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Urs Schenker

Walder Wyss

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Position: Counsel
Rating:
  • Expert consultant
Bar Admissions:
Switzerland
Practice Areas:
Banking
Financial restructuring
Capital markets
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Banking
Consumer goods and services
Financial services
Insurance
Pharmaceuticals and life sciences
Languages:
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Biography

Urs Schenker is very experienced in the areas of restructuring, financing, capital markets, M&As and company law. He has been involved in numerous national and international M&A transactions and public takeovers as well as financing, restructuring and other corporate finance transactions. He has published a number of books and specialist articles in his fields of expertise and is a regular lecturer at conferences in Switzerland and abroad.

Urs Schenker completed his law studies in Zurich in 1981 (lic. iur.) and in 1985 (Dr. iur.). He obtained an LL.M. at Harvard Law School in 1985. In 2009, he published his habilitation thesis on 'Swiss Takeover Law' at the University of St. Gallen where he is professor for business and commercial law.

Urs Schenker speaks German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.

Practice areas
  • M&A
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Financial restructuring
Bar admissions
  •  Switzerland
Address:
Zurich
Tel:+41586585531 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.walderwyss.com/en/lawyers/urs.schenker