Lorenzo Olgiati

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Lorenzo Olgiati heads Schellenberg Wittmer’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Zurich. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, securities and stock exchange regulation, private equity transactions and other significant corporate and commercial matters, including advice on corporate governance matters and shareholder activism.

Expertise

Mergers & Acquisitions
Capital Markets
Corporate and Commercial
Energy

Experience

Counsel to Axpo Holding AG, Switzerland’s largest producer of renewable energy, on the sale of Avectris AG, a major Swiss IT service provider to Swiss IT-provider GIA Informatik AG
Counsel to German private equity firm EMERAM and the management shareholders in the sale of leading Swiss 3D people counting sensor and software solutions provider Xovis Holding AG to Swiss private equity firm Capvis
Swiss counsel to SIX-listed ams AG, a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions , in connection with its EUR 4.3 billion all-cash takeover offer for DAX-listed OSRAM Licht AG
Counsel to SIX-listed Panalpina Welttransport (Holding) AG and its board of directors in connection with the CHF 4.6 billion public exchange offer by DSV A/S (listed at NASDAQ Copenhagen)
Counsel to SIX Group on the carve-out and sale of SIX Payment Services into a strategic partnership with Euronext-listed Worldline at a total consideration of CHF 2.75 billion

Professional Experience

2003
Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer
1998
Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer
1997
Foreign Associate in a law firm in New York
Education and Admission
1997
LL.M., Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
1996
Bar Admission in Switzerland
1995
Dr. iur., University of Zurich
1989
lic. iur., University of Zurich

Additional Professional Activities

Co-editor of takeoverpractice.ch, Schellenberg Wittmer’s innovative website on Swiss Takeover Law
Lecturer in the University of Zurich’s LL.M. program on International Banking and Finance Law
Serves as an officer of the International Bar Association’s Corporate and M&A Law Committee

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