Christoph Vonlanthen

Christoph Vonlanthen is a corporate partner in our Geneva and Zurich offices and the head of our Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate & Commercial groups in Geneva. Christoph is a specialist in mergers & acquisitions, growth equity, corporate governance, and capital markets.

Christoph has vast experience accumulated in Switzerland, London and New York in market-leading transactions, including buyouts, divestitures, mergers, spin-offs, exchange offers, carve-outs, rights offerings, IPOs, distressed M&A and restructurings in a range of industries.

He regularly advises strategics, financial sponsors and investment banks on complex cross-border and domestic assignments, as well as boards of directors on corporate governance, including disclosure issues and activism.

Christoph also assists fund managers and institutional investors on structured investments, co-investments and secondary sale transactions.

• The carve-out acquisition of retail industry leader Conforama and its subsequent two-step divestiture to XXXLutz with Swiss merger control clearance
• The cross-border sale of sustainability consultancy leader Quantis International SA to The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.
• The leveraged and management buy-out of leading brokerage Credaris AG from Comparis and multiple subsequent add-on acquisitions
• Credit Suisse on its exit from SSA wealth management markets to Barclays
• A shipping company in its spin-merge transaction to create one of the largest publicly traded tanker companies worldwide
• A publicly traded real estate company in its £1.5 billion all-share merger
• A pharma company in its $3.5 billion private acquisition of a generic drug manufacturer
• Swisscanto Private Equity on its investment as lead investor in the Series B financing of Zurich-based Distran
• Blue Pool Capital on its investment as lead investor in the Series F financing of Zurich- and Berlin-based GetYourGuide
• Credit Suisse on its strategic partnership with digital asset infrastructure leader Taurus and investment as lead investor in Taurus's series B financing round
• OTB Ventures on its investment as lead investor in the Series A financing of ClearSpace
• RTX Ventures on its strategic minority investment in H55 SA
• REYL on Varia Europe Properties' at-the-market rights offering of 2,166,161 shares
• SIX-listed OC Oerlikon in its offerings of CHF  340 million investment grade dual-tranche senior unsecured bonds and CHF 575 million investment grade three series of unsecured bonds
• One of the largest publicly traded European investment holding companies on its global IPO and subsequent bond offering
• An oil and gas group in its more than $3 billion high grade debt offerings
• A global full-service bank in its $15 billion discounted rights offering

• Authorized representative at SIX Swiss Exchange

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate & Commercial
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Life Sciences
• Capital Markets
• Banking & Finance
• ESG