Ulrich Reers

Bio

Ulrich Reers is a key member in the corporate team and is co-head of Capital Markets in Germany. In addition to providing corporate law advice to private and public companies, he specialises in advising issuers, financial institutions and investors on share placements and IPOs, as well as on public takeovers and M&A transactions. He has been advising on all types of share and bond issues for almost twenty years.

He has gained in-depth experience in IPOs of German companies in the Netherlands and the USA as well as in the life sciences and real estate sectors. His advice also includes issues of digital securities.

Ulrich studied law at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Paris-X Nanterre (France), where he earned the grade Maîtrise en Droit in 1998. Ulrich began his career as a lawyer in 2003 at Buse Heberer Fromm followed by three years in the legal department of Hudson Advisors, the asset manager of Lone Star Funds specialised in distressed investments. At the beginning of 2008, he joined the corporate and capital markets team at Linklaters. During that time, he was seconded to the legal department for capital markets and M&A of Commerzbank.

Since 2011, he had been a partner in the Corporate / Capital Markets group at Taylor Wessing until he joined Gowling WLG in May 2023 and co-founded the Frankfurt office.

Expérience

GK Software SE on Board Responsibilities, Shareholder Lawsuits, and Post-M&A matters.
Advising a publicly traded company in an administrative proceeding following a change in legal form.
Advising an international mining company on structuring a joint venture for a lithium processing plant in Germany.
Advising Formycon AG on the private placement of new shares totalling €70 million.
Advising Vivoryon Therapeutics N.V. on several private placements of new shares and warrants.
Advising Formycon AG on the acquisition of biosimilar assets in exchange for the issuance of new shares totalling €650 million.
Advising Vivoryon Therapeutics AG on a €43 million public offering of new shares.
Advising Hauck & Aufhäuser and mBank on the voluntary public exchange offer of Vita 34 AG to the shareholders of Polish PBKM.
Advising STOKR S.A. on the public offering of tokenised profit participation rights.
Advising Vivoryon Therapeutics AG on its cross-border conversion into a Dutch N.V. while maintaining its listing on Euronext Amsterdam.
Advising Centogene AG (now Centogene N.V.) and InflarX N.V. on their respective IPOs on Nasdaq and Centogene N.V. on a subsequent capital increase.
Advising Brockhaus Capital Management AG (now Brockhaus Technologies AG) on its IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Advising Probiodrug AG on its initial public offering on Euronext Amsterdam.
Advising LM Pay S.A. on its IPO on the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange.

Carrière et formation

2026

Gowling WLG (UK), Of Counsel

2023

Gowling WLG (UK), Partner

2011

Taylor Wessing, Partner

2008

Linklaters LLP, Managing Associate

2005

Hudson Advisors Germany GmbH, Senior Legal Counsel

2003

Buse Heberer Fromm, Associate

2003

Qualified, Rechtsanwalt, Germany

Formation

2000

University of Münster

1998

Université de Paris - Nanterre

Langues

Anglais

Allemand

Ulrich Reers

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