Portrait

Severin Roelli is a partner and member of Pestalozzi’s Corporate/M&A group in Zurich. He has advised both foreign and domestic clients on private and public M&A transactions, acquisition finance, capital market, securities and stock exchange law, corporate reorganizations, joint venture and general corporate law. He is an authorized issuer’s representative at the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Severin Roelli graduated from the University of Zurich in 1998 (lic.iur.) and from the Columbia University School of Law, New York in 2002 (LL.M., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar). He was admitted to the bar in 2000 and joined Pestalozzi in 2002. Severin Roelli is President of the Corporate Acquisition and Joint Ventures Commission of AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers) and member of several professional associations. His professional languages are German and English.

Publications (download PDF list )

01.03.2012 / Unzulässigkeit konkurrierender Teilangebote im schweizerischen Übernahmerecht
Detail Unzulässigkeit konkurrierender Teilangebote im schweizerischen Übernahmerecht, AJP 3, 2012, S. 370ff.

02.05.2011 / Proceedings Regarding the Duty to Launch an Offer
Detail Proceedings Regarding the Duty to Launch an Offer: Exemption From the (Potential) Target's Duty to Issue and Publish a Board Report, CapLaw-2011-44 (https://caplaw.swisslex.ch)

03.01.2011 / Öffentliche Übernahmen
Detail Öffentliche Übernahmen, Basel 2011 (http://www.helbing.ch)

03.05.2010 / Audit Supervision over Foreign Auditing Firms that Provide Auditing Services for Foreign Companies that are Listed at a Swiss Stock Exchange
Detail Audit Supervision over Foreign Auditing Firms that Provide Auditing Services for Foreign Companies that are Listed at a Swiss Stock Exchange, CapLaw-2010-55 (https://caplaw.swisslex.ch)

02.02.2009 / The Impact of a Shareholders' Agreement among Private Equity Investors on the Obligation to Make a Public Offer
Detail The Impact of a Shareholders' Agreement among Private Equity Investors on the Obligation to Make a Public Offer, CapLaw-2009-17 (https://caplaw.swisslex.ch)

01.09.2008 / Globalisation after liberalisation: How to become a cross-border telecoms operator
Detail Globalisation after liberalisation: How to become a cross-border telecoms operator, AIJA International Association of Young Lawyers, National Report for Switzerland, 2008

31.12.2006 / The Public Company: The burden of being public and the pain to go private
Detail The Public Company: The burden of being public and the pain to go private, AIJA International Association of Young Lawyers, National Report for Switzerland, 2007

31.12.2000 / Brauchen wir ein neues IT-Recht?
Detail Brauchen wir ein neues IT-Recht?, in: new management, die europäische Zeitschrift für Unternehmenswissenschaften und Führungspraxis, 2001, Nr. 11

contact

Severin Roelli
Partner
Loewenstrasse 1, CH-8001 Zürich
Phone (direct) +41 44 217 92 68
Phone (mobile) +41 79 411 02 60
severin.roelli(at)pestalozzilaw.com
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Expertise

Financial Services, Business Organisation & Compliance, Capital Markets, Commercial, Contracts, Corporate, Joint Ventures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Securities, Venture Capital, Banking & Finance

Languages

German, English

Admission

Switzerland 2000

Memberships

ZAV, SAV, AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers), LAWAISA, Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, Swiss-Indian Chamber of Commerce