We are NKF

Niederer Kraft Frey is a Swiss corporate law firm with an international approach. We offer integrated advice across the whole spectrum of corporate, finance and business law. We have a long track record of dealing effectively with complex challenges by combining legal excellence with a commercial focus. Over decades, Niederer Kraft Frey has worked on the most significant and demanding matters in the Swiss market. This is the foundation of our distinct market knowledge, legal expertise and our capacity for innovative thought.

We are an international team of more than 140 lawyers, of whom 51 are partners. The focus of Niederer Kraft Frey is the business of our clients.

We work daily on matters involving complex multijurisdictional issues and several working languages. We advise in 13 different languages:

German · English · French · Italian · Czech · Dutch · Hebrew · Hungarian · Norwegian · Russian · Spanish · Portuguese · Swedish

Rankings

Niederer Kraft Frey is regularly ranked in tier 1 by independent legal directories with our lawyers also ranked as leaders:

• ITR World Tax 2025: Tax; Indirect Tax and Private Client
• Chambers Global (2024): Banking & Finance; Capital Markets; Corporate/M&A; Dispute Resolution: Litigation
• Chambers Europe (2024): Banking & Finance; Capital Markets; Corporate/M&A; Dispute Resolution – Litigation
• Legal 500 (2024): Banking & Finance; Capital Markets; Commercial, Corporate/M&A; Dispute Resolution – Litigation; Employment; Real Estate and Construction; Tax
• Legal 500 EMEA Green Guide 2023: Recommended Firm
• Leaders League (2024): Banking & Finance; Banking & Finance Litigation; Capital Markets; Corporate / M&A; Corporate Tax; Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime; Fintech; IT & Outsourcing; Labor Advisory; Labor Litigation; Restructuring & Insolvency; Sports Law; Wealth Management
• IFLR (2024): Banking & Finance; Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity; Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitisation; Financial Services Regulatory; Mergers & Acquisitions
• IP Stars (2023): IP Transactions
• Benchmark Litigation Europe (2022): Commercial and Transactions Litigation

We are highly ranked in all other areas, and are proud to have such an esteemed reputation.

Awards

For decades, Niederer Kraft Frey has been acknowledged as a top-tier law firm. We regularly receive international recognition of our work, confirming our leading market position:

• Leaders League Alliance Summit Awards 2024: Best Law Firm: DACH
• Legalcommunity Switzerland Awards 2024: Market Leader Award and Deal of the Year: IPO Galderma
• Best Lawyers 2024/Handelsblatt 2023: Law Firm of the Year for M&A
• Leaders League Alliance Summit Awards 2023: Best Law Firm of the Year: Switzerland
• IFLR Europe Awards 2023: National Law Firm of the Year: Switzerland
• IFLR Europe Awards 2023: Deal of the Year: Equity
• Citywealth Magic Circle Awards 2022 & 2021: Diversity/Gender Programme of the Year
• Legalcommunity Switzerland Awards 2022: Law Firm of the Year Banking & Finance
• LMG Life Sciences Awards Europe 2021: European Corporate Firm of the Year
• IFLR Europe Awards 2021: Swiss Banking and Finance Firm of the Year
• Who’s Who Legal Switzerland Awards 2021: Law Firm of the Year for Capital Markets
• Women in Business Law Europe Awards 2020: Swiss Law Firm of the Year
• Benchmark Litigation Europe Awards 2020: Dispute Resolution Firm of the Year – Switzerland

Furthermore, NKF is the first and only Swiss law firm ever to have been awarded “European Law Firm of the Year” by The Lawyer.

Niederer Kraft Frey is a partnership and a stock corporation – Aktiengesellschaft – owned by all of our partners equally and governed by a Board of Directors on which all partners sit with equal rights. The day-to-day business of the firm is managed by an Executive Committee elected by the partners of NKF.

We put the interests of our clients at the very top of our priorities. Our professional independence and our freedom from internal constraints flow from our understanding of the role of a lawyer as an independent professional advisor.

Our flexible approach means we can work in fluid team sizes, within or across practice areas and industry sectors, depending on client need. Your project, not our internal structures, defines your NKF team.

We harness our network of leading firms in other jurisdictions to form tailored, seamless project teams across borders quickly. We are always ready to meet your next challenge in the most efficient and effective way.