Europe
Practice Areas
M&A, PTOs, private equity (incl. venture capital), IPOs, equity offerings (incl. innovative structures), shareholder activism, corporate law and governance, securities regulation.
Career
Homburger since 1998. Foreign Associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, 2003-04. Secondment with Nestlé in 2004. Partner at Homburger since 2005. Authorised representative at SIX Swiss Exchange since 2005.
Professional Memberships
Admissions: all Swiss courts (1994); New York Bar (1998).
Publications
Publications include articles on (i) Superstar-CEOs, (ii) venture capital financing in down rounds, (iii) business judgment rule, (iv) reverse stock split, (v) SPACs and De-SPAC transac-tions, (vi) equity kickers, (vii) merger of equals, (viii) shareholder activism and settlement, (x) banking M&A, (xi) takeover offers vs. mergers, (xii) spin-offs and demergers, (xiii) company valuations and appraisal rights, (xiv) PIPEs and cornerstone investors, (xv) private equity fi-nancing and exits, (xvi) cross-border triangular mergers.
Personal
Columbia Law School (LLM, 1997) University of Neuchâtel (Dr iur, 2000); Member of the editorial board of the law journal "Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht (GesKR)".
Work Highlights
Addex Therapeutics in M&A, corporate and capital markets matters; • Alcon in M&A, corporate, capital markets, stock exchange and financing matters; •Avolta AG (formerly Dufry AG) in M&A, corporate and capital markets matters, recently its strategic combination with Autogrill; •Clariant Ltd in M&A, corporate and capital markets matters, recently in the sale of its worldwide Pigments and Masterbatches businesses, and in the aborted merger of equals with Huntsman; •DKSH Holding AG in M&A, corporate and capital markets matters, recently in the acquisition of Terra Firma and Refarmed; •Temasek in various investments in Switzerland; •Softbank in its investment in GetYourGuide; • Galderma in its IPO on SIX Swiss Exchange; •Various IPOs and rights issues (Dufry, Leonteq, Medacta, PolyPeptide, etc).
Industry Sector Expertise
• Financial Investors
• Financial Services
• Healthcare and Life Sciences
• Industrial, Engineering and Manufacturing
• Retail and Consumer
• Technology, Medias and Telecoms (TMT)
Languages Spoken
English, German and French
