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Marco Häusermann

Niederer Kraft Frey

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Switzerland
Practice Areas:
Banking
Project finance
Capital markets : Debt
Financial services regulatory
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Financial services
Languages:
German
English
Biography

Marco Häusermann is a specialist for banking & finance (regulatory and transactional) matters, debt capital markets transactions and restructuring, insolvency and netting aspects. He frequently advises domestic and international clients on general corporate lending, leveraged, asset, project and other structured finance transactions as well as in work-out and restructuring situations as well as debt capital market transactions.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advised EIB; EBRD, Bpifrance, Euler Hermes, SACE and various commercial lenders on the EUR 3.9 bn project financing for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline project being the largest project finance agreed for a European infrastructure project in 2018
  • Advised Barclays Bank PLC, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Merrill Lynch International and UBS Limited in their capacity as joint lead managers in the offering of USD 500 million, 6-year senior exchangeable notes with issuer stock settlement of Swiss Re.
  • Advised Glencore in 2017 on its USD 20 billion EMTN programme update as well as two 144A notes issuance for an aggregate deal value of USD 1.5bn
  • Advised a consortium led by Cellnex Telecom and further comprising Swiss Life Asset Managers and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners in its credit financing for the acquisition of Swiss Towers AG which owns a portfolio of 2'239 telecom towers in Switzerland for the Sunrise telecom network
  • Advised BBVA, Goldman Sachs, ING, Santander, UBS and UniCredit as arrangers in connection with a fully committed debt bridge facility of EUR 3.6 billion (CHF 3.8 billion) for Dufry for the financing of the acquisition of WDF and the refinancing of WDF’s debt which is expected to be refinanced by the rights issue of at least EUR 2.1 billion (CHF 2.2 billion) and long-term debt instruments for a total amount of up to EUR 1.5 billion (CHF 1.6 billion)
Practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: High yield
  • Financial restructuring
  • Project finance
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Trade finance
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Insurance
  • Oil and gas
Bar admissions
  • Switzerland
  • New York
Association memberships
  • Swiss Bar Association
  • Zurich Bar Association 
  • International Bar Association (IBA)
Academic qualifications
  • Certificate in Business Administration, Joint program between Northwestern University Law School (LL.M.) and Kellogg School of Management, USA (2002 – 2003)
  • Master of Laws (Lizenziat), University of St. Gallen (2000)
Address:
Zurich
Tel:+41 58 800 8453 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.nkf.ch/en/people/haeusermann-marco.php