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The ‘super focused’ team at Advestra, while fielding a broad capital markets offering, is routinely engaged by clients to manage rights offerings, issuance of shares and a diverse multitude of other cross-border work. Thomas Reutter is reputed for his work involving innovative capital market instruments, while Annette Weber advises on a diverse range of equity and debt capital market transactions. Sandro Fehlmann bolsters the practice with his expertise in handling regulatory hybrid instruments. Alexander von Jeinsen advises issuers and banks on a variety of complex transactions.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Super focused team of a great size, always reachable.'

  • 'Strong partner attention is received, but the team also has solid and reliable grounds below partner level.'

  • 'Very knowledgeable, they can cover all sorts of products and areas of law.’

  • ‘Alexander von Jeinsen, Sandro Feldmann, Annette Weber are all very strong and charismatic partners. Great pleasure to work with.

  • 'Hands-on like no other Swiss law firm. Highly experienced and quick - they deliver what is needed.'

  • 'They have the knowledge and the strong backbone to defend a client's case in a highly diplomatic way.'

Key clients

  • Salt Mobile S.A:
  • Joincare Pharmaceutical Group Industry
  • BofA Securities
  • Goldman Sachs International
  • Credit Suisse
  • Jefferies
  • SIG Group
  • UBS AG
  • Ningbo Shanshan Co., Ltd
  • Lonza Group
  • ABN Amro
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Sunwoda Electronic Co., Ltd.
  • ZKB
  • Swiss Prime Site
  • Barclays
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Santander
  • Commerzbank
  • Ares Management Corporation
  • Zhejiang HangKE Technology Incorporated Company
  • Zhejiang Supcon Technlogoy

Work highlights

  • Advised the Goldman Sachs, ABN AMRO and J.P. Morgan on the accelerated book building by DSM-Firmenich related to the buy-out of shares not tendered in the exchange offer to DSM shareholders.
  • Advised real estate company Swiss Prime Site on the issuance of convertible loan notes in the aggregate amount of CHF 275m to ELM B.V., a repackaging vehicle.
  • Advised on multiple listings on SIX Swiss Exchange of Global Depositary Receipts by PRC-domiciled issuers, including, most recently, Zhejiang Supcon Technology, Zhejiang HangKe Technology, and Sunwoda Electronic Co., Ltd.

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.

Thomas Reutter

Thomas Reutter

Hall of fameAdvestra

Partner Thomas Reut­ter advises cli­ents with their cap­it­al mar­ket and M&A trans­ac­tions. He also advises numer­ous com­pan­ies in secur­it­ies and cor­por­ate law mat­ters as well as on ques­tions of cor­por­ate gov­ernance and compensation.

Next Generation Partners

Alexander von Jeinsen

Advestra

Partner Alex­an­der von Jein­sen’s broad prac­tice cov­ers cap­it­al mar­kets and fin­an­cing trans­ac­tions, M&A trans­ac­tions, and restructurings.

Annette Weber

Advestra

Partner Annette Weber focuses on cap­it­al mar­ket trans­ac­tions as well as M&A trans­ac­tions. In addi­tion, she advises com­pan­ies in the area of cor­por­ate gov­ernance and secur­it­ies laws.

Other key lawyers

Thomas Reutter, Annette Weber, Sandro Fehlmann, Alexander von Jeinsen