Practice Areas
Andrea Huber is a Partner and member of Pestalozzi’s Financial Services Group. Her practice spans banking regulatory, asset management and investment funds, fintech, insurance, internal and regulatory investigations, enforcement proceedings, and white-collar crime. She frequently represents clients in proceedings before the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), the SIX Swiss Exchange, and the CDB Supervisory Board (VSB Aufsichtskommission).
Admitted to the Swiss bar (Zurich) in 2003, Andrea brings over 20 years of extensive experience advising banks, asset managers, securities firms, investment companies, and other financial services providers. She offers comprehensive counsel on the regulatory and legal aspects of their operations, organizational frameworks, and products, as well as assistance in obtaining regulatory licenses and approvals. Andrea specializes in advising and establishing investment and private equity structures, along with banking and asset management services and products tailored to both institutional and retail clients. Her expertise extends to advising fund management companies, promoters, investment banks, and distributors on the structuring, listing, and offering of funds and structured products. In addition, Andrea provides advice on institutional governance, stock exchange disclosure rules, market conduct law, regulatory compliance, KYC and AML requirements. Andrea is an Authorized Representative of Issuers at the SIX Swiss Exchange and has been appointed Co-Chair of the International Bar Association's Banking Regulation Sub-Committee for the 2025-2026 term.
Andrea is recognized for her expertise across her practice areas, earning recommendations from legal directories such as Chambers, The Legal 500, IFLR1000 and Leaders League and has been ranked as "Leading Partner" in Banking & Finance by The Legal 500 EMEA and is acknowledged as a "highly regarded" financial services regulatory expert by IFLR1000.
Career
Partner at Pestalozzi, Cornell University Graduate School, Executive Women in Leadership (2020); Founding partner of law firm for asset managers/fintech companies, Zurich & New York (2019); Local partner at major international law firm in Zurich (2017); Columbia University School of Law School, New York: LL.M. (2008); Counsel/Senior Associate/Associate at major Swiss Law firm in Zurich (2006); Head of Ad hoc Publicity and Reporting Obligations, SIX Swiss Exchange, Exchange Trader Examination, SIX Swiss Exchange (2004); Legal Counsel SIX Swiss Exchange, Bar admission in Switzerland (Zurich) (2003); University of Zurich: lic.iur. (2000)
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)
