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Roman Sturzenegger advises domestic and international clients on corporate law and corporate governance, complex corporate reorganisation, insolvency and restructuring, domestic and cross-border M&A transactions (including private equity, venture capital and distressed M&A transactions), corporate financing and general commercial law. He represents clients in corporate and commercial disputes.
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Roman Sturzenegger advises domestic and international clients on:
- Corporate law and corporate governance
- Complex corporate reorganisation, insolvency and restructuring
- Domestic and cross-border M&A transactions (including private equity, venture capital and distressed M&A transactions)
- Corporate financing
- General commercial law
He represents clients in corporate and commercial disputes.
Examples of experience as part of the NKF team:
- Advising EPIC Suisse AG on its CHF 196 million initial public offering on SIX Swiss Exchange
- Advising gategroup as Swiss legal counsel in connection with the restructuring, the interim liquidity financing, and the refinancing covering corporate, finance and insolvency law aspects with the project leading to a land mark decision by an English Court on the legal qualification of a restructuring plan (qualified as insolvency matter) with the English Court accepting jurisdiction to allow the involved stakeholders to amend the terms of the Swiss law governed bonds
- Advising Swiss Steel Holding in a contested CHF 247m capital increase
- Advising Thomson Reuters in a major and complex cross-border restructuring resulting in Thomson Reuters selling its Financial & Risk business, nowadays known as Refinitiv, into a joint venture managed by Blackstone for a price of USD 17 billion
- Advising Landis+Gyr Group and its shareholders Toshiba and INCJ in the dual track (Trade Sale/IPO) exit process resulting in the CHF 2.3 billion IPO of Landis+Gyr Group on SIX, the largest Swiss IPO of the past 10 years and second largest IPO in Europe in 2017
- Advising OC Oerlikon Corporation AG, Pfäffikon, listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, in the CHF 1 billion acquisition of Sulzer Metco
- Pre-Pack Transactions under Swiss Law Speaker at the 13th Conference on Restructuring and Insolvency of Business Ventures of the European Institute of the University of Zurich, Zurich, 16 June 2022
- The Revision of the Swiss Stock Corporation Law, what has been archived, what opportunities were missed Speaker at the ExpertSuisse conferences on the revised Swiss stock corporation law, Zurich, 10 May and 29 November 2022
- Chambers Insolvency 2022 Practice Guide
- Revision of the Swiss Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Act: the segregation of crypto-based assets and data in bankruptcy proceedings in: Insolvency & Restructuring International, April 2022, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p. 48 et seq.
- Insolvency 2021: Switzerland in: Chambers Global Practice Guide 2021
- Discontinuation of Bankruptcy Proceeding due to a Lack of Assets: The End of all Rights? Speaker at the 12th Conference on Restructuring and Insolvency of Business Ventures of the European Institute of the University of Zurich, 2 June 2021
- Private equity in Switzerland – market and regulatory overview, 2020 in: Practical Law/ Thomson Reuters, 2020
- Bankruptcy of a Factoring Company from a Practitioner’s Perspective Jusletter 26/2019
- International Redomiciliation of LLC in: Theus Simoni/Hauser/Bärtschi (Hrsg.), Handbuch Schweizer GmbH-Recht, Basel 2019
- Private equity in Switzerland – market and regulatory overview in: Practical Law/ Thomson Reuters, February 2019
- Crucial Civil Law Matters of Joint Venture Structures in: schulthess manager handbuch 2017, Zurich/Basel/Geneva 2017
- Private equity in Switzerland: market and regulatory overview in: Practical Law Multi-jurisdictional Guide 2016/17 Private Equity and Venture Capital, Thomson Reuters, February 2017
- Zivilrechtliche Kernpunkte zum Joint Venture in: Sonderdruck aus “schulthess manager handbuch 2017”, Schulthess Juristische Medien AG, Zürich · Basel · Genf 2017, S. 115-124
2015
University of Manchester, LL.M. in Corporate Governance
2010
Admitted to the Bar
2007
University of Fribourg, MLaw
2006
University of Fribourg, BLaw
IFLR1000 2024 – Rising Star
The Legal500 EMEA 2024 – Recommended
The Legal500 EMEA 2023 – Recommended
The Legal500 EMEA 2021 – Recommended
- IBA International Bar Association
- Swiss Bar Association
- Zurich Bar Association
- AIJA Association International des Jeunes Avocats
- INSOL Europe
- SchKG-Vereinigung, Vereinigung für Schuldbetreibungs- und Konkursrecht
2023
Partner, Niederer Kraft Frey
2017
Senior Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2012
Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2010
Legal Counsel, Masai Marketing & Trading AG and MBT-Group, Winterthur
2008
Junior Associate with a law firm in Berne
2008
Trainee with the public prosecution department for white-collar and organised crime, Berne
German
English