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Claude Lambert

Homburger

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Switzerland
Practice Areas:
Corporate and M&A
Capital markets
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
German
English
Biography

Claude Lambert’s practice focuses on corporate law, corporate governance, private and public mergers & acquisitions and capital markets. He is an Authorized Issuers’ Representative at the SIX Swiss Exchange. He is experienced in a broad range of transactions, including trade sales, tender offers, IPOs, rights offerings and financings.

Recent transactional highlights

  • Acted as counsel to Metall Zug AG in respect of a new CHF 220 m syndicated, mortgage-backed revolving credit facility arranged by Zürcher Kantonalbank

    for the financing of investments in real estate developments on a former industrial site in Northern Zug, the so-called Tech Cluster Zug.

  • Advised Barnes Group Inc. on its separation into two companies, Barnes Aerospace and The Industrial Solutions Group, each with its own leadership team and capital structure.

  • Advised ABB on the carve-out and sale of its robotics division to SoftBank for an enterprise value of USD 5.375 bn.

  • Advised GAM on the carve-out of its third party fund management services to Carne Group, on the exchange offer from Liontrust and on the partial offer from Newgame

    .

  • Advised Credit Suisse on various aspects in connection with the merger of Credit Suisse with UBS.

 

Key practice areas
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • M&A
  • Private Equity
Sector specialisations

  • Banking
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Financial services
  • Industrials
  • Real estate

 

Academic qualifications
  • lic. iur., University of Zurich, (1989)
  • Dr. iur., University of Zurich, (1992)
  • LL.M., Harvard Law School, (1997)
Bar admissions

  • Swiss bar (1994)
Address:
Zurich
Switzerland
Tel:+41 43 222 15 38 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.homburger.ch/en/team/