Philipp Haas
Partner | Attorney at Law (Switzerland & New York)
T. +41 58 510 92 77 | +41 79 221 82 10
philipp.haas@advestra.ch
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Philipp is regularly involved in some of Switzerland's largest and most prominent transactions and focuses on mergers & acquisitions, private equity, corporate defense and proxy fights, advice to boards and capital markets.
- Global Blue (NYSE: GB), the leading specialty payments and technology platform, and its largest shareholder Silver Lake in GB's USD 2.5 billion acquisition by Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR)
- Global Blue, the leading specialty payment and technology platform, and its shareholder Silver Lake in its NYSE Listing merger with Far Point Acquisition Corporation, the first SPAC transaction by a Swiss entity
- Investindustrial in its SPAC transaction with Zegna Group
- Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. (Tokio Marine) on the USD 1.5 billion sale of its reinsurance subsidiaries Tokio Millennium Re AG and Tokio Millennium Re (UK) Limited to Renaissance Re
- Actelion Ltd, the largest European biopharma company in its USD 30 billion acquisition by Johnson & Johnson and the simultaneous demerger of its drug discovery and early clinical pipeline business into Idorsia Ltd. as well as the IPO of Idorsia Ltd
- INEOS on the proposed acquisition of a major concrete additives business from Sika AG
- EDF in its acquisition of GE Vernova’s steam nuclear activities and its sale of its 25% participation in Alpiq Holding AG (SIX listed) for a consideration of approximately CHF 489 million
- Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation Trust in the successful defense of Sika AG against the hostile takeover attempt by Saint-Gobain
- NASDAQ listed BioTelemetry, Inc. in its successful competing tender offer for LifeWatch AG
- GSK plc in its USD 26 billion portfolio swap with Novartis AG
- Actelion Ltd in its successful defense against the hostile takeover attempt and proxy fight by Elliott Partners
- Partner at Advestra (since 2026)
- Partner at Niederer Kraft Frey (2003 - 2026)
- Associate at Niederer Kraft Frey (1999 - 2003)
- New York School of Law: LL.M. (1995)
- University of Zurich: lic. iur. (1991)
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- Swiss Bar Association (SAV)
- German
- English