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Stephan Werlen focuses on M&A and corporate law, joint ventures, management buy-outs, acquisition finance and venture capital transactions. He has broad experience both in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions (including auction processes), the structuring as well as the financing of such transactions. In addition, he is an expert in W&I insurance transactions (M&A insurance) with a long track record in this area. Stephan Werlen also regularly advises foreign companies on their relocation to Switzerland and assists companies in a broad variety of corporate matters (e.g. shareholders' agreements, cash pooling agreements, employee stock option plans, capital measures and other corporate housekeeping matters, advising boards of directors etc.).
Stephan Werlen joined CMS in 2003 and became a partner in 2009. He is a member of the CMS Corporate Practice Group and the CMS Private Equity Sector Group.
Stephan Werlen studied law at the University of Zurich (lic. iur., Dr. iur) and earned a post-graduate degree from University of Chicago Law School (LL.M.). Before joining us, he worked at the District Court of Zurich and wrote his thesis on the legal position of the target company in a public tender offer (Die Rechtsstellung der Zielgesellschaft im Übernahmekampf, Schweizer Schriften zum Bankrecht, Bd. 64, Zürich 2001).
Stephan Werlen is an officially admitted representative of listed companies at the SIX Swiss Exchange.
