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René Bösch

René
Bösch

Of Counsel
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René Bösch

René Bösch was a partner at Homburger for more than 25 years and is now Of Counsel in the Financial Market Regulation and the Capital Markets teams. He has many years of extensive experience in capital market transactions and financial markets regulation.

René Bösch was a partner at Homburger for more than 25 years and is now Of Counsel in the Financial Market Regulation and the Capital Markets teams. He has many years of extensive experience in capital market transactions and financial markets regulation.

Capital MarketsFinancial Market Regulation
2024
Of Counsel at Homburger
2022
Senior Counsel at Homburger
2005
Head of Financial Services practice team (until 2015)
1998
Partner at Homburger
1991
Foreign Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, New York
1991
University of Chicago (LL.M.)
1989
Associate at Homburger
1987
University of Zurich (Dr. iur.)

René Bösch regularly acts as senior advisor to banks and was involved in the crafting of the new Swiss Financial Services Act.

2024

René Bösch is well connected and has impressive expertise.

2024

René Bösch stands out as a practitioner who is “clearly a leading banking lawyer” and “one of the top names in Switzerland” for a range of financial and regulatory matters.

2023

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The Legal 500 ranks Homburger Tier 1 in 12 categories and selected 7 lawyers for the Hall of Fame

News

Homburger advised Zürcher Kantonalbank on the issuance of its EUR 500 m Bail-in Bonds

Deals & Cases

The Legal 500 ranks Homburger Tier 1 in 14 categories and selected 7 lawyers for the Hall of Fame

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The Regulatory Agenda for 2024 in Switzerland

René BöschThomas Werlen

CapLaw

Reduced Scope of per se Ad Hoc Obligations on SIX

René BöschPatrick Schleiffer

CapLaw

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rene.boesch@homburger.ch
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René Bösch

Of Counsel

René Bösch was a partner at Homburger for more than 25 years and is now Of Counsel in the Financial Market Regulation and the Capital Markets teams. He has many years of extensive experience in capital market transactions and financial markets regulation.

René Bösch

Over the years, René Bösch has been and still is consistently ranked top tier by leading law directories with respect to his expertise. In 2018, he was awarded “Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year” by Who’s Who Legal for the second time and was named “absolutely top in Swiss debt capital markets” (Chambers Europe 2018) and “the foremost banking practitioner in the EMEA region” (Who’s Who Legal 2018).

René Bösch is a member of the editorial board of CapLaw, an electronic newsletter on Swiss capital markets law.  He has been appointed as a market expert to the P.R.I.M.E. Finance Panel of Experts, was a member of the Council of the Legal Practice Division of the International Bar Association and is a former co-chair of the Securities Law Committee and the Capital Markets Forum.

René Bösch received his PhD from the University of Zurich in 1987 and holds a Master of Law degree (LL.M.) from the University of Chicago Law School. He is registered in the Bar Register of the Canton of Zurich.

Career

2024
Of Counsel at Homburger
2022
Senior Counsel at Homburger
2005
Head of Financial Services practice team (until 2015)
1998
Partner at Homburger
1991
Foreign Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, New York
1991
University of Chicago (LL.M.)
1989
Associate at Homburger
1988
Junior Associate at Homburger
1987
University of Zurich (Dr. iur.)
1984
Research assistant to Prof. Meier-Hayoz at the University of Zurich

Languages

English, German

Bar Registration

Admitted to the Swiss bar

Teams

Capital MarketsFinancial Market Regulation