Walder Wyss Ltd.’s banking and finance group has an established foothold in secured financing, acquisition and structured finance. On the regulatory front, the team is well-versed in securing regulatory approvals, and also advising on licensing matters and restructuring processes. Practice head Thomas Müller, who operates in the technology, banking, and telecoms sectors, is singled out for his capabilities in fintech and blockchain regulation. Asset-based lending and structured finance are core areas of focus for Lukas Wyss, while leveraged finance and syndicated lending are central to Theodor Härtsch’s practice. Seasoned practitioner Luc Defferrard assists the team with leveraged finance and syndicated lending mandates. David Borer also comes recommended for his expertise in, inter alia, acquisition and real estate financing transactions.

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Testimonials

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‘The team is hands-on, very diligent and extremely rapid.’
‘Theodor Härtsch is excellent, top of the class.’
‘Lukas Wyss and his team are working as a true team, hands on and still creative in a positive way, handling equally excellent plain vanilla as well as out of the box transactions. We receive full partner attention and deadlines are always kept. Our go-to firm in Switzerland.’
‘Lukas Wyss is the partner we always go to. Lukas is an excellent lawyer, creative and business-oriented, with excellent market knowledge and also outstanding commercial understanding.’
‘Goal-oriented, efficient, pragmatic approach. Focus on the essential. Excellent knowledge of the Swiss debt market and its specialities.’

Key clients

Goldman Sachs
Deutsche Bank
UBS Switzerland AG
Citibank
ING Bank
UniCredit
Funds advised by Bregal Unternehmerkapital
UBS AG
Valiant Bank
PostFinance

Work highlights

Advised Goldman Sachs on the financing of the acquisition of a non-performing loan portfolio. with a nominal value of €33bn and a book value of €1bn.

Advised Deutsche Bank, ING Bank and UniCredit in their role as joint underwriters and bookrunners of the financing of the acquisition of 100% of Vodafone Italy by Swisscom AG from the Vodafone Group for an enterprise value of €8bn.

Advised Cembra Money Bank as issuer and Zürcher Kantonalbank as sole arranger and lead manager on the set-up of Cembra’s CHF1bn auto covered bond programme, guaranteed as to payments of interest and principal by Cembra Auto Finance AG.

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