Balthasar Wicki

Attorney at Law, EMBA (UZH), Business Mediator, CM&AA | Partner

As a business lawyer and internationally experienced industrial executive, Balthasar Wicki's experience in mastering phases of growth, crisis and change is based equally on his practical leadership experience and specialised expertise. Entrepreneurs and companies appreciate his broad-based business approach, his ability to understand complex economic contexts, his willingness to take responsibility and his high availability.

After qualifying as a lawyer in 1993, Balthasar Wicki worked as corporate legal counsel for a major industrial group and then took on senior market development roles in India, China and Southeast Asia for several major industrial companies. Back from Asia in 2003, Balthasar Wicki was responsible for the successful repositioning of a large Swiss NGO/NPO and then, now as CEO and co-investor, led a global industrial company in the private equity environment through an existential crisis. Since 2008, Balthasar Wicki has again worked as a corporate and commercial lawyer.

Areas of activity

Complex corporate and contractual advisory mandates and disputes, also in the international corporate and technology environment
Crisis management, debt restructuring proceedings, reorganizations, refinancing and restructurings
M&A on both the buyer and seller side, as well as escrow mandates
Highly escalated corporate and entrepreneurial disputes and conflicts
Alternative organizational and management models (sociocracy, holacracy, steward-ownership, etc.)
Structuring, development and management of NGOs/NPOs
Venture capital financing, including PE/VC financing, for start-ups and cross-border companies
Accounting law and balance sheet issues
Delegated and independent directorships and board memberships

Work experience

Independent lawyer since 2008
Many years of legal counsel and line management tasks in internationally operating industrial companies, especially in Asia (India, China, SE-Asia, Australia) and NME
CEO functions in Switzerland in an industrial environment and at a major NPO/NGO
Strategy and management consultant

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