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Marc O. Plepelits
Partner

Education
New York University School of Law, LL.M., 1997
University of Vienna School of Law, Mag. jur., 1995

Practice
Marc Plepelits is a partner in the Corporate group of the Frankfurt office of Shearman & Sterling. He is a member of Capital Markets practice group. He regularly represents issuers, underwriters and other market participants in a wide range of equity, equity-linked and debt financings, including initial public offerings, capital increases and offerings of investment grade and high yield bonds and of convertible and hybrid instruments. He focuses particularly on international transactions by Austrian, German and Swiss companies. Mr. Plepelits has handled transactions by issuers involved in a wide variety of businesses and industries, including automotive, banking, electronics, insurance, oil and gas, real estate, telecommunications and steel. His practice also includes providing advice on U.S. federal securities laws, corporate governance and other corporate matters, both on an ongoing basis and in connection with mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions.

Experience
  • The underwriters in a senior secured high yield bond issue by Continental Aktiengesellschaft
  • Qatar Investment Authority and Qatar Holding LLC on their investment in Porsche Holding SE and VW Aktiengesellschaft
  • The underwriters in a convertible bond offering by CA Immobilien Anlagen AG
  • SGL CARBON SE and A-TEC Industries AG in convertible bond offerings
  • Aabar Investments in connection with its joint investment together with Daimler AG in Tesla Motors
  • Aabar Investments and International Petroleum Investment Company in their acquisition of a 9.1% stake in Daimler AG
  • Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. in a bond offering in Switzerland
  • The underwriters in capital increases and rights offerings by Wiener Städtische Versicherung AG Vienna Insurance Group, Raiffeisen International Bank Holding AG and CA Immobilien Anlagen AG
  • The underwriters in an SEC registered convertible bond offering by Qimonda AG
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland on U.S. securities laws issues in connection with its takeover of ABN AMRO
  • SGL CARBON AG in a combined high yield bond, convertible bond and bank financing
  • The underwriters in the initial public offerings of CA Immo International AG, WIENER STÄDTISCHE Allgemeine Versicherung AG, POLYTEC Holding AG and austriamicrosystems AG
  • A-TEC Industries AG and Zumtobel AG in their initial public offerings
  • The underwriters in a convertible bond offering by voestalpine AG
  • Böhler Uddeholm AG in a capital increase and rights offering
  • The underwriters in a combined capital increase and convertible bond offering by OMV AG
  • Dürr AG in a high yield bond offering
  • Numerous global bond and medium-term note offerings by, among others, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG, L-Bank, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, BayernLB and Hypo Real Estate Bank AG (guaranteed by the German Financial Market Stabilization Fund)


Bar Admissions/Qualifications
New York


Languages
German
English