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Dr Kaspar Landolt, LL.M.

Partner
Head of Banking & Finance Team

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Dr Kaspar Landolt, LL.M.

Partner
Head of Banking & Finance Team

Contact
CMS von Erlach Partners Ltd
Räffelstrasse 26
P.O. Box
8022 Zurich
Switzerland
Languages German, English, French

Kaspar Landolt focuses on banking & finance, capital markets and corporate law.

He has more than twenty years of experience in acquisition finance, corporate lending, real estate finance, project finance and asset finance, the issuance and offering of financial instruments, applying for regulatory licenses and other capital market topics as well as restructuring. Other key competencies of Kaspar include insurance, collective investment schemes as well as M&A and corporate law.

Kaspar Landolt regularly advises Swiss and international financial institutions, asset managers, industrial enterprises, trading houses and other companies on their transactions and regulatory matters and represents clients before the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA and other authorities. He is an authorized issuers' representative at the SIX Swiss Exchange. Before joining CMS in 1994, he worked as associate with leading law firms in Detroit and Zurich and clerked at the district court of Meilen, Zurich. Since 2000 he is a partner.

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A client enthuses: "Kaspar Landolt is a very knowledgeable and experienced lawyer when it comes to regulatory matters in the financial payment area and dealing with the respective authorities."

Chambers Global Guide, Switzerland, Banking & Finance 2022

Kaspar Landolt is "very good at closing complex transactions on tight deadlines."

Chambers Global Guide, Switzerland, Banking & Finance 2021

'excellent, very commercial and practical.'

Chambers Global Guide, Switzerland, Banking & Finance 2020

'very responsive and solution-orientated.'

Chambers Global Guide, Switzerland, Banking & Finance 2020

'Kaspar Landolt is greatly appreciated for being able to explain and outline complex topics in a simple language.'

The Legal 500, Banking and Finance: Zurich, Switzerland, 2020

'I like the way Dr. Kaspar interacts. He provides well timed responses and quality feedback.'

IFLR1000, Switzerland, 2020

'Kaspar provides very professional and client focused advices.'

IFLR1000, Switzerland, 2020

'Kaspar is very easy to approach and is normally quick to respond. He provides clear and structured advice and keeps an eye on quoted costs.'

IFLR1000, Switzerland, 2020

A client enthuses: "Kaspar Landolt is a very knowledgeable and experienced lawyer when it comes to regulatory matters in the financial payment area and dealing with the respective authorities."

Chambers Global Guide, Switzerland, Banking & Finance 2022

Kaspar Landolt is "very good at closing complex transactions on tight deadlines."

Chambers Global Guide, Switzerland, Banking & Finance 2021

'excellent, very commercial and practical.'

Chambers Global Guide, Switzerland, Banking & Finance 2020

'very responsive and solution-orientated.'

Chambers Global Guide, Switzerland, Banking & Finance 2020

'Kaspar Landolt is greatly appreciated for being able to explain and outline complex topics in a simple language.'

The Legal 500, Banking and Finance: Zurich, Switzerland, 2020

'I like the way Dr. Kaspar interacts. He provides well timed responses and quality feedback.'

IFLR1000, Switzerland, 2020

'Kaspar provides very professional and client focused advices.'

IFLR1000, Switzerland, 2020

'Kaspar is very easy to approach and is normally quick to respond. He provides clear and structured advice and keeps an eye on quoted costs.'

IFLR1000, Switzerland, 2020

Relevant experience

  • Leading German bank on EUR 192m/CHF 33m real estate secured acquisition finance of premier brand hotel companies.
  • Swiss IT entrepreneur on sale of his company to German private equity investors.
  • Major US conglomerate on Swiss capital market aspects of its historic, multi-billion dollar steps to transform its portfolio.
  • Leading German, Luxembourg, Dutch, French and Japanese banks on syndicated EUR 1,18bn asset financing of rolling stock.
  • Swiss entrepreneurs on sale of their industrial group of companies to an Italian private equity firm.
  • Major US insurer in relation to the reorganisation of its worldwide non-US business.
  • US securities dealer on obtaining representative office license from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA.
  • US headquartered industrial technology leader on selling part of its Swiss industrial activities to large privately held industrial group.
  • Well-known US and UK asset managers on Swiss regulatory, corporate and commercial law.
  • Well-known Swiss reinsurer on reorganisation of its Swiss, German and French activities.
  • Major Italian and Dutch banks in relation to a USD 100m financing of a major agribusiness.
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Memberships & Roles

  • Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV)
  • International Bar Association
  • Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce
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Publications

  • Basle Commentary Anti-Money Laundering Act, commentary on article 3, December 2021 (together with Dominique Gemperli)
  • The Securities Litigation Review – Edition 5 for Switzerland, The Law Reviews, July 2019 (together with Jodok Wicki and Dominique Gemperli)
  • The Securities Litigation Review – Edition 4 for Switzerland, The Law Reviews, July 2018 (together with Jodok Wicki, Dominique Gemperli and Susanna Gut)
  • Contribution in CMS e-guide to Aircraft Finance and Leasing, Switzerland, April 2018
  • Contribution in CMS e-guide to Real Estate Finance, Switzerland, 2018
  • BEAT KLEINER/KASPAR LANDOLT/DOMINIQUE GEMPERLI, Bankgarantie – Die Garantie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Bankgarantiegeschäfts, 5th edition, Zurich 2016
  • Cross-border business of Swiss banks in Germany, 11/2011
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Lectures list

