Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Banking & Finance / Capital Markets / Corporate & Commercial / Financial Services / Restructuring and Insolvency

Philippe Borens is a Partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Zurich office where he heads the Banking and Finance Group. His main areas of practice are banking and finance law, including the regulation of financial intermediaries and financial services, equity and debt capital markets, investment law, and corporate law.

Experience:

• Advising Swiss and international banks, investment firms, asset managers, insurance companies, and corporates in finance transactions, including loans, acquisition finance, rights issues, bonds and notes issues, securitizations, collective investment schemes, hedge funds, derivatives and structured products, as well as securities listings and regulatory issues
• Swiss counsel to ams AG, a leading worldwide supplier of high-performance sensor solutions, in connection with its capital increase in 2020 by way of a rights offering, raising gross proceeds of approx. CHF 1.75 billion, in view of the partial financing of the acquisition of German company Osram Licht AG, with the new shares listed and admitted to trading on SIX Swiss Exchange
• Swiss counsel to PIERER Mobility AG, a leading manufacturer of powered two-wheelers, in connection with the listing and admission to trading of newly issued shares in the amount of EUR 895 million on SIX Swiss Exchange in 2021, including the prospectus approval procedure by way of an automated prospectus recognition for foreign prospectuses. Previously, counsel to the company before the Swiss Takeover Board in connection with an opting-out clause which in the meantime has been approved by the shareholders assembly.

2013-2016 - Managing Partner of Schellenberg Wittmer Pte Ltd in Singapore

2004 - Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer

2002 - Foreign Associate at an international law firm in London

1999 - Associate at Schellenberg Wittme

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Lecturer at the University of Zurich (LL.M. programme) Authorized representative at SIX Swiss Exchange Publications on Swiss securities regulation and capital markets

1999 - Dr. iur., University of Basel

1997 - Bar Admission in Switzerland

1995 - LL.M. in European Economic Law, College of Europe, Bruges

1993 - lic. iur., University of Basel