Provided by Benjamin K. Leisinger
Global
Practice Areas
Partner in Homburger's Financial Market Regulation, Financing and Investment Products as well as Capital Markets teams. Main areas of work are financial regulatory advice (banks, securities houses, fintech, portfolio managers), offerings and listings of financial instruments (including ETPs, regulatory capital and other loss-absorbing instruments as well as equity and equity-linked securities), and financial market regulation including on the provision of financial services and stock exchange regulations.
Career
Qualified in 2008. Joined Homburger in 2006, Partner since 2018.
Professional Memberships
Zurich and Swiss Bar Associations, International Bar Association (officer in the Securities and Capital Markets Committee).
Publications
Numerous publications on financial markets regulation and securities law. Author in Commentaries on the Swiss Federal Intermediated Securities Act (protection of the bona fide purchaser and priorities, 2013), on the Swiss Code of Obligations (bonds, since 2014), the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (fundamental breach, avoidance by the buyer, avoidance by the seller, since 2014), the Swiss Financial Market Infrastructure Act (2017), the Swiss Financial Services Act (2021) and the Swiss Banking Act (2025).
Personal
Born 1980 (Kenia, Nairobi); German citizen. Graduated as lic. iur. in 2003 (magna cum laude) and as Dr. iur. in 2006 (summa cum laude) from the University of Basel, passed the Zurich bar exam in 2008, and received a Masters Degree (LL.M.) from the University of Chicago in 2012.
