Walder Wyss Transforms Its Client Transaction Experience Using HighQ

To provide state-of-the-art file sharing, data room, collaboration, and document automation capabilities to clients, Swiss law firm Walder Wyss has adopted Thomson Reuters HighQ, the law firm operations and management software which simplifies legal processes and facilitates legal project management in one place.

Walder Wyss is one of the most successful and fastest-growing commercial law firms in Switzerland, specializing in corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, intellectual property, technology and competition law, dispute resolution, and tax law. First established in Zurich in 1972, its clients include national and international companies, publicly held corporations, and family businesses, as well as public law institutions and private clients. The firm has around 250 lawyers and legal experts, working across its offices in Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Lugano.

The firm selected HighQ to significantly streamline and enhance its options to deliver legal services to clients via a state-of-the-art collaboration platform. This includes being able to quickly set up and effortlessly manage virtual data rooms, as well as offering clients file storage, file exchange, and collaboration capabilities which are the most secure and easiest to use in the industry. In addition, the firm and its clients will benefit from the robust document automation capability that is available through HighQ. This allows the firm to automate standard templates, increasing the efficiency of its legal services, as well as to offer client-tailored automation solutions as a supplementary service.

“Adopting HighQ will enable us to transform the way we work with both clients and colleagues by combining automated workflows, document automation, and secure collaboration all in one place,” said Michael Isler, partner at Walder Wyss. “HighQ allows us to securely manage transactions, set up virtual data rooms, and collaborate on documents in a very user-friendly environment. More widely, we can foresee many other potential use cases and benefits from our adoption of HighQ within our business, including the significant power of document automation.”