Urs Brügger

Partner
Experience

Urs Brügger's main areas of practice are financial market regulations, banking and corporate finance as well as transactional services, including public and private M&A and equity capital market transactions.

Urs Brügger has extensive experience in advising Swiss public companies in disclosure and reporting obligations and financial intermediaries in all kind of regulatory matters. He frequently represents listed companies, financial intermedi-aries and investors in regulatory enforcement proceedings. He also advised the board of directors of several listed companies in their takeover defenses, and assisted companies and underwriters in equity capital market transactions, including a Cantonal government in the privatization of a Cantonal Bank.

Urs Brügger has broad-ranging abilities across all areas of banking and securities regulation (The Legal 500, 2013). "He is very practical and thinks ahead strategical-ly," reports a satisfied client (Champers Global 2013). Urs Brügger specializes in equity capital market transactions and "consistently turns out top quality work" (Who's Who Legal 2013).

Curriculum
  • Partner of Bär & Karrer (since 2000)
  • SIX Swiss Exchange: Member of the Management Committee and Head of Listing (1989-1997)
  • Stanford Business School: Executive Programme (1996)
  • Admitted to the Zurich Bar (1987)
  • University of Zurich: lic. iur. (1983)
Memberships and Public Offices
  • Recognized representative for the listing of securities at the SIX Swiss Exchange
  • Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
  • Member of NIRI National Investor Relations Institute
Admission
  • All Swiss Courts
 
Contact Details
Urs Brügger
Bär & Karrer AG
Brandschenkestrasse 90
CH-8027 Zurich
Switzerland
T: +41 58 261 50 00
F: +41 58 261 50 01
urs.bruegger@baerkarrer.ch
Assistant
Tina Dössegger
T: +41 58 261 53 71
F: +41 58 261 50 01
tina.doessegger@baerkarrer.ch
 
 
 
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