Pestalozzi has maintained a stellar reputation in capital markets matters due to its breadth of practice area and breadth of industry sector coverage as well as its depth and experience of its team, particularly bond and derivatives issues for a long time. Pestalozzi has been involved in most of the high-calibre capital market transactions in Switzerland in one way or the other.
Pestalozzi's capital markets team provides advice in relation to:
- Initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary and follow-on stock offerings
- High yield bond and high yield debt and bridge financings
- Equity-linked securities and equity derivatives
- Listing of ETFs
- Eurobonds, investment grade bonds and programs
- Private equity and mezzanine financing
- Private placements, as well as public equity (PIPE) offerings
- Restructuring financing (convertible bonds into listed companies)
- Liability management transactions, such as tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations, amendments and waivers
- Securities and financial regulatory issues with SIX Swiss Exchange registrations, regulations of global regulatory institutions, including stock exchanges, and rules of and reviews by the Swiss Financial Markets Authority
- Stock exchange listings
- Securitisations
- Several partners (Severin Roelli, Oliver Widmer, Franz J. Kessler and Christian Leuenberger) are recognised issuer's representatives, i.e., they are authorised to submit listing applications for equity and debt securities to SIX Swiss Exchange.
