Profile
Philipp Candreia specialises in M&A transactions with a focus on regulated markets, in particular financial services and telecom.
Philipp also specialises in banking regulatory licensing and compliance matters, as well as internal and regulatory investigations and enforcement matters.
He advises clients on large shareholding disclosure obligations under Swiss stock exchange regulations, and represents clients before FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority in connection with applications for, and changes to, licenses for FINMA regulated activities.
Experience
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Recent experience includes:
- Wind down of the Swiss private banking branch of an international banking group, including by way of complex cross border asset transfer and referral agreements
- Representing Orange Business Services, Euronext listed Orange Group, in its acquisition of Business & Decision
- Representing a listed Italian appliance manufacturer in the acquisition of a 40% participation in a Swiss manufacturer of coffee machines, including a shareholders agreement with option rights to acquire all remaining shares
- Representing EFG Bank AG in connection with the asset transfer and integration of the business of BSI SA into EFG
- Negotiating a framework agreement for strategic technology and supply collaboration for Navistar regarding Navistar’s strategic alliance with Volkswagen Truck & Bus, including an equity investment in Navistar by Volkswagen Truck & Bus, framework agreements for strategic technology and supply collaboration and a procurement joint venture
- Forensic investigation for a Swiss Private Bank to assess potential individual responsibilities of senior management, directors and key employees in connection with alleged international bribery matters
- Conducting large scale internal investigations for a Swiss Private Bank in connection with money laundering and corruption investigations of Swiss and foreign authorities against third parties in the 1MDB and the FIFA matters
- Representing various clients in connection with cross-border administrative and judicial assistance requests in connection with foreign investigations in competition law, stock exchange, and/or tax matters
- Representing EFG Bank AG for Swiss banking regulatory approvals in connection with the acquisition of BSI SA
- Continuing support for various clients, in particular fund structures, in connection with large shareholding reporting obligations under Art. 120 Financial Market Infrastructure Act FMIA
- Panoramic: Financial Services M&A 2024 – Switzerland in: Financial Services M&A 2024, Lexology Panoramic, June 2024
- Kommentierung Kapitalerhöhungen im Aktienrecht und im GmbH-Recht (Art. 650 – 653i, 653s – 653v und 781 OR), 2023 in: Honsell/Vogt/Watter (Hrsg.): Basler Kommentar zum Schweizerischen Privatrecht, Obligationenrecht II, 6. Auflage, Basel 2023
- LexGTDT: Financial Services M&A: Switzerland, 2022 in: Lexology Getting The Deal Through – Financial Services M&A, Law Business Research, July 2022
- The European, Middle East and African Investigations Review 2022: Switzerland in: Global Investigations Review, 2022
- ICLG Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2022: Switzerland in: International Comparative Legal Guide, Third Edition, Chapter 27, November 2022
- Insidergeschäfte: Pflichten und Risiken des Vermögensverwalters AQUILA Compliance Partnermeeting, Zürich 15. November 2021
- The European, Middle East and African Investigations Review 2021: Switzerland in: Global Investigations Review, 2021
- ICLG Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2021: Switzerland in: International Comparative Legal Guides 2021, Chapter 25, Switzerland
- Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2020 in: The International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) to Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2020, First Edition, November 2019
- The European, Middle East and African Investigations Review 2020: Switzerland in: Global Investigations Review, 2020
- ICLG Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2020: Switzerland in: International Comparative Legal Guides 2020, Chapter 23, Switzerland, pp. 120 – 124
- Art. 271 StGB: Was gilt heute? – Europa Institut Zürich (EIZ), 6. Tagung zu internen und regulatorischen Untersuchungen
- Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2020, Switzerland Chapter 23 in: The International Comparative Legal Guides, October 2019
- Dual Track Transaktionen – Europa Institut Zürich (EIZ), 21. Zürcher Konferenz Mergers & Acquisitions, 4. September 2018
- New stock exchange directive on use of alternative performance measures in: Capital Markets Newsletter – Switzerland, International Law Office, 26 June 2018
2006
University of Zurich, PhD (Thesis in competition law: Group of Companies as market-dominant undertakings)
2003
University of Cambridge, Peterhouse, LL.M.
2001
Admitted to the Bar
1998
University of St. Gallen, lic. iur. HSG
Best Lawyers 2019 – 2025
IFLR1000 2017 – 2024 – Highly Regarded
The Legal500 EMEA 2024 – Recommended
The Legal500 EMEA 2023 – Recommended
The Legal500 EMEA 2022 – Recommended
Chambers Europe 2016 – 2018
Chambers Global 2017
- Swiss Bar Association
- Zurich Bar Association
- IBA International Bar Association
2014
Partner, Niederer Kraft Frey
2011
Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, London
2009
Senior Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2005
Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2003
Doctoral Researcher and Assistant for Private, Commercial and European Law at University of Zurich
1999
Trainee, Niederer Kraft Frey
1999
Clerk, District Court of Lucerne-City
1998
Assistant for European and Public Law at University of St. Gallen (HSG)
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