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Heinz Schärer

Homburger

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Position: Senior Counsel
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Switzerland
Practice Areas:
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
German
English
French
Biography

Heinz Schärer is a Senior Counsel in Homburger’s Corporate / M&A practice team.

His practice focuses on M&A, PE transactions, Public Takeovers, VC and JVs, corporate law and corporate
finance including securities offerings and IPOs. He is an Authorized Issuers’ Representative at the SIX Swiss
Exchange.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advised Avaloq Group and their majority shareholders on the sale of the Avaloq Group to NEC Corporation (CHF 2 bn).

  • Advised Roche Holding AG on their repurchase of the Novartis stake in Roche Holding AG and the financing of the transaction (USD 21 bn).
Practice areas
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Financial restructuring
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Project development
  • Project finance
Sector specialisations
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Healthcare I
  • ndustrials
  • Insurance
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Technology and telecommunications
Association memberships
  • IBA
Academic qualifications
  • Dr. iur. - University of Fribourg School of Law (1981)
  • M.C.L. Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas(1981)
Bar admissions
  • Swiss Bar Association (1982)
Address:
Zürich
Switzerland
Tel:+41 43 222 1565 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.homburger.ch/en/team/heinz-scharer