Dr. Urs Lewens

Urs has specialised experience in all fields of national and international finance with focus on syndicated lending, acquisition finance, Schuldschein loans, Sustainability linked loans and financing in the context of spinoff and other corporate reorganisations.

He is member of the firms’ ESG Practise.

He has been ranked as Best Lawyer in the area of Banking and Finance law by Handelsblatt for several years.

Work highlights

Transactions of significance where substantial involvement can be disclosed have included:

• MANN+HUMMEL: advising on the renewal of an €800m revolving syndicated loan, for the first time with a sustainability component.
• QIAGEN: advising on a Schuldschein loan transaction with an ESG-linked sustainable component.
• Uniper: advising on a €1.8bn syndicated credit facility.<
• RWE: advising a syndicate of banks on the US$6.8bn bridge financing for the acquisition of Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses by RWE AG.
• Deutsche Börse: advising on a credit line to finance the intended €3.9bn takeover of the Danish software company SimCorp.
• Scout24: advising on a syndicated credit facility of €400m with sustainability feature.

Urs is working as a lawyer since 2008. He works with Linklaters since 2018 as Counsel.

Urs studied law at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen-Nürnberg and Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn. He earned his doctorate at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.

He speaks German and English.

• Nachhaltige Kreditfinanzierungen – ein Update, DB 2023, Beilage 2, 56
• Nachhaltige Kredite und Schuldscheine - aktuelle Entwicklungen, DB 2022, Beilage 2, 56 (Co-Author: Przemyslaw Lipin) 
• Sustainability-linked Loans – bisherige Erfahrungen, aktueller Stand, Entwicklungstendenzen, DB 2021, Beilage 2, 50 ( Co-Author: Neil George Weiand)