Corporate and Commercial Law

LALIVE provides a wide range of services to Swiss and foreign clients in commercial and corporate law matters, including: 

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Strategic alliances
  • Joint ventures
  • Venture capital
  • Private equity
  • Management buy-outs and management buy-ins
  • Restructurings
  • Start-ups and spin-offs
  • Public private partnerships
  • Licensing and concessions
  • Agency and distribution
  • Franchising
  • Projects development
  • Privatisation
  • Public procurement
  • Corporate governance
  • Technology transfers
  • International sales and auctions
  • International economic law

The firm has a very strong practice in international commercial contracts. It provides advice and assistance to establish, develop or amend complex contractual structures, including joint ventures, which require careful analysis, creative solutions and review of voluminous documentation. Services include advice on related questions such as taxation and anti-trust issues.

 

With respect to mergers and acquisitions, the firm's services include not only transaction structuring, but also due diligence activities, advisory services on legal risk management, warranties, competition law, labour law, intellectual property and other regulatory issues.

 

LALIVE also has a long-standing experience in assisting foreign clients with Swiss law issues on large transactions with Swiss target companies, in cooperation with foreign counsel and advisors.

 

Selected assignments:

 

Providing advice and assistance to:

  • A private entity in relation to the setting up of a joint venture in Qatar for the creation of Qatar's first proteomics research and testing facility for protein use in healthcare
  • The third largest marketing, communications and media consultancy in the world in relation to the purchase of all the shares in the capital of a Swiss company
  • A private entity in relation to the structuring of a joint venture for long term supply of LNG from Qatar, including the negotiation, drafting and review of all the legal documents relevant to the project
  • A Qatari-based fashion company in relation to the creation, development and marketing of international brands and labels, and the design, production, distribution and sale of clothes, shoes, watches and jewellery, leather goods, handbags and accessories
  • A top international cosmetics group in relation to the acquisition of its Swiss distributor, including the due diligence and the negotiations of share purchase agreements, new employment and consultancy agreements, and new distribution and customer arrangements
  • A US medical device producing company in relation to the establishment of its European headquarters in Switzerland, including all corporate, employment and tax aspects
  • A German company, as buyer, in the acquisition of the assets of the Swiss affiliates of a U.S. biotech multinational
  • A group of minority shareholders in a large foreign industrial company in the valuation and sale of its unlisted stock to the majority shareholders (included a capital market transaction related to the company’s participation certificates listed with the SWX )
  • An international group of companies (including a Swiss subsidiary), as seller, in the sale to a large U.S. conglomerate


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