Martin Batliner

Practice Areas

Attorney-at-law; Founding partner; head of Banking and Finance; co-head of Corporate and Commercial

Practice areas: Capital Markets · Corporate Law | M&A · Fiduciary Services · Financial Service Providers · Financing · Foundations and Trusts

Career

Traineeship at the Princely Court of Justice (1992)

Associate in the law firm of Meier & Wolf, Vaduz (1993 – 1995)

Self-employed attorney-at-law (since 1995)

Member of the board of Consilia Anstalt, Vaduz (since 1995)

Deputy President of the Liechtenstein Bar Association (1999 – 2004)

Merger and formation of BWBLEGAL (2002)

President of the Committee for Refugee Issues (since 2003)

Member of the Supervisory Board of the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority (2005 – 2009)

President of the Liechtenstein Association for disabled people (since 2011)

Vice-President of the Stiftung Zukunft.li (a liberal think-tank for the social and economic development of Liechtenstein) (since 2014)

Board member of various companies in the financial industry (current)

Education:

Studies of law at the University of Fribourg (lic. iur.) (1990)

Doctor’s degree at the University of Fribourg (Dr. iur.) with the dissertation titled “Die politischen Volksrechte im Fürstentum Liechtenstein” (The Political Rights of the People in the Principality of Liechtenstein) (1993)

Bar examination (1993)

Postgraduate studies of international business law at the University of Zurich (LL.M.) (2004)

Professional Memberships

Liechtenstein Bar Association

Languages Spoken

German, English