Zurich

Dr. Philippe Borens, LL.M.

Partner

+41 44 215 5249 philippe.borens@swlegal.ch

Alessandro Ciminelli

Assistant

Philippe Borens is a Partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Zurich office where he heads the Banking and Finance Group. His main areas of practice are banking and finance law, including the regulation of financial intermediaries and financial services, equity and debt capital markets, investment law, and corporate law.

Expertise

Banking & Finance Capital Markets Financial Services

Corporate & Commercial Restructuring and Insolvency

Experience

Advising Swiss and international banks, investment firms, asset managers, insurance companies, and corporates in finance transactions, including loans, acquisition finance, rights issues, bonds and notes issues, securitizations, collective investment schemes, hedge funds, derivatives and structured products, as well as securities listings and regulatory issues
Swiss counsel to ams AG, a leading worldwide supplier of high-performance sensor solutions, in connection with its capital increase in 2020 by way of a rights offering, raising gross proceeds of approx. CHF 1.75 billion, in view of the partial financing of the acquisition of German company Osram Licht AG, with the new shares listed and admitted to trading on SIX Swiss Exchange
Swiss counsel to PIERER Mobility AG, a leading manufacturer of powered two-wheelers, in connection with the listing and admission to trading of newly issued shares in the amount of EUR 895 million on SIX Swiss Exchange in 2021, including the prospectus approval procedure by way of an automated prospectus recognition for foreign prospectuses. Previously, counsel to the company before the Swiss Takeover Board in connection with an opting-out clause which in the meantime has been approved by the shareholders assembly.

Career

Professional Experience

2013-2016

Managing Partner of Schellenberg Wittmer Pte Ltd in Singapore

since 2004

Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer

2002

Foreign Associate at an international law firm in London

1999

Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer

Education and Admission

1999

Dr. iur., University of Basel

1997

Bar Admission in Switzerland

1995

LL.M. in European Economic Law, College of Europe, Bruges

1993

lic. iur., University of Basel

Additional Professional Activities

Lecturer at the University of Zurich (LL.M. programme)
Authorized representative at SIX Swiss Exchange
Publications on Swiss securities regulation and capital markets

Recognitions

Chambers and Partners Global/Europe: Capital Markets since 2012
The Legal 500: Key Lawyer in Insolvency and Corporate Recovery; Key Lawyer in Banking & Finance; Key Lawyer in Capital Markets
Who's Who Legal: Recommended in Banking since 2017; Recommended in Capital Markets since 2018
LMG Expert Guides: Banking 2017
Leaders League: Banking & Finance & Capital Markets since 2015
IFLR 1000: Highly Regarded, Banking and Finance since 2020

Languages

German
English
French
Luxembourgish

Selected Publications

Foreign Direct Investment Regimes 2025 Banking Regulation 2024 Chambers Capital Markets: Debt and Equity Switzerland Mifid II Report 2017: Switzerland Kommentierung von Art. 2 lit. d, 2 lit. f, Art. 33-39 FinfraG

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