Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Mergers & Acquisitions / Capital Markets / Corporate & Commercial / Energy / ESG

Lorenzo Olgiati heads Schellenberg Wittmer’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Zurich. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, securities and stock exchange regulation, private equity transactions and other significant corporate and commercial matters, including advice on ESG / corporate governance matters and shareholder activism.

Experience:

• Counsel to Axpo Holding AG, Switzerland’s largest producer of renewable energy, on the sale of Avectris AG, a major Swiss IT service provider to GIA Informatik AG (today Aveniq)
• Counsel to German private equity firm EMERAM and the management shareholders in the sale of leading Swiss 3D people counting sensor and software solutions provider Xovis Holding AG to Swiss private equity firm Capvis
• Swiss counsel to SIX-listed ams AG, a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions , in connection with its EUR 4.3 billion all-cash takeover offer for DAX-listed OSRAM Licht AG
• Counsel to SIX-listed Panalpina Welttransport (Holding) AG and its board of directors in connection with the CHF 4.6 billion public exchange offer by DSV A/S (listed at NASDAQ Copenhagen)
• Counsel to SIX Group on the carve-out and sale of SIX Payment Services into a strategic partnership with Euronext-listed Worldline at a total consideration of CHF 2.75 billion

2003 - Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer

1998 - Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer

1997 - Foreign Associate in a law firm in New York

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Co-editor of takeoverpractice.ch, Schellenberg Wittmer's innovative website on Swiss Takeover Law Lecturer in the University of Zurich's LL.M. program on International Banking and Finance Law Serves as an officer of the International Bar Association’s Corporate and M&A Law Committee

1997 - LL.M., Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

1996 - Bar Admission in Switzerland

1995 - Dr. iur., University of Zurich

1989 - lic. iur., University of Zurich