Prof Dr iur Urs Schenker > Walder Wyss Ltd > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
Walder Wyss Ltd Offices
SEEFELDSTRASSE 123
PO BOX 1236
8034 ZURICH
Switzerland
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Prof Dr iur Urs Schenker
Work Department
Corporate / M&A.
Position
Urs Schenker is senior counsel at Walder Wyss. His practice areas include Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financing and Restructurings, and Capital Markets. Urs Schenker is very experienced in the areas of restructuring, financing, capital markets, M&A and company law. He has been involved in numerous national and international M&A transactions and public takeovers as well as financing, restructuring and other corporate finance transactions. He has published a number of books and specialist articles in his fields of expertise and is a regular lecturer at conferences in Switzerland and abroad.
Career
2015 Senior Counsel Walder Wyss Attorneys Zurich
1991 Partner Baker & McKenzie Zurich
1985 Associate Baker & McKenzie Zurich
1983 Law Clerk Baker & McKenzie Zurich
1982 Research Assistant University of Zurich (conflicts of law and contract)
Languages
German, English, French, Italian, Spanish.
Memberships
President of the Harvard Club of Switzerland.
Education
2016 Professor (Titular Professor) University of St. Gallen
2009 PD (associate professor) University of St. Gallen
1985 LL.M., Harvard Law School
1984 Dr. iur., University of Zurich (summa cum laude)
1984 Admission to the bar of canton Zurich
1984 Harvard Law School
1981 lic. iur., University of Zurich (summa cum laude)
Leisure
Golf.
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Commercial, corporate and M&A
With approximately 50 M&A professionals, sizeable firm Walder Wyss Ltd is renowned for its ‘deep commercial understanding, excellent regulatory relationships, as well as its extremely practical and business-oriented advice‘. Major highlights include Urs Schenker‘s assistance to the Burkard family with the CHF3.22bn sale of all shares in Schenker-Winkler Holding to Saint-Gobain, as well as Markus Pfenninger advice to 40 North Latitude Master Fund on its acquisition of a significant stake in Clariant . Practice head Urs Gnos, Alexander Nikitine and banking M&A specialist Patrick W Vogel, who ‘demonstrates outstanding commitment, sound judgement and a deep legal understanding‘, are other names to note.
Switzerland > Dispute resolution: litigation
With multiple offices in every region of Switzerland, Walder Wyss Ltd focuses on commercial litigation, the enforcement of foreign judgement, as well as infrastructure, construction, engineering, banking, post-M&A and shareholder disputes. Team lead Dieter Hofmann is representing Eurobank Ergasias in its asset recovery claim against one of its former managers, who was charged with embezzlement via unsecured loans. Counsel Urs Schenker acted for the Burkard family in the £2.5bn dispute over the Sika takeover and the sale of a controlling stake in the company to Saint-Gobain. Michael Buhler and Oliver Kunz are other names to note in Zurich, while Rodolphe Gautier is the key partner in Geneva.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets
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- Dispute resolution: litigation
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- Intellectual property
- Leading firms: Italian-speaking Switzerland
- Private client
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
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