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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Notable practitioner
Bar Admissions:
Switzerland
Practice Areas:
Banking
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Financial services
Languages:
German
English
Biography

Adrian Koller specialises in the fields of public and private M&A and on financing transactions, including complex acquisition and other structured financings. Adrian also advises on capital markets transactions and other corporate and commercial law matters.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advising Credit Suisse, acting as agent and coordinator, and further banks on a syndicated financing for Alpiq Holding AG (2022)
  • Advising the founders and shareholder of Akara Group on the sale of Akara Group to Swiss Prime Site (2022)
  • Advising Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd., ING Bank N.V. and the syndicate on the landmark refinancing of Green’s existing credit facilities agreement (2021)
  • Zürcher Kantonalbank and the banking syndicate on the refinancing of Swisscom AG (2021)
  • The steering committee of the lenders of Benteler Group, comprising Commerzbank AG, DZ BANK AG, Erste Group Bank AG, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, and Norddeutsche Landesbank on the now completed full refinancing, which is part of a fundamental restructuring of Benteler Group (2021)
  • Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. acting as sole lender in the financing of SIX Swiss Exchange listed SGS SA’s acquisition of SYNLAB Analytics & Services from SYNLAB (2021)
  • UBS Switzerland AG, Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. and Zürcher Kantonalbank on the refinancing of Arbonia AG (2020)
Practice areas
  • Financial restructuring
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Energy
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Real estate
Bar admissions
  • Switzerland
Association memberships
  • Member of the editorial board of a legal periodical on corporate and capital markets law GesKR (Zeitschrift für Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht)
  • Zurich Bar Association
Academic qualifications
  • Admitted to the Bar, Rechtsanwalt (2013)
  • Kent College of Law Chicago, LL.M. in International Financial Services Law (2013)
  • University of Zurich, lic.iur. (2010)
Address:
Zurich
Tel:+41 58 800 8393 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.nkf.ch/team/adrian-koller/