François Rayroux

Practice Areas

Dr. François Rayroux is partner based at our Geneva office and head of the Asset Management group. He advises a number of Swiss and international financial institutions in all banking, asset management and regulatory matters, in or outside insolvency, whether in the context of transactions or not, focusing on regulatory issues, asset management, financial services, contractual arrangements and distribution and financial products and services of all types, including in particular derivative instruments, structured products as well as digital assets.

François is considered a leading lawyer in regulatory issues, banking and asset management law in Switzerland, and has been consistently nominated by major directories as an expert in these fields, in particular by Chambers since many years as "Star Individual" in Investment Management. He is the author of the industry netting and collateral opinions of ISDA as well as of other similar industry associations. For many years, he has been involved in key regulatory and self-regulatory projects in Switzerland, namely for the Federal Finance Department and the Asset Management Association Switzerland, and has taken on senior responsibilities on the International Bar Association's Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee – acting as co-chair in both 2019 and 2020.

Career

University of Zurich (lic iur 1986, Dr iur 1993), University of Chicago Law School (LLM, 1990), Joined Lenz & Staehelin (1992), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (1998)

Professional Memberships

Co-Chairman of the Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), Admitted as an expert to the SIX Swiss Exchange for Listing Purposes, Member of the Legal and Compliance Committee of the Swiss Funds Association, Co-author of the ISDA Netting and Collateral Opinions, Legal advisor in the context of the creation and launch of the first Swiss SICAV

Personal

Languages: English, French, German, Italian