The Pestalozzi Capital Markets practice group provides domestic and international clients with a full suite of Swiss capital markets legal advisory services.
Our expertise
Pestalozzi is considered a Swiss leader in the capital markets area. We regularly advise domestic and international companies, professional investors, start-ups and shareholders of listed companies as well as financial services providers on all aspects of Swiss capital markets law and regulation.
With our vast experience and industry knowledge, our experts deliver pragmatic advisory services for complex capital market transactions and with respect to Swiss securities law.
Pestalozzi is a recognised representative at SIX Swiss Exchange for the listing of:
- Shares (incl. participation and profit-sharing certificates)
- Bonds
- Collective investment schemes
- Derivatives
- Exchange-traded products (ETPs)
Our experience also spans litigation, investigations and enforcement proceedings against SIX Swiss Exchange and the relevant regulators concerning capital market transactions, and breaches of ongoing reporting rules, ad-hoc publicity rules and the rules on disclosures of shareholdings.
Our services
Pestalozzi acts for issuers, bookrunners, underwriters as well as trading venues and advises international clients on exchange listings and Swiss regulations. The team is well positioned to provide support on all legal, regulatory and tax matters in connection with equity and debt capital market transactions.
Equity capital markets
In the area of equity capital markets, we advise on complex Swiss and international equity offerings including equity and equity-related transactions. Our key competences include:
- Structuring and implementation of rights offerings and other forms of equity capital raises by issuers (Swiss or foreign)
- Initial public offerings (IPOs)
- PIPEs and other private placements of listed equity and equity-linked instruments (including convertible and exchangeable notes)
- Other transactions (including de-SPACs)
Further, Pestalozzi has experts who are recognised representatives at SIX Swiss Exchange and who advise our clients on all aspects of stock and securities law.
Stock and securities law has seen an increase in regulations in the past years and we are experienced in advising on:
- Ongoing reporting obligations and ad-hoc publicity
- The disclosure of shareholdings and management transactions
- Corporate governance (including executive compensation and benefits)
- Market abuse such as insider trading and market manipulation
- Admission of new issues and products for listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange, BX Swiss and other regulated trading venues
Debt capital markets
We provide legal, regulatory and tax advice on the full range of debt-related capital markets products and issues, including:
- Bond issuances of all kinds, including high-yield bonds, convertible bonds, exchangeable bonds and hybrid bonds
- Filing and listing of products
- Covered bonds, asset backed securities and securitisation, synthetic risk transfer
- Debt issuance programs, such as EMTNs and debt-related structured products
- Derivative transactions and hybrid transactions
- Structured products
- Crypto assets and blockchain-based products
- Trade in securities in general
- Compliance of capital markets transactions
- Advice in cross-border offerings
- Setting up and providing ongoing regulatory advice on trading venues including MTFs, OTFs, as well as advice on access of foreign trading venues to Swiss market participants
Contacts
Team Members

Ludivine Boisard
Partner

Petra Hanselmann
Partner

Andrea Huber
Partner

Franz J. Kessler
Partner

Urs Kloeti
Partner

Christoph Lang
Partner

Christian Leuenberger
Partner

Pascal Richard
Partner

Severin Roelli
Partner

Sébastien Roy
Partner

Franz Schubiger
Partner

Beat Schwarz
Partner

Jonas Sigrist
Partner

Oliver Widmer
Partner

Robert Furter
Senior Counsel

Jakob Hoehn
Senior Counsel

Christoph Ramstein
Senior Counsel

Jean-Baptiste Lhôte
Senior Associate

Florian Schnyder
Senior Associate

Hannes F. Baumgartner
Associate

Mercedes Chiabotti
Associate

Manu Ferro
Associate

Niku Gholamalizadeh
Associate

Catherine Hörr
Associate

Frédéric Moioli
Associate

Julia Ramseyer
Associate

Raphael Widmer
Associate

Samir Ainouz
Junior Associate

Ascension Lozano
Paralegal

Manuela Morel
Paralegal

Philipp Wehrli
Paralegal

Kern Alexander
Of Counsel