Annette Weber, LL.M.
Partner | Attorney-at-Law
T. +41 58 510 92 29 | +41 79 941 11 39
annette.weber@advestra.ch
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Annette Weber focus lies on capital market transactions. In addition, she advises companies on corporate governance and securities laws.
Annette’s capital market practice includes a broad spectrum of equity capital market transactions, such as initial public offerings, rights offerings, spin-offs, or private placements as well as debt capital market transactions, including bonds, convertible bonds as well as hybrid and regulatory capital instruments. She represents both issuers and banks. Annette also regularly advises on sustainable capital markets issuances, such as green bonds or sustainability-linked bonds.
Another focus of Annette’s work is corporate and securities law. Her clients include companies preparing for their IPO and retaining Annette for her advice on corporate structuring, corporate governance, and transparency obligations for public companies. She further advises numerous listed companies on corporate governance and ESG-related matters.
Annette publishes regularly in her areas of expertise. Chambers ranks her for her work in capital markets She is listed as «Next Generation Partner» by Legal500 and as «Rising Star» by IFLR1000 for capital markets.
Capital Markets
- Advising Credit Suisse and UBS on the IPO of the first Swiss SPAC, VT5 Acquisition Company AG
- Advising Cembra Money Bank on the placement of senior unsecured bonds
- Advising Morgan Stanely, UBS and Zürcher Kantonalbank on the placement of shares of Bachem Holding
- Advising Credit Suisse and UBS on the IPO of medmix AG
- Advising Bank of America Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, UBS and Société Générale on the placement of shares of Adecco Group
- Advising Goldman Sachs, Jeffries and ZKB in a combined offering on the placement of shares and EUR 145 million green guaranteed senior unsecured convertible bonds of Meyer Burger
- Advising Novartis on the offering of sustainability-linked bonds
- Advising Goldman Sachs and UBS on the placement of new convertible bonds and the public repurchase offer of existing convertible bonds by Basilea Pharmaceutica
- Advising Implenia and Ina Invest on the spin-off, the rights offering and the listing of Ina Invest
- Advising the banking syndicate regarding the acquisition financing of ams for Osram
- Advising Merrill Lynch International and UBS in connection with the placement of convertible bonds of Zur Rose Group
- Advising Novartis and Alcon on the Spin-off of Alcon
- Advising Cembra Money Bank for the acquisition financing of cashgate (among others, by way of additional Tier 1 bonds and convertible bonds with net share settlement)
- Advising the banking syndicate on the IPO of Galenica Santé
- Advising the banking syndicate of the rights offering of Credit Suisse Group
- Member of the Appeals Board of BX Swiss (since 2022)
- Partner at Advestra (since 2021)
- Associate at Bär & Karrer (2013-2020)
- Columbia Law School: LL.M. (2018)
- University of St. Gallen (HSG): CAS in Law and Management (2017)
- Admitted to the Bar of the canton of Zurich (2013)
- Junior associate at Bär & Karrer (2011-2012)
- University of Zurich: lic.iur. (2010)
- University of Geneva (2008-2009)
- Student trainee at a Swiss law firm (2008)
- Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
- Columbia Alumni
- Ius Alumni University of Zurich
- ESG reporting in Switzerland: an initial assessment, one year in (in IFLR ESG Guide 2024)
- Shareholder Activism in Switzerland, in Lexology Getting The Deal Through Swiss 2023 M&A Practice Guide (with Rashid Bahar and Valérie Bayard)
- Swiss ESG regulation: A legislative landscape in motion (in IFLR EMEA ESG Report 2023)
- Die Prüfstelle im Prospektrecht nach FIDLEG, GesKR 1I2023 (with Jana Gesine Wildberger)
- (Re-)naissance von Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs)?, Kapitalmarkt – Recht und Transaktionen XV (Organization: Europa Institut at the University of Zurich), Zurich, 22 November 2022
- 2022 ICLG Corporate Governance Reports - Switzerland (with Rashid Bahar)
- Shareholder Activism in Switzerland, in Lexology Getting The Deal Through Swiss 2022 M&A Practice Guide (with Rashid Bahar and Valérie Bayard)
- Complying with ESG reporting and due diligence requirements in Switzerland (in IFLR EMEA ESG Report 2022)
- Fast and Easy Access to the Swiss Debt Capital Market with a Foreign Approved Prospectus (with SIX Swiss Exchange 11/2021)
- Upcoming Regulation on Sustainability Reporting and Human Rights Due Diligence in Switzerland, CapLaw – Swiss Capital Markets Law, No. 2/2021
- CSR und Kapitalmarkt, in Kapitalmarkt – Recht und Transaktionen XV, eds: Thomas U. Reutter und Thomas Werlen, 2020 (with Thomas Reutter)
- Changes for Listed Companies under the Corporate Law Reform: Gender Quotas and Say on Pay (CapLaw – Swiss Capital Markets Law, No. 5/2020 (with Daniel Raun)
- A new proxy adviser regulation in Switzerland?, CapLaw – Swiss Capital Markets Law, No. 3/2020 (with Thomas Reutter)
- Guest speaker at the University of St. Gallen (2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019): Regulierung / Marktmacht und Haftung von Proxy Advisors
- Switzerland: Initial Public Offerings, Global Legal Group (GLG), Global Legal Insights (GLI), 2020 (with Alexander von Jeinsen)
- Popular Initiative on Responsible Enterprises: Switzerland's Long Arm on Subject Enterprises, CapLaw - Swiss Capital Markets Law, No. 2/2019 (with Thomas Reutter)
- Equity capital markets in Switzerland: regulatory overview, Thomson Reuters Practical Law (with Thomas Reutter)
- Debt capital markets in Switzerland: regulatory overview, Thomson Reuters Practical Law (with Thomas Reutter)
- Wandelanleihen, in Kapitalmarkt – Recht und Transaktionen XII, eds.: Thomas U. Reutter und Thomas Werlen, 2017 (with Thomas Reutter)
- Kurze Einführung in die Unternehmensfinanzierung, Schulthess Manager Handbuch 2017 (with Thomas Reutter)
- Capital "On Demand": equity Lines / Shares Subscription Facilities for Swiss Listed Companies, CapLaw 2/2016 (with Thomas Reutter)
- German
- English
- French
- All Swiss courts
- Advestra advises on the rights offering by Meyer Burger
- Advestra advises Swiss Prime Site on the placement of bonds
- Advestra advises Barry Callebaut on the placement of CHF 600 mio. inaugural bonds
- Advestra advises on the first Swiss De-SPAC
- Advestra advises HSBC, Morgan Stanley, UBS and the other members of the banking syndicate on the rights offering and the high-yield bonds of ams-OSRAM
- Advestra advised the banking syndicate on the placement of EUR 1.5bn bonds of Roche
- Advestra advises Lonza on the placement of bonds
- Advestra advises Sandoz on the placement of inaugural bonds in the equivalent of CHF 2.65 bn
- Advestra advises Will Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Shanghai on its GDR offering and listing on SIX Swiss Exchange
- Advestra advises Viseca on the placement of bonds