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Sophie Moeder is a member of Sullivan & Cromwell’s General Practice Group in the Firm’s Frankfurt office. She has been practicing U.S. securities law at S&C since she joined the Firm’s London office in 2001, focusing mainly on debt and equity capital markets transactions by non-U.S. issuers and ongoing U.S. securities law advice for non-U.S. SEC registrants.

Ms. Moeder’s capital markets work includes advising sovereign issuers, corporate clients and underwriters on SEC-registered, Rule 144A and offshore offerings of debt securities as well as in connection with the establishment of U.S. commercial paper programs. Ms. Moeder’s debt capital markets experience has a particular focus on sovereign government-backed and multi-lateral issuers in connection with their respective U.S. debt shelf registrations under Schedule B of the U.S. Securities Act.

Ms. Moeder has been involved in numerous equity offerings and stock exchange listings by German and other non-U.S. companies in a variety of industries representing both issuers and underwriters and has advised a number of German and other non-U.S. SEC registrants in connection with their SEC reporting and compliance obligations.
 

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS

Recent Debt Capital Markets (DCM) transactions
From 2020 to 2022, Dr. Moeder has advised, inter alia:

• Numerous sovereign issuers, including Council of Europe Development Bank, FMS Wertmanagement, KfW and Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank in connection with their SEC-registered debt shelf programs, including the issuance of green and social bonds.
• the joint book-running managers for the Daimler Truck Group’s multi-tranche $1.8 billion yankee bond offering and its inaugural multi-tranche $6 billion yankee bond offering and the joint bookrunners for the Daimler Truck Group’s inaugural multi-tranche C$4 billion bond offering.
• Deutsche Wohnen on (i) the establishment on its Luxembourg-listed EMTN program and the inaugural issuance and (Reg S) placement of €1 billion green bonds in two tranches due 2031 and 2041  thereunder, and (ii) its (Reg S) placement and Luxembourg listing of €1 billion fixed rate notes in two tranches due 2025 and 2030.
• Deutsche Telekom on its tender offer for two series of $ denominated fixed rate notes.
• The underwriters on Deutsche Telekom’s (i) $1.25 billion and (ii) $1.75 billion Rule 144A/Reg S offerings of fixed rate notes.

Further key DCM transactions
In addition to the transactions listed above, Dr. Moeder’s extensive experience includes advising:

• Bayer in connection with the debt refinancing of the Monsanto acquisition, which included (i) its $15 billion multi-tranche 144A senior bond offering, (ii) its €5 billion multi-tranche euro bond offering, (iii) its $6.9 billion exchange offers and consent solicitations relating to Monsanto notes and (iv) a €4 billion Rule 144A/Reg S offering of mandatory convertible bonds.
• Bayer on a $7 billion multi-tranche 144A senior bond offering in connection with the refinancing of the Merck consumer care business acquisition.
• Council of Europe Development Bank, FMS Wertmanagement, KfW and Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank on numerous SEC-registered bond offerings on an ongoing basis.
• Daimler on a $1.65 billion Rule 144A/Reg S offering of fixed rate notes.
• Deutsche Annington/Vonovia in connection with its inaugural €1.3 billion unsecured senior bond issuance (Reg S).
• The underwriters on numerous SEC-registered and Rule 144A/Reg S debt offerings by Deutsche Telekom.

Key Equity Capital Markets (ECM) transactions
Over the past decade, Dr. Moeder has advised on a number of high-profile ECM transactions, including:

• Bayer’s €6 billion rights offering and its €3 billion private placement of new shares to Temasek in connection with the refinancing of the Monsanto acquisition. 
• The IPOs/listings of Covestro, Deutsche Annington/Vonovia, Landis + Gyr, Orion Engineered Carbons and TeleColumbus.
• the listing agents and financial advisers in connection with Daimler Truck group’s spin-off from Daimler AG and the listing of Daimler Truck Holding AG on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, valuing Daimler Truck at around €23 billion.
• Deutsche Annington/Vonovia in connection with (i) its €2.3 billion rights offering, (ii) its listings of shares in connection with the takeover of GAGFAH and various capital increases.
• Novaled on its planned SEC-registered IPO/U.S. listing.
• medmix, a subsidiary of Sulzer AG, on the spin-off of Sulzer’s Applicator Systems division and the CHF 315 million Swiss IPO of the new entity.
• Paion in connection with its rights offering and various PIPE transactions.
• Porsche Automobil Holding (Porsche SE) on ECM matters related to the Porsche IPO, in connection with Porsche SE’s €10.1 billion acquisition of 25% of the ordinary voting shares of Porsche AG from Volkswagen AG.
• TeleColumbus’ €475 million rights offering.