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Ursula Rath

Ursula Rath

Global 2026

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About

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Practice Areas

banking & financial services regulatory, capital markets, finance & corporate finance

Career

Ursula Rath is a partner at Schoenherr where she co-heads the firm's capital markets practice and specialises in (equity and debt) capital markets transactions, investment funds, financial services regulation, and m&a transactions in the financial services industry. For over two decades, she has advised issuers, selling shareholders, banks and other financial institutions as well as investors on international and local capital markets transactions and on combined bank debt and high-yield bond issuances. She has a broad range of experience in initial public and secondary offerings, stock exchange listings, liability management transactions, notes offerings (in particular high yield) and private placements of debt or equity instruments. Ursula also advises national and international players on regulatory developments and changes.

Professional Memberships

IBA

Austrian Ministry of Finance's FinTech Advisory Board (consulting on priority actions around start-up financing, ICOs and digital assets)

Austrian Ministry Regulatory Sandbox Advisory Board

Personal

London School of Economics and Political Science, London/UK (LL.M. 2003)

University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria (Dr. iur. 2001)

University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria (Mag. iur. 1999)

Chambers Review

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Chambers Global Guide

Capital Markets - Austria

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial
Ursula Rath is primarily focused on DCM work, including placements, purchases and issuances of high-yield bonds, government bonds and green notes. She advises corporate issuers as well as banks as lead manager.

Strengths

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  • Ursula Rath is very good to work with and extremely personable. She is our go-to lawyer in Austria.

    Capital MarketsChambers Global Guide

Ranked Individuals at Schoenherr (59)

Austria

Belgium

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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