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Education

  • 1994 - Master of Laws, LL.M., University of Michigan (USA)
  • 1992 - Thesis, Dr. iur., magna cum laude, University of Zurich
  • 1991 - Bar Admission, Canton of Zurich
  • 1989 - Lic. iur., magna cum laude, University of Zurich
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Expertise

23/03/2020
Emer­gency aid for Swiss firms in re­sponse to COV­ID-19 – an over­view
Be­cause meas­ures by Switzer­land's Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to curb the out­break of COV­ID-19 through the pas­sage of "COV­ID-19 Or­din­ance 2" sub­stan­tially af­fected sev­er­al in­dustry sec­tors, the Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment...
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11/04/2022
CMS Switzer­land re­cog­nised by The Leg­al 500
Rank­ings of CMS Switzer­land in The Leg­al 500 EMEA 2022 edi­tion
News
03/2022
CMS Switzer­land re­com­men­ded in the Cham­bers Europe Guide 2022
Cham­bers and Part­ners has pub­lished its rank­ings of Europe's lead­ing law firms and law­yers in the Europe Guide 2022. Our firm and our law­yers are lis­ted in both rank­ings for Switzer­land.
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20/01/2022
CMS Switzer­land ranked in Cham­bers Glob­al Guide 2022
Cham­bers and Part­ners has pub­lished its rank­ings of the world's lead­ing law firms and law­yers in the Glob­al Guide 2022. Our firm is again lis­ted in both rank­ings for Switzer­land.
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01/07/2021
The Power of Two: FinTech & Block­chain and Bank­ing & Fin­ance
Geneva | 1 Septem­ber 2021me­di­um Dr Vaïk Müller has joined our law firm as a new part­ner to fur­ther de­vel­op our ex­pert­ise in Bank­ing & Fin­ance as well as FinTech & Block­chain. Dr Vaïk Müller­'s main areas of ex­pert­ise are bank­ing and fin­ance, fin­an­cial ser­vices and products, in­clud­ing funds and de­riv­at­ives, as well as com­pli­ance and reg­u­lat­ory mat­ters.READ MORE­OR WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
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11/06/2021
New Swiss Mar­ket­ing Rules
Vir­tu­al Meet­ing with US Law Firm, 7 June 2021 Dr Kas­par Landolt, head of the Bank­ing & Fin­ance team of CMS Switzer­land, presen­ted the new Swiss mar­ket­ing rules to the in­vest­ment funds group of a lead­ing...
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14/04/2021
CMS Switzer­land ranked by The Leg­al 500
Rank­ings of CMS Switzer­land in The Leg­al 500 EMEA 2021 edi­tion CMS Switzer­land is re­com­men­ded in 18 cat­egor­ies in this year's Europe, Middle East and Africa edi­tion of The Leg­al 500, pub­lished in April...
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18/03/2021
CMS Switzer­land ranked in Cham­bers and Part­ners Europe Guide 2021
We are de­lighted to an­nounce that 13 of our law­yers across 9 prac­tice areas are re­com­men­ded in the Cham­bers and Part­ners Europe Guide 2021. The fol­low­ing law­yers from our of­fices in Zurich and Geneva...
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18/02/2021
CMS Switzer­land ranked in Cham­bers Glob­al Guide 2021
Cham­bers and Part­ners has pub­lished its rank­ings of the world's lead­ing law firms and law­yers in its Glob­al Guide 2021. Our firm is re­cog­nised in the Switzer­land law firm and in­di­vidu­al law­yer rank­ings...
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02/07/2020
CMS ad­vises capiton/Cym­biQ on the ac­quis­i­tion of As­pec­tra AG
Cym­biQ Group AG, a port­fo­lio com­pany of Ger­many private equity in­vestor capiton, has ac­quired As­pec­tra AG, Zurich.As­pec­tra AG spe­cial­ises on man­aged host­ing ser­vices for crit­ic­al ap­plic­a­tions and of­fers...
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15/04/2020
New rank­ings from "The Leg­al 500" for CMS Switzer­land
New rank­ings from "The Leg­al 500" for CMS Switzer­land CMS Switzer­land is be­ing re­com­men­ded in 16 cat­egor­ies in this year's edi­tion of The Leg­al 500, pub­lished in April 2020. We are par­tic­u­larly pleased...
News
23/03/2020
Emer­gency aid for Swiss firms in re­sponse to COV­ID-19 – an over­view
Be­cause meas­ures by Switzer­land's Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to curb the out­break of COV­ID-19 through the pas­sage of "COV­ID-19 Or­din­ance 2" sub­stan­tially af­fected sev­er­al in­dustry sec­tors, the Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment...
Publication
12/03/2020
Top-Rank­ings for CMS Switzer­land by Cham­bers and Part­ners
Top rank­ings for CMS Switzer­land by Cham­bers and Part­ners CMS Switzer­land is de­lighted to an­nounce that 14 law­yers across 10 prac­tice areas have been re­com­men­ded in the 2020 edi­tion of Cham­bers and...
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