Banking & Finance

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Provided by Bär & Karrer Ltd

The Banking & Finance team of Bär & Karrer advises their clients on all regulatory aspects of their business. Our expertise covers all financial institutions including banks, securities dealers, asset managers, investment funds, insurance companies and businesses active in the fintech sector. 

• Advice in regulatory, commercial and transactional matters
• Licensing of banks, securities dealers, insurance companies and other financial institutions
• Setting up branches and representative offices
• Fund structuring, issuance of documentation for investment schemes and products, registration of domestic and foreign investment schemes
• Representation in enforcement proceedings by regulatory authorities (e.g. FINMA or SIX Exchange Regulation)
• Acquisitions and disposals of divisions and client portfolios

We work closely with our own regulatory, litigation, restructuring and other specialists, and also with finance experts in other jurisdictions and representatives of financial institutions in Switzerland and abroad. 

• Corporate and investment grade lending
• Leveraged and acquisition finance
• Syndications
• Real estate and asset finance
• Project and infrastructure finance
• Trade, commodities and export finance
• Convertible and high-yield bonds
• Margin loans
• Securitisation and risk transfers
• Insolvency and restructuring