• Corporate and Commercial

    Our Corporate and Commercial team offers top-tier expertise in advising and defending companies and entrepreneurs.

    Team members

Corporate and Commercial

Our Corporate and Commercial team offers top-tier expertise in advising and defending companies and entrepreneurs.

By combining the knowledge and extensive experience of our team in all areas of corporate and contract law with the recognized experience of a former professor specialized in the field, we guide our clients through every stage of their development. The strength of our team lies in its ability to anticipate the challenges that businesses may face.

We are among the recognized players in the Swiss transactions market. Our experience covers the full spectrum of key commercial law mandates, from mergers and acquisitions to private equity, as well as litigation and restructuring across various business sectors.

Corporate Affairs

  • Choice of the most appropriate legal structure, drafting of articles of incorporation, keeping of corporate and regulatory documentation, follow-up of formalities related to corporate regulatory obligations
  • Drafting and negotiation of contracts related to corporate acquisitions, divestitures, restructuring or transformation

Entrepreneur Legal Framework

  • Structuring and legal organization of investments
  • Advice and assistance in equity capital operations (increase or reduction of capital, obligations, participations)
  • Management buy out

Shareholder Legal Framework

  • Drafting of shareholders’ agreements
  • Setting up of profit-sharing schemes, ESOPs, etc.

Contractual Law

  • Drafting and follow-up of contractual relationships with the company’s clients, suppliers and other third parties
  • Drafting and follow-up of intra-group agreements

Corporate Asset Protection

  • Assistance with corporate protection, unfair competition and protection of (trade)name

Assistance to Companies in Critical Financial Situations

  • Liquidation, bankruptcy proceedings, business recovery plans, relationships with creditors and debtors

Publications

To prevent the misuse of bankruptcy, the legislator has decided to amend certain rules with effect from 1st January 2025

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Around 15,000 bankruptcies are opened in Switzerland every year. Over 40% of them are suspended due to insufficient assets, making them ineligible for realisation.

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Online signature, electronic signature: what’s the difference?

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There are a number of principles to bear in mind when deciding whether to sign online, so that the parties involved are aware of a number of points.

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Team Members

Marco Villa
Head of practice | Geneva

+41 22 849 60 40
mvilla@fbt.ch

Team

Jérôme Bissardon
Jean-Luc Bochatay
Nathaniel Binquet
Julien Le Fort
Valentin André

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