Practice Areas:
Capital markets
Private equity
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
German
English
Biography
Philipp Haas is regularly involved in Switzerland’s largest corporate transactions and focuses on mergers & acquisitions, corporate defense, advice to boards and capital market transactions.
Recent matter/case highlights
- Swiss counsel to CRH plc on the EUR 1.64 billion sale of its European distribution business to private equity funds managed by Blackstone.
- Lead counsel to Actelion Ltd in its USD 30 billion takeover by Johnson & Johnson combined with the spin-off of its research and clinical development business into Idorsia Ltd.
- Advised Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. on the sale of its reinsurance subsidiaries Tokio Millennium Re AG and Tokio Millennium Re (UK) Limited to RenaissanceRe for a total consideration of approximately USD 1.5 billion.
- Advised Broadcom, Inc. on the acquisition of CA Technologies for USD 18.9 billion in cash.
- Advised the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust in its support for the board and management of Sika AG in its defense against the unsolicited takeover attempt by Saint-Gobain.
Key practice areas
- Banking
- Capital markets: Equity
- M&A
- Private equity
Bar admissions
- Switzerland
- New York
Address:
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Website:https://www.advestra.ch/en/team/Philipp_Haas.php
Uraniastrasse 9,
Zurich,8001
Switzerland
