Switzerland

Firm overview

Pestalozzi is a Swiss business law firm focusing on high-end work for domestic and international clients since 1911. The firm guides and supports its clients in their strategic business decisions, anticipates their future challenges and helps them solve their critical issues.

Pestalozzi lawyers are strong and empathic personalities, known for their truly independent approach to advising and representing their clients. They are capable of handling complex transactions and are team players within interdisciplinary project groups.

The firm is part of the Lex Mundi international network and can draw on an extensive international network of lawyers in other jurisdictions, with whom they work seamlessly in multi-jurisdictional matters.

Pestalozzi predominantly represents and advises enterprises as well as associations, public institutions, foundations, and private individuals in economic and legal affairs with a connection to Switzerland. About half of the clients are located in Switzerland while the other half is located all over the world and includes top-ranked enterprises, as well as medium-sized and smaller companies from a broad range of sectors.

Firm overview

CMS von Erlach Partners is a leading full-service law firm in Switzerland with more than 110 lawyers and tax experts and a total staff exceeding 160 employees.

Our history dates back to more than 80 years, and our reputation in the market for legal and tax services has been strong and established ever since. We serve our clients from our offices in Switzerland's main business centres, Zurich and Geneva.

Our experts advise Swiss and international companies, including multinationals, financial institutions, start-ups, government agencies, public utilities, entrepreneurs and individuals across all industries and fields of law.

As your business partner, we offer you our local expertise combined with the global reach and capabilities of CMS international, with access to 5,000+ lawyers worldwide in 75+ offices in more than 40 countries.

Firm overview

Bratschi - a full service law firm advising national and international enterprises, individuals and the public sector - offers one-stop assistance out of six major business centres covering the whole territory of Switzerland.

At Bratschi we set great store on a personal and long-term relationship, where matters are dealt with high partner attention.

The combination of local roots with in-depth business and industry knowledge, together with expertise in cross-border issues and cross-cultural skills is characteristic to Bratschi.

Firm overview

As the sixth largest Swiss commercial law firm, MLL Legal advises its clients in all traditional areas of commercial law and is particularly recognized for its first-class industry expertise in technically innovative specialist areas such as fintech, blockchain and artificial intelligence, but also in regulated and innovative industries such as financial services, life sciences, telecommunications, real estate and retail and luxury. MLL Legal employs 250 people, including 150 lawyers, at its four Swiss offices in Zurich, Geneva, Zug and Lausanne, as well as at its international offices in London and Madrid.

MLL Legal's unique, truly integrated, international structure reflects a strong cross-border focus. Its lawyers value and promote continuity and strong client relationships. MLL Legal's teams are tailor-made, assembled from every practice area and across our network of offices.

MLL Legal’s growing banking and finance team has the expertise and specialisation to cover every aspect of legal financial services work, in addition to offering extensive transactional knowledge. Its team members also have in-depth operational experience, invaluable for many clients in a period of rapid and complex regulatory change.

MLL Legal's clients include banks and other financial services providers and institutions. The firm can service them in all legal questions relating to their business, from regulatory issues to banking contracts and complex financing transactions, through to structuring financial products and having them listed on the stock exchange.

Several of the firm's partners serve on the boards of financial institutions, and clients regularly look to MLL Legal for guidance and support on the reorganisation required to keep pace with today’s rapid cycles of regulatory change.