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Hansjürg Appenzeller

Homburger

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Switzerland
New York
Practice Areas:
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
German
English
Biography

Hansjürg Appenzeller is a member of the Corporate | M&A and Banking and Finance teams, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, including public takeover offers, private equity transactions and capital markets work. He heads the Insurance working group.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advised Cerberus Capital Management LP on the acquisition and financing of asset sale by Intrum;
  • Advised Helvetia on the placement of 3.3 m shares by way of an accelerated bookbuilding process;
  • Advised Alpiq in its going private;
  • Advised TwelveCapital in its business combination with Securis Investment Partner to create a leading asset manager in the field of Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS);
  • Advised HBM Healthcare Investments on the issuance of CHF 100 m 1.125 per cent Bonds due 2027;
  • Advised Helvetia Holding AG in its public takeover of Nationale Suisse;
  • Advised Credit Suisse Group AG in the CHF 6 billion capital increase and rights offering;
Practice areas
  • Insurance
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Financial services regulatory
  • M&A
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Insurance
  • Investment management
Bar admissions
  • At all Swiss courts
Association memberships
  • Zurich Bar (1997)
Academic qualifications
  • Master of Comparative Jurisprudence, New York University, (1994)
  • Dr. iur., University of Zurich, (1996)
Address:
Zurich
Switzerland
Tel:+41 43 222 1000 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.homburger.ch/nc/en/lawyers/detail/lawyer/show/hansjuerg-appenzeller/