Contract Law

Services include:

  • Reviewing, drafting, negotiating of complex agreements and agreement systems as well as standard contracts/terms and conditions considering related areas of law.
  • Drawing up of after signing and closing compliance structures.
  • Implementation and execution of monitoring schemes including the management of internal controls frameworks and performance management measurement schemes related to outsourced services regarding all types of agreements.
  • Designing of new types of agreements.
  • Advising and/or coordinating all kinds of parties and stakeholders such as authorities, shareholders, members of the board of directors and senior management as well as tax consultants, auditors and other experts and considering input from and requirements of various perspectives also in an international context.
You are an excellent lawyer. This project was huge.
Global Head Legal Division Textile Effects Huntsman, Basel, after the re-engineering/re-structuring of major service contracts for the supply of all material, in particular security- and energy-related services with a contractual volume of several CHF 100 million
Huntsman has a ‘tour de force’ legal representative with you.
Outside Counsel of a contract partner during negotiations of a major new telecoms services agreement
It’s a pity that you leave Huntsman. On behalf of all members of the management team I would like to thank you for the fine collaboration.
CEO of a large global service provider

Illustrative selection of reference agreements, competencies and achievements include:

Innovations, (further) development of new legal practices/standards
  • Developing of various new or tailormade contract types and contract systems, e.g.
    • Revolving multi-currency credit facilities agreement between two joint venture partners in view of the financing of a joint venture company,
    • ad hoc agreement on the transfer of landownership rights with origins dating back to the early 20th century and without prior registration in a land register impacting industrial facilities,
    • complex agreement system relating to a long-term (potential) staged takeover of a jointly managed company.
Agreements (in alphabetical order) include:
  • Agency agreements
  • Barter agreements
  • Brokerage agreements
  • All types of capital markets transactions related contracts with financial institutions, banks, insurance companies, shareholders, auditors, other advisors and service providers
  • Closing agreement
  • Commission
  • Confidentiality agreements
  • Contributions in kind
  • Cooperation/collaboration agreements
  • Credit agreements (including multi-currency revolving credit facilities agreements)
  • Derivatives and options agreements
  • Donation agreements
  • Executive search agreements (general terms and conditions, service level agreements for the provision of recruitment services/sourcing services agreements, (re)search agreements etc.)
  • Employment contracts (see also hereinafter the specific labor law services)
  • Escrow agreements
  • EU consortia agreements
  • General partnership agreements
  • General terms of business
  • Guarantees of all types
  • Interim/transitional agreements
  • Joint venture agreements
  • Lease and sublease agreements (including large agreements regarding industrial facilities)
  • Lending and loan agreements
  • Letters of credit and credit orders
  • Letter of intent
  • Loans
  • Lock up agreements
  • Mandate agreements (including administration, management, cost sharing, services consultancy, asset management agreements)
  • Marketing agreements
  • Quality assurance agreements
  • Purchase agreements of all types including complex structure relating to the stepwise takeover of companies
  • Merger and spin-off agreements
  • Mortgage agreements
  • All types of agreements relating to all aspects of a business and private banking bank’s law (mandates and other business relationships, contracts of deposit, all kinds of credits and loans, surety agreements, documentary credits, documentary collections, guarantees, payment transactions, securities, derivatives, options, safe deposit boxes, foreign exchange business etc.)
  • Purchase agreements of all types (incl. large supply agreements regarding chemical substances).
  • Transfer of ownership (or other rights in rem) in real property and in other objects, claims and rights of all kind
  • Rehabilitation agreements
  • Rental agreements
  • (Frame) services and service level agreements (IT, telecoms, safety- and energy-related contracts:
    Restructured complex, long-term safety- and energy-related contracts (contract volume of CHF 35 million/year, 7-year contracts): Multi-party negotiations taking into account different cultures of negotiation of negotiation partners of different nationalities
  • Share deposit agreements
  • Shareholders’ agreements
  • Simple partnership agreements
  • Supply agreements (including for highly regulated products such as chemicals)
  • Teaching agreements and general terms and conditions
  • Toll manufacturing agreements
  • Trust/fiduciary agreements
  • Underwriting agreements
  • Usufructuary lease agreements
  • Work contracts
  • etc.