Ursula Rath is a partner at Schoenherr in its Vienna office where she co-heads the firm's capital markets practice and specialises in (equity and debt) capital markets transactions, investment funds and financial services regulation and m&a transactions in the financial services industry. For more than a decade, she has advised issuers, selling shareholders, banks and other financial institutions as well as investors on international and local capital markets transactions and on combined bank debt and high-yield bond issuances. She has a broad range of experience in initial public and secondary offerings, stock exchange listings, liability management transactions, notes offerings (in particular high yield) and private placements of debt or equity instruments. Ursula also advises national and international players on regulatory developments and changes such as in relation to Brexit contingency planning, PSD II and MiFID II. She is a member of the Austrian Ministry of Finance's FinTech Advisory Board and of the Regulatory Sandbox Advisory Board where she consults on priority actions around start-up financing, digital assets and regulatory aspects of the coming to market of innovative business models.
After graduation from the University of Vienna (Dr. iur., 2001, Mag. iur., 1999) and following two years of professional experience with a Vienna-based corporate law firm, Ursula earned a post-graduate degree (LL.M., 2003) from the London School of Economics and Political Science before joining the firm in 2003. She regularly contributes to national and international journals and has published various articles on financial services regulation, capital markets and funds.
