Ulrich Reers
Partner
Ulrich specialises in providing legal support throughout capital market transactions with a focus on advising clients on all matters relating to share placings, admissions to listings on the stock market, official takeovers, and M&A transaction, involving listed companies. For more than 10 years, he has been advising his clients on the issuing of shares and bonds, including their initial public offerings and secondary public offerings, frequently at the interface of private equity.
He gained his hands-on experience in advising German companies on all phases of their stock market launch in the Netherlands and the USA, and in the areas of life sciences and real estate. In the area of advising clients on matters relating to capital market law, Ulrich also focuses on the emission of tokens (digital rights). Ulrich’s clients especially appreciate his advice on matters relating to the structuring of security token offerings (STO) and the associated coordination with the competent supervisory authorities.
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Career
| Since 2011 | Partner, Taylor Wessing |
| 2008 – 2011 | Associate, Linklaters LLP |
| 2005 – 2007 | Senior legal counsel, Hudson Advisors Germany |
| 2003 – 2004 | Associate, Buse Heberer Fromm |
| 2001 – 2003 | Legal clerkship, Münster and Singapur |
Education
| 2003 | Admitted as a lawyer, Germany |
| 2003 | Second state examination |
| 2000 | First state examination |
| 1998 | Maîtrise en Droit (Paris Nanterre) |
Publications
Nach der Krise ist vor der Krise - was müssen Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat eines Bundesligisten bei Transferentscheidungen beachten?, in: Audit Committee Quarterly, p. 28, 2020 Security Token als Unternehmensfinanzierung 4.0, in: PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, Ausgabe #15, November 2018 Gläserne Berater, in: Handelsblatt, 08.07.2014 US-IPOs als Alternative für deutsche Unternehmen?, in: Going Public, 05.2015 Alles auf Angriff?, in: Jahrbuch des Anwaltsspiegels 2013 Gesetzliche Erleichterungen auch außerhalb der Finanzbranche hilfreich, Interview in: Börsenzeitung, 25.05.2013 Bestätigung der umfassenden Hinweispflicht auf die Risiken eines Beherrschungs- und Gewinnabführungsvertrages, in: GWR 2013, p. 339 Die Fälle Lewandowski und Götze – eine gesellschafts- und kapitalmarktrechtliche Nachlese aktueller Transferentscheidungen im Profifußball, in: Corporate Finance Law 2013, p. 182 ff. Shareholder Value oder sportlicher Erfolg, in: Börsenzeitung, 11.10.2013 Wie hältst Du’s mit der Unabhängigkeit?, in: Handelsblatt, 22.10.2013 Strategien gegen feindliche Übernahme, in: Going Public, 12.05.2012 Kapitalerhöhungen bei börsennotierten Aktiengesellschaften in der Krise, in: AG 2010, p. 93 ff. |
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