Signed, Sealed, Weekend – July 4th

This is our weekly inside track into the Swiss legal market!

Check out the news of the week:

· Wenger Vieli appoints a new management trio. Bruno Bächli becomes the firm’s new Managing Partner, succeeding Pascal Honold, who will remain a member of the management team. Beat Speck, a member of the management team from 2020 to 2025 who, during that period, also covered the position of managing partner, steps down and leaves space for new addition Michael Tschudin.

· Cécile Zumstein becomes Altenburger Ltd legal + tax’s new counsel, as of the firm’s latest promotion round. Alongside Zumstein, Syolene Fenaroli and Naomi Carrel have been promoted to a senior associate position.

· Lenz & Staehelin advising Climeworks through closing of its financing round, which raised equity of USD 162 million and represented the largest carbon removal investment of 2025 to date globally.