Andreas Müller

Homburger - Switzerland

Partner

Zurich
Switzerland

Rising star partner

German
English
French


Jurisdictions:

Switzerland

Practice areas:

M&A


Andreas Müller′s practice focuses on public and private mergers & acquisitions, private equity and capital markets. He also advises on matters of corporate governance and executive compensation, as well as corporate law and securities regulation. He heads the firm's Executive Compensation team, and is the chair of the editorial board of a legal periodical on corporate and capital markets law (Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht, GesKR).  Winner of the Lexology Client Choice Awards in «M&A and Governance» for 2022, 2023/24 and 2025 and winner of the Lexology European Awards as «European M&A and Governance Lawyer of the Year» in 2025.

  • Advises ABB (SIX: ABBN) on the carve-out and USD 5.375 bn sale of its robotics division to SoftBank;

  • Advised Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) on its USD 11 bn acquisition of three manufacturing sites from Novo Holdings A/S, which followed the completion of Novo Holdings' acquisition of Catalent (NYSE: CTLT);

  • Regularly advises issuers and investors on equity financings, including biotech Windward Bio on its USD 200 m Series A financing, biotech Noema on its USD 147 m Series B financing round and extension, hardtech Kandou on its USD 100 m Series E financing, insurtech wefox on its USD 55 m Series D extension funding round, as well as its Series D funding round resulting in a post-money valuation of USD 4.5bn, biotech VectivBio on all its financings; hard discounter DALI Discount on all its financings; and Novo Holdings on its investment of bio-tech Alentis, Hevolution Foundation on its investment in biotech Vandria, and General Catalyst on its financing of software company SonarSource;

  • Advised Credit Suisse (SIX: CSGN) on its merger with UBS (SIX: UBSG);

  • Advised Dufry AG (SIX: DUFN) on its cross-border strategic combination with Autogrill (BIT: AGL) and related equity and debt financings; as well as all its equity and debt financings.

  • Capital markets: Equity
  • M&A
  • Private Equity
  • Other

  • Banking
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Healthcare
  • Insurance
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  • Technology and telecommunications

  • New York Bar Association, 2012
  • Zurich Bar Association, 2010

  • LL.M., Harvard Law School, 2012
  • Dr. iur., University of Basel, 2013

  • Zurich, 2010
  • New York, 2012