Valérie Bayard, LL.M.
Associate | Attorney at Law
T. +41 58 510 92 93
valerie.bayard@advestra.ch
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Valérie advises clients on capital market transactions, as well as on regulatory matters.
She assists banks and issuers on a broad range of capital market transactions such as IPOs, rights offerings, private placements and bonds issuances, including convertible bonds as well as hybrid and regulatory debt instruments.
Valérie also advises financial intermediaries on compliance with their regulatory duties. Furthermore, she assists companies on M&A and financing transactions as well as on various corporate and contract law matters.
- Advising UBS on Rieter Holding's rights offering
- Advising Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays, BNP PARIBAS, Morgan Stanley and ZKB on the IPO of SMG Swiss Marketplace Group Holding
- Advising Galderma on its inaugural EUR 500 million bonds and its dual tranche of CHF 435 million bonds
- Advising Citigroup, UBS and Stifel on the IPO of BioVersys
- Advising Novartis on the issuance of CHF 2.2 billion bonds
- Advising UBS and ZKB on the first Swiss De-SPAC
- Advising Swiss Prime Site on the placement of convertible loan notes
- Advising Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and ZKB on the rights offering by Meyer Burger
- Associate at Advestra (since 2021)
- Admitted to the Bar of the canton of Zurich (2021)
- Junior associate at a leading Swiss law firm (2018–2020)
- LL.M. at Leiden University (2018)
- Junior Risk Manager for a major Swiss Bank (2017)
- Trainee with the General Counsel of a major Swiss Bank (2016)
- MLaw at University of Zurich (2016)
- BLaw at University of Zurich (2015)
- Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
- Leiden University Alumni
Newsletters and trade publications
- Rashid Bahar
- Annette Weber
- Valérie Bayard
in: Lexology Getting The Deal Through Swiss 2023 M&A Practice Guide, 2023
- Rashid Bahar
- Rashid Bahar
- Annette Weber
- Valérie Bayard
Shareholder Activism in Switzerland
in: Lexology Getting The Deal Through Swiss 2022 M&A Practice Guide, 2022
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