Homburger advised Credit Suisse on various aspects in connection with the merger of Credit Suisse with UBS

On March 19, 2023, Credit Suisse announced that Credit Suisse and UBS have entered into a merger agreement following the intervention of the Swiss Federal Department of Finance, the Swiss National Bank and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA. UBS will be the surviving entity upon closing of the merger transaction. Homburger advised Credit Suisse on boardroom matters, contingency planning, transactional options, bank regulatory and corporate law aspects in connection with the various measures to support its liquidity situation and the merger of Credit Suisse with UBS.

The Homburger team was led by Daniel Daeniker (Corporate / M&A), Benjamin Leisinger (Capital Markets and Financial Market Regulation) and Claude Lambert (Corporate / M&A), and included Dieter Gericke, Andreas Müller (both Corporate / M&A), Flavio Romerio (Crisis Management), Hansjürg Appenzeller (Corporate / M&A), Richard Stäuber (Competition), as well as associates Alexander Wherlock, Vanessa Isler, Daniel Hulmann, Manuel Baschung and Sofiya Shavlak (all Financial Market Regulation) and Magda Aref (Corporate / M&A).