Capital markets

Advestra

Client Satisfaction

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

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

‘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.

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