Iliana Djagova is a partner in the Corporate/M&A team of Walder Wyss. She has extensive experience advising on complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, growth equity financings and late-stage investments. She regularly acts for strategic and financial investors, including private equity firms, on both the buy-side and sell-side. Iliana Djagova also advises companies and shareholders throughout all stages of their lifecycle, with a particular focus on growth-stage and exit transactions. In addition, she counsels private and listed companies, as well as their shareholders, on corporate governance and general corporate and commercial law matters.

Prior to joining Walder Wyss in 2023, Iliana Djagova spent eight years at another leading Swiss law firm, advising on high-profile M&A and private equity transactions. In 2015/16 she further broadened her international experience at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York, USA.

Iliana Djagova studied law at the University of Geneva and Zurich (lic. iur., 2010) and the University of California, Berkeley (LL.M., 2015). She was admitted to the Zurich Bar in 2013 and to the New York Bar in 2018.

Iliana Djagova’s professional languages are German and English. She also speaks Bulgarian and French.

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Convertibles and Warrants – Corporate and Tax Law Pitfalls in Practice

| par Iliana Djagova et Natascha Rizzi | dans: «GesKR - Zeitschrift für Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht» 3/2026 | DIKE Verlag | 311-328 | Zeitschriften

Switzerland – Corporate Governance Laws and Regulations 2026

| par Hans-Jakob Diem et Iliana Djagova | dans: «International Comparative Legal Guides – Corporate Governance Laws and Regulations 2026» | Online-Publikation

Switzerland: A Corporate/M&A Overview

| par Hans-Jakob Diem, Alex Nikitine et Iliana Djagova | dans: «Chambers Global 2026» | Online-Publikation

Basel Commentary on art. 659-659b and 783 CO re Treasury Shares (Online Update)

| par Iliana Djagova et Sarah Vettiger | dans: in: Rolf Watter/Hans-Ueli Vogt (Editor[s]), «Commentary on art. 659-659b and 783 CO re Treasury Shares (Online Update)» | Basler Kommentar zum Obligationenrecht II | Monographien

Equity Finance 2025 - Chapter Switzerland

| par Nico Bernhard, Marion Bähler, Dominik Hohler et Iliana Djagova | dans: «Chambers Global Practice Guides» | Zeitschriften

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