Practice Expertise

  • Corporate Finance & Capital Markets
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Financial Products
  • Financial Services

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate Finance & Capital Markets
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Financial Products
  • Financial Services
  • Banking, Finance & Insurance
  • Corporate / M&A
  • Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • Industry & Commerce
  • Insolvency & Restructuring
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity & Funds
  • Private Equity & Venture Capital
  • Private Equity & Venture Capital
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate & Construction
  • Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Start-ups & Venture Capital
  • View More

Profile

Luc Defferrard, partner with Walder Wyss since 2001, has been active in the finance and legal industry for many years. He mainly advises clients in domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, financing, restructuring as well as in real estate and capital market. Luc Defferrard particularly focuses on private equity and venture capital transactions. He is regularly recommended by Chambers, Legal500 and IFLR1000. Chambers Europe describes him as "always available" and "very strong negotiator"

Prior to joining Walder Wyss, Luc Defferrard was working for seven years with UBS in Geneva, Zurich and New York as client manager and project manager in corporate and structured finance. In this position he developed the bank"s structured finance offerings to clients in the French part of Switzerland.

Luc Defferrard speaks French, German and English. He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.

Bar Admissions
He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.

Areas of Practice

  • Corporate Finance & Capital Markets
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Financial Products
  • Financial Services
  • Banking, Finance & Insurance
  • Corporate / M&A
  • Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • Industry & Commerce
  • Insolvency & Restructuring
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity & Funds
  • Private Equity & Venture Capital
  • Private Equity & Venture Capital
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate & Construction
  • Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Start-ups & Venture Capital

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments

Credit Mutuel Equity invests in somnOO to expand their hotel portfolio

Rayner acquires This AG

Vandria announces $20.6M Series A Financing led by ND Capital to drive CNS Clinical Program and Mitochondrial Therapeutics Platform

Cendres+Métaux Group acquires Lauener & Cie SA

IFLR 1000 Rankings - Walder Wyss as a top-performing law firm ranked

H55 Series C financing round

UBS Switzerland AG - syndicated credit facilities for Groupe Baume SA

CABB group – EUR 670 million senior secured floating rate notes and 8.75% senior secured fixed rate notes due 2028 and new EUR 110 million revolving credit facility

UBS Switzerland AG – CHF 1.4 billion multicurrency syndicated revolving credit facility for Maus Frères SA

Verkauf der Compotech AG

Hakan Koç and Pyrros Koussios complete acquisition of eSIM and compliance technology leader Truphone

RTX Ventures invests in H55

Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. - Financing of Unlimitrust Campus

Galapagos übernimmt CellPoint

Sale by XS Participations of its Investment in Twelve Capital

Forterro erwirbt myfactory, Anbieter von ERP-Softwarelösungen

Rakuten sold its minority stake in getAbstract

Sale of Projectina to Heligan Group

Novartis übernimmt Arctos Medical

MBO der Schweizerische Treuhandgesellschaft AG, Basel

Groupe Mutuel vor Übernahme der Vorsorgetätigkeiten von Swiss Risk & Care

Groupe Mutuel erwirbt Mehrheitsbeteiligung am Versicherungsberater Neosana

Crédit Mutuel Equity (Schweiz) investiert in die aventron AG

Castleton closes credit facilities totaling USD 2.775 Billion

CIC Capital unterstützt die Schweizer MEGA-Gruppe in einer neuen Entwicklungsphase

Nestlé S.A. acquires majority stake in Terrafertil

Dynatrace erwirbt Qumram

Zusammenschluss von Defferrard & Lanz und MoneyPark

Castleton erhält Kreditrahmen in Höhe von insgesamt 3,6 Mrd. USD

Bregal Unternehmerkapital neuer Wachstumspartner von Embassy Jewel AG

Strategische Partnerschaft zwischen Sanofi und Lonza

Keytrade Bank SA fusioniert mit Arkéa Direct Bank SA

Givaudan SA erwirbt Activ International

Unigestion kauft Akina und kreiert damit einen Marktführer im Bereich von Small- und Mid-Market-Private Equity mit einem verwalteten Vermögen von über USD 6 Mrd

Inaugurationsseminar des Interessenverbands LMA am 7. Februar 2017 in Zürich

Generationenwechsel bei Lunchgate

Rakuten erwirbt Minderheitsbeteiligung an der getAbstract AG

Castleton closes refinancing facility

Merger bei myfactory Software Schweiz

Chequers Capital to acquire Spandex from Gilde Buy Out Partners

Castleton aquires Morgan Stanley's Global Oil Merchanting business

Castleton aquires Morgan Stanley's Global Oil Merchanting business

Verkauf von Steigenberger Hotel Gstaad

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa to acquire Keytrade Bank

Knip AG vollzieht grösste Fintech Finanzierungsrunde der Schweiz

Kauf und Refinanzierung der Boost Holding AG

Schaeffler begibt high yield bonds

L’Oréal erwirbt Decléor und Carita von Shiseido

HgCapital erwirbt 91.85% an P&I Personal & Informatik AG und lanciert öffentliches Übernahmeangebot

IFLR Europe Awards 2013 – Shortlisted for

Attolight SA hat eine erneute Finanzierungsrunde abgeschlossen

Walder Wyss advises Schaeffler AG with regard to a credit agreement and the public placement of high-yield bonds

Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd. acquires APAG Holding AG

First Swiss Auto Lease Securitisation Transaction

Nuance Communications übernimmt SVOX





Articles


Liberales Arbeitsrecht
New Swiss Insolvency Rules and Lender’s Rights Pre-Insolvency
Corporate Client Event
Venture capital investment in Switzerland: market and regulatory overview
Venture capital investment in Switzerland: market and regulatory overview
Venture capital investment in Switzerland: market and regulatory overview
2014: a very good year
Schweiz – Implementierung der «Abzocker-Initiative»: Neue Corporate Governance Regeln für Schweizer Aktiengesellschaften
Venture capital investment in Switzerland: market and regulatory overview
Schweiz – Gesellschaftliche Aspekte und steuerrechtliche Konsequenzen in Bezug auf die Gründung einer Holding Gesellschaft in der Schweiz
Schweiz – Anwendungsbereich des Übernahmerechts
Schweiz – Sitzverlegungen in die Schweiz aus gesellschaftsrechtlicher und steuerlicher Sicht
Schweiz – Ausschluss von Minderheitsaktionären aus kotierten Gesellschaften
Entwicklungen im regulatorischen Umfeld für Vermögensverwalter von alternativen Anlagen
Consolidation dans la gestion de fortune
Erhebliche Revision des Schweizer Übernahmerechts
Schweiz – Entwicklungen im schweizerischen Übernahmerecht
Schweizerisches Übernahmerecht – Entwicklungen im Jahr 2007
Schweiz – Erfahrungen mit dem Fusionsgesetz
Mitarbeiterbeteiligungspläne
Neue Entwicklungen in der Finanzierung von Swiss Assets

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