Stefan Balazs

Stefan Balazs is a member of the Firm's Capital Markets Group in Stockholm and specialized in EU Prospectus and Market Abuse Regulation. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Stefan worked in the field of capital market law as a legal counsellor at the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen), focusing primarily on prospectus law. He has also conducted studies in Business Administration and Economics at the Stockholm University. Furthermore, Stefan is the only Nordic representative of the Consultative Working Group within the Corporate Finance Standing Committee at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Stefan focuses his practice mainly on Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets, and public mergers & acquisitions. Stefan has extensive transaction experience from representing both issuers and investment banks in IPOs, public capital raisings (preferential rights issues and directed issues), bond listings, MTN-programmes and representing clients in SFSA imposed Market Abuse Regulation-sanctions. · Baker McKenzie