Get to know Lorenzo Olgiati
Lorenzo Olgiati is a partner in our Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Zurich. He regularly advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, private equity and venture capital, securities regulation, and corporate law. His corporate practice includes international joint ventures, corporate governance, directors’ and officers’ liability, as well as corporate structuring and restructurings. Among his clients are Swiss and international institutional investors as well as publicly listed and closely held companies, including multinational groups of companies.
A graduate of the University of Zurich in 1989, where he also received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1995, Lorenzo Olgiati was admitted to the Swiss bar in 1996 and went on to earn a Master of Laws with distinction from Georgetown University, Washington D.C., in 1997. He joined our firm in 1998 and became a partner in 2003. Previously, he had worked as a foreign associate with an international law firm in New York and as a research and teaching assistant with Prof. Dr. Peter Forstmoser, chair of Corporate, Capital Markets and Commercial Law at the University of Zurich.
Lorenzo Olgiati has authored various publications on mergers & acquisitions, public takeovers and corporate law and has also been a lecturer at the University of Zurich in business law.