Zurich

Dr. Lorenzo Olgiati, LL.M.

Partner

+41 44 215 5268 lorenzo.olgiati@swlegal.ch

Christoph Iten

Assistant

Lorenzo Olgiati heads Schellenberg Wittmer’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Zurich. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, securities and stock exchange regulation, private equity transactions and other significant corporate and commercial matters, including advice on ESG / corporate governance matters and shareholder activism.

Expertise

Mergers & Acquisitions Capital Markets Corporate & Commercial

Energy ESG

Experience

Counsel to Axpo Holding AG, Switzerland’s largest producer of renewable energy, on the sale of Avectris AG, a major Swiss IT service provider to GIA Informatik AG (today Aveniq)
Counsel to German private equity firm EMERAM and the management shareholders in the sale of leading Swiss 3D people counting sensor and software solutions provider Xovis Holding AG to Swiss private equity firm Capvis
Swiss counsel to SIX-listed ams AG, a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions , in connection with its EUR 4.3 billion all-cash takeover offer for DAX-listed OSRAM Licht AG
Counsel to SIX-listed Panalpina Welttransport (Holding) AG and its board of directors in connection with the CHF 4.6 billion public exchange offer by DSV A/S (listed at NASDAQ Copenhagen)
Counsel to SIX Group on the carve-out and sale of SIX Payment Services into a strategic partnership with Euronext-listed Worldline at a total consideration of CHF 2.75 billion

Career

Professional Experience

2003

Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer

1998

Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer

1997

Foreign Associate in a law firm in New York

Education and Admission

1997

LL.M., Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

1996

Bar Admission in Switzerland

1995

Dr. iur., University of Zurich

1989

lic. iur., University of Zurich

Additional Professional Activities

Co-editor of takeoverpractice.ch, Schellenberg Wittmer's innovative website on Swiss Takeover Law
Lecturer in the University of Zurich's LL.M. program on International Banking and Finance Law
Serves as an officer of the International Bar Association’s Corporate and M&A Law Committee

Recognitions

Chambers and Partners Global/Europe: Corporate/M&A since 2009
The Legal 500: Key Lawyer in Capital Markets; Key Lawyer in Commercial, Corporate and M&A
Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leader in M&A and Governance since 2018
IFLR 1000: Highly Regarded, Private equity and M&A
Expert Guides: M&A, Private Equity, Corporate Governance, Transactional Law
Leaders League Corporate/M&A & Capital Markets

Languages

German
English
French

Selected Publications

Chambers - Corporate Governance 2024, Switzerland Mergers & Acquisitions Aktionärsvertreter im Verwaltungsrat von Publikumsgesellschaften – Möglichkeiten und Schranken der Einflussnahme durch Grossaktionäre European Takeovers: The Art of Acquisition. 2nd Edition Shareholder Activism in der Schweiz – aktuelle Entwicklungen und Rechtsfragen

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Speaking Engagements

Lorenzo Olgiati: Speaker at Investora - Die Schweizer Aktienkonferenz in Zürich Lorenzo Olgiati: Speaker at 8th IBA Corporate and Private M&A Conference Another record-breaking IBA European Corporate and Private M&A Conference in Paris