Strongly committed to understanding our clients’ business needs and ensuring their success in the environments they compete in, we provide counsel to domestic and international enterprises, private equity funds and investors, banks, alternative asset managers and other financial service providers, offering them a bespoke solution in all fields of business law.
Our core areas of practice are private equity and funds, corporate law and mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and financial services. Our practice range also covers most other fields of corporate and business law and excels by applying Swiss precision, with an international focus and Italian elegance.
We believe that our collective perspectives in sophisticated financial marketplaces, including New York, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Zurich and Brussels, and our international approach to the practice of law, make us uniquely qualified to provide effective and superior advice to our clients.
Our Private Equity and Alternative Investment Funds practice encompasses assisting international investors and domestic and foreign fund sponsors in connection with the formation and structuring of onshore and offshore investment funds, international fundraising and financing activities as well as the structuring, maintenance and disposition of portfolio investments.
In a nutshell, we assist fund sponsor clients and their portfolio companies on all aspects of their investments, from the deal structuring to the execution of the exit strategy.
During the lifetime of a fund, we closely collaborate with our clients regarding regulatory, tax, corporate, investment-, investor-, and business-related matters at all levels of a corporate structure, including co-investments activities, financing and restructuring.
Our Corporate, Business Law and M&A practice encompasses assisting our clients on strategy, the formation of investment vehicles, the structuring of acquisitions and dispositions, in connection with a wide range of domestic and cross-border deals and financing models.
We assist enterprises and financial institutions in all extraordinary corporate transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, public M&A transactions, public-to-private deals and equity financing.
Of course, we also offer to our clients counsel in connection with ongoing corporate, administrative and business matters, the structuring of governance asset, compliance with regulatory requirements, antitrust issues, domestic and cross border tax as well as employment and social security matters.
Our Corporate Finance and Financial Services practice encompasses assisting alternative asset managers, banks, other financial intermediaries, underwriters and shareholders in transactional and advisory matters.
Our expertise covers a full range of areas including international offerings, issuance of various types of equity, debt and hybrid securities, regulatory matters in relation to asset managers and financial institutions as well as cross border tax advice.
As part of our Venture Capital, Digital Assets and Innovation practice, we accompany our clients in their investment business projects, with a special focus on growth and value generation.
Joint Venture, Start-Ups and Funds
In addition to our venture capital onshore and offshore funds formation's practice, we assist investors, growing start-ups and other venture capital's players in the generation and organization of their investment ideas and activities, the raising of capitals and the structuring of their relationships with counterparts. In the realm of Fintech, we structure and consult on crypto currencies, blockchain and other digital assets, for venture capital companies as well as for incumbent financial and industrial players interested in the space.
Business practice and its sectors are always expanding and meandering into novel directions. Each new sector grows from a tentative toddler to a swaggery teenager (and, sometimes, to a confident adult).
As expert counselors, we follow this development very closely and are excited by new challenges, regardless of whether this requires a further training effort on our part.
Our office is located in Bissone, a picturesque village on the shore of Lake Lugano in Ticino, which may be reached in 10 minutes from the center of Lugano (by exiting from the A2 Highway in Melide and crossing the bridge over the lake) and approximately 50 minutes from Milan (by exiting from the A2 Highway in Bissone).
The nearest train station is Melide, approximately 2 minutes away by bus or cab.
CP-DL Leone & Partners S.A.
Via Collina 1/A
CH-6816 Bissone
tel. +41 (0)43 508 4980
Our legal and non-legal team members are recruited and rewarded based on their skills, experience and devotion to clients. We are constantly looking for new additions to our team. If you feel that our areas of practice and organizational features fit your career aspirations, please email your resumé to us (click here for our privacy policy) at:
luganocontact@cp-dl.com
Here is a small selection of our recent appearances in the specialized press and contributions to the development of international regulations:
