Latham & Watkins LLP

Partner

Dr. Rüdiger Malaun, a highly regarded German capital markets lawyer and former Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice, advises clients on strategic financing transactions, with a particular focus on high-yield bond offerings and other debt instruments. He draws on more than 20 years of experience, handling a remarkable volume of the largest and most sophisticated offerings in Europe, among them more than 60 high-yield bond transactions.

Dr. Malaun has earned widespread recognition for his work. JUVE notes he is the “clear leader on high-yield bonds” who “plays in a league of his own” and Chambers interviewees describe him as “the biggest name for high-yield work in Germany” and “highly skilled, very effective and technically brilliant.”

Dr. Malaun advises corporates, sponsors, and investment banks on:

• • Complex high-yield bond transactions (both under US and German law), including related liability management transactions
  • Equity and equity-linked financings
  • Large corporate bonds
  • Commitment papers for bridge-to-bond financing transactions
  • P2P financing transactions
  • ‘Cross-over’ bonds (e.g. in the real estate sector in the DACH Region)
  • High yield bond advise in restructuring context