Thomas Thies, LLM (Chicago)

Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Senior Associate

Capital Markets

Thomas Thies

Thomas Thies is Senior Associate and member of the pratice group Capital Markets. His practice focuses on advice to listed companies on corporate law as well as capital market transactions (ECM and DCM) and reorganizations.

Projects

  • Fresenius Medical Care in the change of its legal form into a stock corporation and the deconsolidation of Fresenius, including carve-out (2023)
  • Daimler Truck on the first-time implementation of its commercial paper program with a total volume of up to € 2.0 billion. (2023)
  • Fresenius Medical Care on the issuance of bonds in the nominal value of €750m (2022)
  • CECONOMY on the issue and admission of 125.8 million new shares from a capital increase through contributions in kind and the issue of convertible bonds with a nominal value of €151m (2022)
  • Advice on IPOs: Veganz Group AG (2021); Mutares SE & Co. KGaA (Uplisting 2021); fashionette AG (2020); Compleo Charging Solutions AG (2020)
  • Advice on capital increases: TAG Immobilien AG (2022), Compleo Charging Solutions AG (2021), Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA (2021)

Career

Legal studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Postgraduate studies (LL.M.) at University of Chicago (USA)
Research assistant at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz at the chair for civil, commercial and economic and banking law (Prof. Dr. Peter O. Mülbert)
With Noerr since 2020
Admitted to the Chamber of Lawyers Frankfurt

Memberships

  • German American Lawyers' Association (DAJV)
  • UChicago Law School Alumni Germany e.V.

Publications

  • Sondergesellschaftsrecht im Finanzsektor - Aufsichtsrechtliche Regulierung der Corporate Governance von Ratingagenturen, Referenzwert-Administratoren, zentralen Gegenparteien und Zentralverwahrern, Dissertation, Duncker & Humblot (2023)
  • Das Befreiungsdokument für öffentliche Tauschangebote nach WpÜG unter der neuen Delegierten Verordnung (EU) 2021/528 (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz and Dr. Philip M. Schmoll), WM 2022, p. 1817 et seq.