About
Provided by FBT Attorneys at Law
Categories of clients:
- 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
Areas of specialisation :
- Banking and Financial Regulations
- Collective Investment Schemes and other similar strutures
- Regulations on the Supervision of Private Insurance
- Asset Management
- Financing
Types of work handled :
- Pre-Enforcement and Enforcement proceedings (FINMA)
- Banking & Finance Litigation
- Company Mergers and Mergers by Absorption
- Licence under the new Financial Institutions Act
- Banks' Due Diligence
- Cross-border banking activities
Recent work highlights :
- Appointment by FINMA to investigate the activities of a Swiss company
- Advice to a borrower on a syndicated credit facility agreement
- Assist bank clients and portfolio managers in financial civil litigations
- Assist a portfolio manager in licensing process under the Financial Institutions Act (FinIA)
- Advice with regard to ESG
- Verify the annual compliance of a Swiss bank in its role as custodian of foreign investment funds
- Represent a bank in a complex multiparty set of proceedings in Ireland
- Advice to a bank in a transaction involving the OFAC sanction issues
