Mr Stephan Erni > Lenz & Staehelin > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile

Considered ‘an exceptional firm that is highly regarded in the industry’, Lenz & Staehelin is entrusted by international federations, clubs and individual athletes and agents for assistance with a variety of sports issues, with a particular emphasis on the contentious side. The ‘exceptionally sharp’ Xavier Favre-Bulle, who is highly capable in relation to sports law, arbitration and litigation, and Stephan Erni, who demonstrates particular proficiencies in the remit of trade mark licensing and sponsorship agreements, co-helm the department. Lucien Masmejan is frequently active on sport organisation and structuring mandates. Other players to note in the group include Hikmat Maleh, Sevan Antreasyan, and Peter Ling.

With a strong presence across the financial services, chemical, and TMT sectors, Lenz & Staehelin acts for a consortium of clients in relation to public takeovers, private transactions, and venture capital mandates, among other matters, and is well regarded for being a team of ‘creative and commercially minded problem solvers’. The practice is jointly helmed by Tino Gaberthüel and Andreas Rötheli; the former fields a strong practice that spans an array of public and private M&A, as well as private equity, and the latter is routinely entrusted by global clients for assistance with an extensive variety of M&A transactions. Stephan Erni is an experienced practitioner regarding private M&A transactions in the fields of healthcare, real estate and sports law, while Jacques Iffland deploys his vast experience operating in the field to act for a myriad of public companies. Matthias Wolf utilises his more than 25 years of experience to handle a range of M&A, corporate law, and securities law matters, and Simone Ehrsam contributes her strengths in private equity buyouts to the group.