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Roman Sturzenegger

Niederer Kraft Frey

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Rising star
Bar Admissions:
Switzerland
Practice Areas:
Restructuring and insolvency
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
German
English
Biography

Roman Sturzenegger advises domestic and international clients on corporate law and corporate governance, complex corporate reorganisation, insolvency and restructuring, domestic and cross-border M&A transactions (including private equity, venture capital and distressed M&A transactions), corporate financing and general commercial law. He represents clients in corporate and commercial disputes.

Recent transactional highlights
  • EPIC Suisse AG on its CHF 196 million initial public offering on SIX Swiss Exchange
  • gategroup as Swiss legal counsel in connection with the restructuring, the interim liquidity financing, and the refinancing covering corporate, finance and insolvency law aspects with the project leading to a land mark decision by an English Court on the legal qualification of a restructuring plan (qualified as insolvency matter) with the English Court accepting jurisdiction to allow the involved stakeholders to amend the terms of the Swiss law governed bonds
  • Swiss Steel Holding in a contested CHF 247m capital increase
Practice areas
  • Corporate / M&A
  • Commercial
  • Dispute Resolution
Bar admissions
  • Switzerland
Association memberships
  • IBA International Bar Association
  • AIJA Association International des Jeunes Avocats
  • INSOL Europe
  • SchKG-Vereinigung, Vereinigung für Schuldbetreibungs- und Konkursrecht
Academic qualifications
  • University of Manchester, LL.M. in Corporate Governance, 2015
  • University of Fribourg, MLaw, 2007
  • University of Fribourg, BLaw, 2006
Address:
Zurich
Tel:+41 58 800 83 57 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.nkf.ch/lawyers/roman-sturzenegger/