Christoph guides clients through equity and debt capital markets, helping clients navigate complex public capital market transactions. His expertise enables businesses to optimise their financing strategies across the entire liability side of the balance sheet while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Christoph tackles the full spectrum of capital markets law, advising issuers and underwriters on IPOs, rights offerings, other share placements, as well as on convertible, exchangeable and straight bond offerings (including high yield under German law) and on liability management transactions. In every matter, he seeks to enable our clients to achieve their strategic financing needs swiftly, efficiently while properly managing their legal risks.
Christoph’s innovative approach to debt capital markets products, particularly in structuring hybrid capital instruments, enables clients to meet complex regulatory, tax, rating and accounting requirements. He has also been at the forefront of implementing innovative and complex IPO structures. Christoph regularly advises issuers on compliance with capital markets regulations, empowering them to achieve their commercial ambitions while reducing exposure to risk.
Consistently recognised as a leading lawyer for equity and debt capital markets by peers and clients in all relevant directories, Christoph’s reputation underscores his ability to deliver exceptional results in complex, multilayered transactions.
Fluent in German and English, Christoph facilitates seamless communication across borders, offering strategic advice tailored to his clients’ specific needs.
- IPOs: i.a. SCHOTT Pharma, IONOS, Vitesco Technologies, Auto1, Zalando, Delivery Hero, Knorr-Bremse, JOST, BAWAG, pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, ProCredit, EDAG, Vonovia, KION, Talanx, Deutsche Bahn;
- Capital increases of German issuers: Infineon on its €1.4bn and €1.1bn capital increases, Nordex on its €400m and its €590m capital increases, Vossloh on its €150m capital increase, Continental in connection with its €1.1bn rights issue and its €1.5bn non-rights capital increase, Linde in connection with a rights offering, as well as capital increases of Aareal Bank, Commerzbank, Kion, GSW Immobilien and the Federal State of Berlin in connection with the contemplated placement of its interest in Landesbank Berlin Holding;
- Issuance of high yield bonds by various issuers such as: Continental, WEPA, Techem, Kabel Deutschland, Schmolz + Bickenbach, Cognis and Flender;
- Debt issuance programmes, stand-alone senior bonds, equity linked bonds and hybrid capital instruments of various German corporates such as: Aareal, Bertelsmann, Commerzbank, Continental, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Börse, Dürr, Fraport, Fresenius, Fresenius Medical Care, HOCHTIEF, Infineon, IVG, Linde, Mercedes-Benz, Merck, MTU, NORD/LB, pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, Porsche, REWE, RWE, Sartorius, Siemens, Südzucker, TUI, Vonovia, Zalando, ZF Friedrichshafen;
- The Federal Republic of Germany – Finanzagentur GmbH on the issuance of various syndicated bonds by the Federal Republic of Germany (including the debut issuances of Bund-Länder-Anleihen and inflation-linked bonds).
