About Elie
Elie is our Head of Mergers and Acquisitions and leads LEXR’s Lausanne office. He advises Swiss and international founders, start-ups, companies, and investors on various M&A transactions, including sales, purchases, and mergers. Elie previously worked for over seven years with major Swiss and international law firms, specializing in M&A and commercial transactions.
Focus Areas
M&A Corporate Negotiation
Selected Track Record
- Advised on the sale of Edsi-Tech, a B2B tourism management platform, to General Media.
- Advised on the sale of a majority stake in PixelPlus, a Swiss software development company, to TTMS.
- Advised on the sale of a clean-tech scale-up to an Eastern European strategic purchaser.
- Advised on the sale of a Swiss engineering company to a British strategic buyer.
- Advised on the sale of a Swiss medtech startup to an Australian strategic buyer.
- Advised on the sale of an agri-tech group to an Israeli/Chinese strategic purchaser.
- Advised on the sale of a radiology hardware upcycling company to a Mauritian strategic buyer.
- Advised on the sale of a tech-enabled cosmetics logistics and distribution company to a strategic purchaser.
- Advised on a quasi-merger of a Swiss orthopedic pharmaceutical company with a Brazilian pharmaceutical company via share-swap.
- Negotiated a joint venture between a cleantech startup and a high-performance computing hardware company.
- Advised a pharmacy retail and distribution group on sales and acquisitions of tech-enabled pharmaceutical companies.
- Led the corporate reorganization of a venture-backed crypto marketplace for international expansion.
- Provided strategic counsel to an institutional investor on a venture loan and equity investment.
Languages
French, English, German