Bär & Karrer Ltd.’s capital markets team provides clients with guidance on complex transactions such as spin-offs and high-value bond and note issuances. The core practitioners spearheading the practice are Ralph Malacrida, Urs Kägi, Lukas Roesler, Rolf Watter, and Dieter Dubs. Issuers, investors and financial institutions instruct co-head Kägi on new listings and capital increases. Leading the team alongside him, Roesler brings considerable experience in counselling clients on their debt programmes.

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Urs Kägi has extensive experience in high-profile capital market transactions.
Highly experienced and knowledgeable in all aspects of Swiss capital market transactions, with a large setup providing sufficient resources whenever required, and short response times.
‘Ralph Malacrida knows how to leverage his extensive experience in a way that creates significant added value for the client; he searches for and finds practical solutions quickly and efficiently and implements them with great care.’
‘Perfect collaboration, the team is perfectly aligned, so that core team members were always up to date on various topics and responsive for anyone from client side. The team is well informed about current market activities, which is extremely valuable to find the best solutions and terms with banking counterparties.’
‘Highly solution-oriented - adopting clients' needs perfectly - responsiveness is remarkable - extensive cross-disciplinary competence.’
‘Competent, prompt and professional.’
‘Rolf Watter: professionalism, know-how, experience, responsiveness, pragmatic advice.’

Key clients

Holcim AG
Amrize AG
Aebi Schmidt
Chubb
SGS SA
UBS AG

Work highlights

Advised Holcim and Amrize on the spin-off of Amrize.

Advised Aebi Schmidt Group on its merger with The Shyft Group and listing on the NASDAQ.

Advised Bank Vontobel AG on its inaugural issuance of CHF200m senior bonds on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

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