Philippe Weber has vast experience in high profile corporate/M&A, capital markets and banking transactions. He also regularly advises companies, boards and other parties on takeover law, governance and compliance and represents clients in such matters before regulators, including the SIX Swiss Exchange, the Swiss Takeover Board, the Swiss Financial Markets Supervisory Authority FINMA and other Swiss and foreign regulators.

In addition, Philippe Weber serves on the board of directors of several publicly listed companies and as company secretary of the parent company of CLS Group, which operates the world’s largest foreign exchange settlement system and is a globally systemically important financial markets infrastructure with an average daily settlement volume of USD 6 trillion.

Highlights of transactional advice include:

• Counsel on the largest Swiss IPO of the year in each of the past ten years, i.e. 2014 (SFS),
  2015 (Sunrise), 2016 (VAT), 2017 (Landis+Gyr), 2018 (SIG Combibloc), 2019 (Stadler Rail),
  2020 (Ina Invest), 2021 (PolyPeptide), 2022 (EPIC) and 2024 (Galderma)
• Counsel to NEC Corporation in the CHF 2.05bn acquisition of Swiss Avaloq Group
• Counsel to NYSE and Mexican Stock Exchange listed FEMSA in the CHF 1.14 billion public takeover of SIX listed Valora Holding
• Counsel to Worldline (Atos) in the CHF 2.75 billion acquisition of SIX Payment Services
• Swiss Counsel to KKR and Alliance Boots GmbH (Swiss ParentCo) in the USD multi billion acquisition of Alliance Boots by Walgreen Co.
• Counsel to the Swiss Confederation in the recapitalization of UBS by way of a CHF 6 billion mandatory convertible bond
• Counsel to Orange (France) in the CHF multi billion sale of Orange Switzerland to Apax
• Swiss Counsel to the underwriters and other financing banks in the bank lending, bond and equity financings of SIX listed Dufry for the CHF multi-billion acquisitions of The NuanceGroup and World Duty Free
• Swiss Counsel to GIC and Qatar Holding in their CHF multi-billion investments in equity linked securities of UBS (GIC) and hybrid securities of Credit Suisse Group (QH), respectively
• Swiss counsel to BSI to reach an NPA with the U.S. DOJ under the “Program for Non-Prosecution Agreements or Non-Target Letters for Swiss Banks”. BSI was the first bank to reach a resolution under the Program