hostile defences, corporate governance and corporate relocations. She leads complex transactions for industrial clients, private equity investors and private investors, in Switzerland and abroad, in a variety of industries. Mariel is a member of the board of several listed companies. She has frequent speaking engagements and teaches regularly at public and private universities.
Fabienne Perlini-Frehner is an associate at Bär & Karrer who focuses on public takeover law and listed companies. She has broad experience in advising both offerors and target companies in the context
of public tender offers and regularly publishes in her areas of expertise. In addition, Fabienne advises companies on national and international M&A transactions as well as on general corporate law matters.
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