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Christoph Vonlanthen
Geneva
Zurich

Christoph Vonlanthen, LL.M.

Partner

+41 22 707 8177

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Christoph Vonlanthen, LL.M.

Partner

+41 44 215 5252

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Pascaline Kempf

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pascaline.kempf@swlegal.ch

Christoph Vonlanthen is a specialist in mergers & acquisitions, growth equity, corporate governance and capital markets.

Christoph is a partner based both in our Geneva and Zurich offices, and has vast experience accumulated in Switzerland, New York, and London in market-leading transactions, including buyouts, divestitures, spin-merge transactions, exchange offers, carve-outs, rights offerings and IPOs in a range of industries. He regularly advises strategics, financial sponsors and investment banks on complex cross-border assignments. Christoph also assists fund managers and institutional investors on structured investments, co-investments and secondary sale transactions.

Expertise

  Mergers & Acquisitions   Capital Markets
  Banking & Finance   Restructuring and Insolvency

Experience

  • Christoph advises clients on large and complex public and private M&A transactions across multiple industries, including tech, pharma, healthcare, asset management, banking, insurance, infrastructure, retail, and transportation. Christoph has recently advised a consortium of private investors in the carve-out acquisition of retail industry leader Conforama Switzerland, a shipping company in its more than $1.5 billion spin-merge transaction; a real estate company in its £1.5 billion all-share merger; a pharma company in its $3.5 billion acquisition of a generic drug manufacturer; and a private equity firm in its secondary buy-out of a global security services provider.
  • Christoph has advised clients on many of their strategically significant capital markets and corporate matters, including IPO, follow-on equity offerings, investment grade debt offerings and rights offerings. Among other assignments, Christoph has advised one of the largest publicly traded European investment holding companies on its IPO; an oil and gas group in its more than $3 billion high grade debt offerings; and a global full-service bank in its $15 billion rights offering.
  • Christoph's experience in leveraged finance includes multiple assignments in high-yield bond offerings, bridge loans and liability management. Experience highlights include advising the underwriters in a £500 million bridge-to-bond financing for the acquisition of a specialty insurance group; the underwriters to a major car manufacturer in its inaugural £1 billion equivalent offering of high-yield bonds and multiple follow-on offerings; and a global telecommunication company in its more than $2 billion comprehensive liability management transactions.
  • Christoph has also assisted institutional investors and family offices on anchor and seed investments, co-investments and secondary trades. Most recently, Christoph has advised a large European investment holding company in its more than $150 million seed investment in a global technology fund.

Career

Professional Experience
2019
Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer
2006-2019
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in London and New York
2003-2005
Associate in a Swiss business law firm
Education and Admission
2007
Bar Admission in New York
2006
LL.M., University of Pennsylvania
2003
Bar Admission in Switzerland
2001
lic. iur., University of Fribourg
Additional Professional Activities
  • Authorized representative at SIX Swiss Exchange

Recognitions

  • IFLR 1000: Rising Star Partner, Capital Markets and M&A
  • Legal 500: Capital Markets, from 2021 to 2022; Commercial, Corporate and M&A 2022
  • Leaders League: Banking & Finance, Capital Markets from 2021 to 2022

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • German

Selected Publications

  Swiss M&A - Warranties, Indemnities and Insurance in Private M&A, 2023 Edition   Swiss M&A - Carve out Transactions, 2023 Edition   High-Yield Debt – Switzerland, 2023 Edition   Environmental, Social & Governance Law 2022 – the Chapter on Switzerland
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Speaking Engagements

  Christoph Vonlanthen: Speaker at the IPO workshop in Montreux on key decision points for decision-makers   Christoph Vonlanthen: Speaker at AON M&A Corporate Webinar   Christoph Vonlanthen: Speaker at Europa Institut Seminar "Kapitalmarkt - Recht und Transaktionen XVI"
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