Niederer Kraft Frey Ltd advises on the full range of real estate matters across Switzerland. Andreas Vögeli heads the team, focusing on property transactions, including sale-and-leaseback deals, and also hotel and leisure projects and redevelopments of industrial sites. Fabiano Menghini handles asset and share deals, structuring matters and regulatory issues. Marc Iynedjian works on energy infrastructure and real estate transactions, while Annina Fey covers project development, construction contracts, zoning, environmental law and related disputes. December 2025 saw Baker McKenzie Switzerland SA's Charles Gschwind join the team, augmenting the firm's asset and portfolio deal as well as developmental capabilities.
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Testimonials
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- 'The individuals I have worked with truly stand out due to their professionalism, dedication, and exceptional expertise. What sets them apart from competitors is their ability to combine deep knowledge with a proactive and solution-oriented approach, always ensuring the highest quality of work.'
- 'NKF's real estate practice strikes an exceptional balance between rigorous legal analysis and commercial pragmatism.'
- 'Pragmatic approach, very fast response times, highly resilient, high quality, up-to-date expertise, always up to date with the latest legal developments.'
- 'Deep sector knowledge in real estate and construction, very experienced team who delivers highest quality deliverables at all time of a process.'
- 'Fabiano Menghini and Andreas Vögeli exemplify the firm's balanced approach. They demonstrate exceptional legal knowledge while maintaining strong commercial awareness. Both partners are highly responsive, provide clear guidance on complex issues, and most importantly, they understand that deals need to close.'
- 'Andreas Vögeli has experience, is fast moving and has the ability to find and explain solutions. Aninna Fey has high workload and is fully client oriented.'
Key clients
- Zürcher Kantonalbank/Swisscanto Invest/Pensionskasse der Zürcher Kantonalbank
- UBS Asset Management Switzerland
- Schroder Investment Management (Switzerland) AG
- Helvetia Versicherungen
- Cham Properties Swiss AG
- Coop
- Mettler Entwickler AG
- Swiss Finance Property AG
- Swisscom Immobilien AG
- AXA Investment Managers (Schweiz) AG
- Mikron Switzerland AG
- Procimmo SA
Work highlights
Helped Pensionskasse der HOCHDORF-Gruppe with the sale of a residential real estate portfolio spanning the Cantons of Zug and Lucerne.
Assisted Helvetia Insurance on a real estate portfolio sale in the Cantons of Zurich, St. Gallen, Neuchâtel and Basel.
Advised the shareholders of EMWE Holding AG on the sale of EMWE Holding AG, as well as EMWE Immobilien AG.
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Practice head
Andreas Vögeli
Other key lawyers
Fabiano Menghini; Marc Iynedjian; Annina Fey; Charles Gschwind