Dr. Christian Rebell, LL.M.

Partner, Zurich

Schiffbaustrasse 2 | P.O. Box | CH-8031 Zurich | Switzerland

Schiffbaustrasse 2 | P.O. Box | CH-8031 Zurich | Switzerland
T +41 58 552 00 67
christian.rebell@mll-legal.com

Profile

Christian is a partner in MLL Legal’s Corporate and M&A team. He specialises in M&A and venture capital transactions, focusing on Swiss high-tech, deep-tech and life sciences companies. He regularly advises buyers and sellers on domestic and cross-border M&A, restructuring and venture capital transactions.

Strategic advice on buy-and-build platforms, as well as succession solutions and transactions, counts among his particular areas of expertise.

His clients include established industrial companies, buy-and-build platforms, leading international VC funds and innovative start-ups.

Christian studied in Switzerland, Germany and England. He holds a PhD from the University of Bern and an LL.M. from King’s College London. He is a bilingual native speaker of German and French, fluent in English and conversational in Spanish. He regularly publishes in his areas of expertise.

Practice Areas

Industry Groups

Real Estate

Rankings & Awards

“Excellent technical knowledge, quick grasp of a very complex issue, excellent negotiation skills, very responsive” – IFLR 1000, 2021-22
“Great availability and technical skills, and very reliable” – Legal 500 EMEA, Commercial, Corporate and M&A, 2021

Deals & Cases

Christian regularly advises on venture capital investments in Swiss deep-tech, high-tech and life sciences companies and counts several leading deep-tech VC funds among his clients, including Octopus Ventures and IQ Capital. He also advises numerous start-ups and emerging Swiss companies across industries on legal matters and business development.
He regularly advises entrepreneurs on succession planning and the sale of their companies to financial or industrial acquirers.
He advised the German publishing house Olympia-Verlag and its affiliate kicker ventures on a strategic joint venture with Ringier Sports Media Group to launch a new digital sports offering for the Swiss market centred on the renowned kicker platform – Europe’s largest sports platform.
Christian has comprehensively advised the DentaCore Group on transactional and governance matters since its inception. DentaCore is rapidly consolidating the dental market and is a leading, vertically integrated Swiss dental platform. Major recent projects include a financing transaction with Capital Transmission, an investment company within the BCGE Group.
He advised SIX-listed Julius Baer Group Ltd on its Series C investment in the digital assets banking platform SEBA Bank Ltd.
He advised the Swiss-based Lakeward Group on the sale of a portfolio of real estate assets in Berlin to CBRE Investment Management.
He advised the private sellers of ancosys GmbH, a globally leading provider of chemical analysis and metrology solutions for advanced semiconductor manufacturing, on the sale of the company to Nova Ltd, which is dual-listed on Nasdaq (NVMI) and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (NOVA).
He advised the Wienerberger Group, a global leader in smart solutions for building infrastructure, on the sale of its Swiss affiliate ZZ Wancor AG to the swisspor Group.