Dr Oliver Künzler > Wenger Plattner > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile

The team at Wenger Plattner acts for its varied client roster of hospitals, insurance companies, and healthcare organisations. In Basel, practice head Tobias Meili is noted for his broad knowledge of M&A, corporate governance issues, and banking and finance matters, and Carlo Conti regularly assists clients with mandates involving healthcare, governmental, and administrative law. Zurich’s Oliver Künzler handles a range of cross-border M&A, and restructurings.

Areas of tax law covered by Wenger Plattner‘s expanding team include M&A tax, corporate tax, international tax, lump sum taxation, and VAT, with the group experienced in acting on behalf of both individuals and businesses. Team lead Markus Mühlemann covers a broad range of matters, including those involving complex and international elements. The team is supported by Oliver Künzler, who has expertise in financing tax, and Christian Martin Gutekunst, who advises clients on national and international tax including VAT.

Wenger Plattner advises banks, asset managers, and securities dealers on regulatory issues and acts on their behalf in dealings with Swiss regulatory bodies and self-regulatory organisations, such as FINMA and SIX Swiss Exchange. The team also assists clients with the setting up of investment funds, drafting agreements, licenses and permits, and financing transactions. Practice head Filippo Th. Beck regularly advises entrepreneurs, companies and individuals on contract law, asset structuring, and compliance as well as acting as an investigating agent for banks and financial institutions. Oliver Künzler has expertise in private equity and venture capital transactions and financings.

Oliver Künzler leads Wenger Plattner‘s corporate and commercial department, which is capable of implementing M&A transactions under the Swiss Merger Act, as well as possessing considerable knowledge of Swiss-related asset and M&A transactions. Marc S Nater principally advises clients on public and private M&A, private equity and commercial law, while Benjamin Dürig bolsters the practice with his thorough knowledge of M&A and corporate finance transactions.