Christoph Vonlanthen

Christoph Vonlanthen is a corporate partner in our Geneva and Zurich offices and the head of our Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate & Commercial groups in Geneva. Christoph is a specialist in mergers & acquisitions, growth equity, corporate governance, and capital markets.

Christoph has vast experience accumulated in Switzerland, London and New York in market-leading transactions, including buyouts, divestitures, mergers, spin-offs, exchange offers, carve-outs, rights offerings, IPOs, distressed M&A and restructurings in a range of industries.

He regularly advises strategics, financial sponsors and investment banks on complex cross-border and domestic assignments, as well as boards of directors on corporate governance, including disclosure issues and activism.

Christoph also assists fund managers and institutional investors on structured investments, co-investments and secondary sale transactions.

• The carve-out acquisition of retail industry leader Conforama and its subsequent two-step divestiture to XXXLutz with Swiss merger control clearance
• The cross-border sale of sustainability consultancy leader Quantis International SA to The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.
• Swisscanto Private Equity on its investment as lead investor in the Series B financing of Zurich-based Distran
• REYL on Varia Europe Properties' at-the-market rights offering of 2,166,161 shares
• SIX-listed OC Oerlikon in its offerings of CHF 340 million investment grade dual-tranche senior unsecured bonds and CHF 575 million investment grade three series of unsecured bonds

• M&A
• Capital markets

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate & Commercial
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Life Sciences
• Capital Markets
• Banking & Finance
• ESG

• lic. iur., University of Fribourg, 2001
• LL.M., University of Pennsylvania, 2006

• Authorized representative at SIX Swiss Exchange

• Switzerland, 2003
• New York, 2007