Bio

Philipp Haas is regularly involved in Switzerland’s largest corporate transactions and focuses on mergers & acquisitions, corporate defense, advice to boards and capital market transactions. Philipp Haas is an expert in negotiated as well as hostile acquisitions. He has represented bidders and targets, public and private companies, private equity firms, leveraged acquirers and special committees of directors. He represents companies in divestitures, cross-border transactions and proxy contests, and has counseled managements and boards of directors on acquisition matters, responses to shareholder activism, conflict transactions, corporate governance and other significant issues. The NKF team led by Philipp received the Transatlantic M&A Team of the Year (Large Deal) Award in the 2018 Transatlantic Legal Awards by the American Lawyer and Legal Week for its role as lead advisor to Actelion Ltd in the USD 30 bn acquisition by Johnson & Johnson.