Olivier Stahler

Asset Management, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Commercial and Contracts

Olivier Stahler is a partner who specialises in banking and finance law, acting for a broad range of Swiss and foreign financial institutions. These include banks, fund managers and insurance companies, as well as commodities traders and industrial groups. Olivier gives regulatory advice in the context of the granting of licences for banks, securities houses and asset managers by the Swiss financial market supervisory authority. He is also involved in the structuring of financial products, in particular private equity and hedge funds, and acts for financial institutions and corporate borrowers in both domestic and international financing transactions. Olivier is a frequent speaker at professional conferences on banking and financial law issues, as well as investment funds.

University of Lausanne (lic. iur., 1990), Admission to the Geneva Bar (1992), University of Edinburgh (LL.M., 1994), Joined Lenz & Staehelin (1995), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (2002)

International Bar Association (IBA), Swiss Bar Association (FSA), Geneva Bar Association (OdA)

Olivier Stahler is a regular contributor to the publications of the Center for Banking and Financial Law of the University of Geneva. He is the Swiss correspondent for the Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation. Olivier Stahler was the Swiss member of the Tax and Legal Committee of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) from 2006 to 2012.