Marco Toni

IFLR1000 2020 Financial and corporate

"Marco is an excellent lawyer, who understands the needs of a US-based company with significant presence in Switzerland and the rest of Europe. He provides excellent solutions tailored to our business and circumstances in a practical and efficient way."

"Marco is very pragmatic with a strong legal knowledge and commercial understanding."

"Highly diligent and extraordinary individual."

"Marco is great.  He is very responsive, professional and a great lawyer."

Marco heads the Swiss Corporate / M&A practice group and specialises in international and domestic M&A transactions, private equity, corporate governance and general corporate, stock exchange and capital markets laws. He is an Authorized Issuers’ Representative at the SIX Swiss Exchange. His clients include multinational enterprises and private equity funds.

• Advised Bacardi in the USD 5.1bn acquisition of Patròn Spirits.
• Advised Shanghai Pharmaceuticals in the USD 144m acquisition of Takeda Chromo
• Advised Platinum Equity in its USD 630m acquisition of the Lonza Water Care business
• Advised Panduit in its acquisition of Atlona 

• Capital markets: Equity
• M&A
• Private equity
• Restructuring and insolvency

• Consumer goods and services
• Financial services
• Food and beverage
• Investment management
• Pharma and life sciences
• Tech and telecoms

• Switzerland
• New York

• American Bar Association 
• International Bar Association 
• New York Bar Association 
• Zurich Bar Association

• lic. iur., University of Zurich, 2004 
• LL.M., Columbia University School of Law, New York, 2011