Andrea Huber

Practice Areas

Andrea Huber is a Partner and member of Pestalozzi’s Financial Services Group specialising in banking and regulatory matters, asset management/investment funds, fintech, insurance, internal and regulatory investigations, enforcement proceedings and white-collar crime. She regularly represents clients in proceedings before the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA, the SIX Swiss Exchange and the CDB Supervisory Board (VSB Aufsichtskommission).

Andrea was admitted to the bar in Switzerland (Zurich) in 2003 and has more than 20 years of experience in advising banks, asset managers, securities firms, investment companies and other financial services providers on all regulatory and legal aspects of their business operations, organisation and products and assists them in obtaining regulatory licenses and approvals. She advises on and establishes investment/private equity structures as well as banking and asset management services and products, serving both institutional and retail clients. She also advises fund management companies, promoters, investment banks and distributors with respect to the structuring, listing and offering of funds and structured products. In addition, Andrea provides advice on issues of institutional governance, stock exchange disclosure rules, market conduct law, regulatory compliance, KYC and AML. Andrea is an Authorized Representative of Issuers at the SIX Swiss Exchange and has been appointed Vice Chair of the International Bar Association's Banking Regulation Sub-Committee for the 2024-2025 term.

Andrea is recommended in her fields of expertise by various leading legal directories including Chambers, The Legal 500, IFLR1000 and Leaders League and has been ranked as "Leading Individual" in Banking & Finance by The Legal 500 EMEA and recognised as "highly regarded" financial services regulatory expert by IFLR1000.

Career

University of Zurich: lic.iur. (2000)

Bar admission in Switzerland (Zurich 2003)

Exchange Trader Examination, SIX Swiss Exchange, Zurich (2004)

Columbia University School of Law School, New York: LL.M. (2008)

Cornell University Graduate School, Executive Women in Leadership (2020)

Professional Memberships

Swiss Bar Association (SAV)

Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)

International Bar Association (IBA), Vice Chair of the Banking Regulation Sub-Committee (2024-2025)

New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)

Publications

https://pestalozzilaw.com/de/anwalte/andrea-huber/publications-list-file