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Stefan Knobloch deals primarily with international and national M&A transactions, public takeovers, private equity transactions, IPOs, debt financing, corporate governance and matters relating to company, stock exchange transaction and capital market law in general. He has overseen numerous transactions in these areas. He also prepares legal opinions in matters of law on stock exchange transactions, company law, law of obligations and law on civil procedure, as well as publishing articles and lecturing at the University of Zurich in his preferred fields of activity. After having studied at the University of Zurich (lic. iur. 2002), he was admitted to the Zurich Bar (2005) and obtained a Doctor of Law at the University of Zurich (2006) (summa cum laude) in Corporate Law and Financial Restructuring Law. The venia legendi for Commercial Law and Civil Action Law was given to him in 2011 by the University of Zurich. In 2018, he was appointed as adjunct professor at the University of Zurich. The subject of his professorial thesis is about the enforcement of shareholder rights. He teaches courses at the University of Zurich and is an alternate judge at the district court of Uster (Canton of Zurich). He is Co-Chair of the Zurich Bar’s Commercial Law Practice Group. Before joining our firm, Stefan Knobloch worked for several years at a large and a mid-sized law firm in Zurich. Stefan Knobloch speaks German and English. He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.