Walder Wyss has had a solid year and strengthens its positions across the board. In banking and finance, the firm advised Barclays Bank, as Swiss legal counsel, on a €1 billion restructuring transaction....
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Walder Wyss has had a solid year and strengthens its positions across the board. In banking and finance, the firm advised Barclays Bank, as Swiss legal counsel, on a €1 billion restructuring transaction. The case was connected to the financing of a pan-European hotel. "From Walder Wyss, Eric (Enrico) Friz. I've been with him for the last three years. I have lots to do with him in the capital markets, refinancing and restructuring, a very fine guy," one peer says. In M&A, the firm acted as Swiss legal advisor to the sellers, two of whom were HBM Bioventure and Polish Delta Group, in the €350 million sale of PharmaSwis to Valeant Pharmaceuticals. Furthermore, in restructuring and insolvency, the firm advised Citibank, Citigroup, UniCredit, HVB and KfW in an insolvency litigation. One major part of the proceedings has been its successful defence of US, UK and German banks against claw back actions by the liquidator of the Swissair estate.
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