Banking and Finance
The banking and finance group advises:
- Banks and securities dealers
- Investment funds, fund managers, fund management companies, representatives and investor groups
- Distributors of funds, structured products and insurance products
- Commercial and industrial companies and international organisations in their financing problems
- Independent asset managers
- Trustees, audit companies and fiduciary companies
Banking and Financial Regulations
- Authorisations for banks and securities dealers, branches and representation offices of foreign groups
- Advice on and analysis of the impact of new legislations regarding banking, stock exchange and money laundering
- Litigation / FINMA enforcement procedures
- International assistance in administrative matters
Collective Investment Schemes and other similar Structures
- Structuring, taxation and registration of Swiss investment funds as well as licensing of foreign investment funds in Switzerland
- Authorisation of custodian banks, fund management companies, fund managers and representatives of collective investment schemes
- Distribution of collective investment schemes and structured products
- Coordination in the structuring of foreign investment vehicles
- Contractual structuring (distribution, asset management, custodian bank, representation, fund management and SICAV)
Regulations on the Supervision of Private Insurance
- Regulatory status of insurance companies and insurance intermediaries, distribution of insurance products
Asset Management
- Individual and collective asset management
- Setting up of asset management companies, affiliation to SROs/SOs and advice on contractual issues
- Advice on the remuneration and the responsibility of the asset manager
- Complex financial disputes
Financing
- Bank loans, commercial financing, real estate financing and structured financing
- Pledge and other security rights
- Advice on trade finance