Dr. Yves Mauchle
Biography
Yves Mauchle is a Partner in Baker McKenzie Switzerland's Corporate Finance department and acts as Co-Head of the Firm's Swiss Capital Markets Practice Group. He joined the Firm in 2011 as a trainee lawyer and rejoined as an associate in 2016. Prior to his return, Yves worked as an associate lecturer and researcher at the University of Zurich in the Research Priority Program "Financial Market Regulation." He was awarded the Professor Walther Hug Prize and the Issekutz Prize for his dissertation in the field of bank insolvencies (resolution). Yves completed a four-month full-time secondment with UBS, further developing his knowledge in the areas of bank regulation and capital markets.
Yves' clients give him "outstanding" reviews and describe him as "very hands-on, pragmatic and knowledgeable", a "really good executor" with "deep technical understanding which he can translate into legal solutions" (Chambers, 2024), as well as "very responsive, astute, trusted and commercial" (Chambers, 2022) and "very competent, knowledgeable and easy to work with" (The Legal 500 Guide, 2020).
Practice Focus
Representative Legal Matters
- Advised BX-listed Ultima Capital on contribution in kind of CHF 530 million real estate assets against issuance of new shares, including a complex restructuring of the capital and shareholder structure and takeover clearance.
- Advised Privatbank IHAG on the sale of its business to Bank Vontobel.
- Advised SIX-listed R&S Group on its acquisition of Kyte Powertech, including the equity and debt financing.
- Advised SIX-listed DocMorris on its convertible bonds (including share lending facility and concurrent delta placement), its accelerated bookbuildings (ABBs), its straight bonds and its liability management transactions.
- Structured the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) under Swiss law and advised VT5 Acquisition Company, the first Swiss-listed SPAC, on its initial public offering (IPO) and subsequent De-SPAC transaction acquiring R&S Group.
- Acted for the issuer, underwriters or depositary bank in each of the four inaugural global depositary receipts (GDR) listings on SIX Swiss Exchange under China-Switzerland Stock Connect (Gem Co., Gotion High-tech Co., Keda Industrial Group Co. and Ningbo Shanshan Co.).
- Advised UBS Investment Bank, SBI Digital Asset Holdings and DBS Bank on the world's first cross-border repo and natively-issued digital bond fully executed and settled on a public blockchain (Project Guardian).
- Represented SIX-listed DocMorris on the sale of Zur Rose to Medbase.
- Advised PSP Swiss Property AG on the conversion of its bond portfolio to green bonds.
- Acted for Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) as depositary institution in the IPO of ABB spinoff Acceleron.
Professional Honors
- Up and Coming, Capital Markets, Chambers Global (ranked since 2024)
- Up and Coming, Capital Markets, Chambers Europe (ranked since 2023)
- Rising Star, EMEA Equity Capital Markets, IFLR (2022)
- Rising Star, Capital Markets – Switzerland, Expert Guides by the Legal Media Group (from 2020)
Professional Associations and Memberships
- HSG Alumni - Member
- CEIBS Alumni - Member
- Zurich Bar Association - Member
- Swiss Bar Association - Member
Admissions
- Switzerland (2013)
Education
- University of Zurich (Dr. iur. / PhD), (summa cum laude, Professor Walther Hug Prize, Issekutz Prize) (2017)
- University of St. Gallen (M.A. HSG Accounting & Finance) (2015)
- University of St. Gallen (M.A. HSG Law & Economics) (2012)
- China Europe International Business School, Shanghai (MBA Exchange Student) (2010)
- University of St. Gallen (B.A. HSG Law & Economics) (2009)
- University of Geneva (Certificate in Transnational Law) (2008)
Languages
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish