Reto Vonzun

Reto Vonzun


Walder Wyss AG

Recognized since 2019

Basel, Switzerland

Practice Areas

Corporate Law

Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2025 - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Send Reto Vonzun an email at reto.vonzun@walderwyss.com Navigate to map location for Reto Vonzun
Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2025 - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Spinning circle Big letter B

Reto Vonzun is a partner at Walder Wyss since 2014. His practice focuses mainly on corporate and commercial law, M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions. As co-author of the Zurich Commentary on the Simple Partnership (art. 530–551 CO) he is also recognized as one of Switzerland's leading scholars and practitioners in the area of partnership law. Finally, Reto Vonzun acts for various medium-sized and larger companies and their executive management as the 'point of first entry', advises them on all legal matters related to their daily operations and organizes for them a timely handling of their requests by other specialists. In his fields of expertise, he also represents his clients in litigation.

Born in 1972, Reto Vonzun studied at the Universitiy of Basel (lic. iur. 1997; Dr. iur. 2000) and received his master's degree in American law from the Boston University School of Law (LL.M. 2001). He started his professional career in the legal department at Swatch-Group (1997) and worked as research assistant at the law faculty of the University of Basel (1997–2000). After various internships at courts and a law firm, Reto Vonzun was admitted to the bar in 2003 and worked during nine years (2005–2014) as a lawyer for a leading Swiss law firm (2011–2014 as a partner) with offices in Basel, Zurich and Bern.

Reto Vonzun's professional languages are German and English. He also speaks French.

Location
  • Aeschenvorstadt 48
    P.O. Box 633
    Basel 4010
    Switzerland
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • German

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2025 - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Basel, Switzerland (2025)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Switzerland 2025 for work in:
  • Corporate Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Your browser is not fully compatible with our automatic printer friendly formatting.

Please use the print button to print this profile page.

Spinning circle Big letter B