Bio

Alexander Gutmans is a partner at Walder Wyss since 2014. He advises national and international clients in the fields of commercial and corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, private equity, venture capital and financings as well as in the field of health care and life sciences in contractual and regulatory matters. As a notary of the canton Basel-Stadt he accompanies his clients in commercial register and real estate register transactions as well as German notarisations. Alexander Gutmans is also active as board member. Born in 1967, Alexander Gutmans studied at the university of Basel (lic. iur. 1990; Dr. iur. 1995) and Lausanne an received a master’s degree from Yale Law School (LL.M. 1996). In 1993 Alexander Gutmans was admitted as attorney at law and in 2002 as notary. He started his professional career as legal counsel at Sandoz AG and after an assignment as foreign associate with an American law firm in New York he worked during 15 years as a lawyer for a leading Swiss law firm with offices in Basel, Bern and Zurich, during the last 11 years as a partner. Alexander Gutmans‘ professional work languages are German and English. He also speaks French.