Yves Mauchle

Yves' practice focuses on debt and equity capital markets as well as financial services regulation. He regularly represents issuers and underwriters on capital market transactions such as initial public offerings (IPOs), issuances of global depositary receipts (GDRs), capital increases as well as debt issuances. He also advises domestic and international clients on public takeovers and on compliance with securities laws. Furthermore, Yves represents financial intermediaries on regulatory matters and advises on the particular challenges posed by fintech business models, including applications of the distributed ledger technology (DLT). Yves regularly publishes articles in his fields of practice. He is on the Editorial Board of CapLaw (Swiss Capital Markets Law).

Yves Mauchle is a Partner in Baker McKenzie Switzerland's Corporate Finance department and acts as Co-Head of the Firm's Swiss Capital Markets Practice Group. He joined the Firm in 2011 as a trainee lawyer and rejoined as an associate in 2016. Prior to his return, Yves worked as an associate lecturer and researcher at the University of Zurich in the Research Priority Program "Financial Market Regulation." He was awarded the Professor Walther Hug Prize and the Issekutz Prize for his dissertation in the field of bank insolvencies (resolution). Yves completed a four-month full-time secondment with UBS, further developing his knowledge in the areas of bank regulation and capital markets.

Yves' clients give him "outstanding" reviews and describe him as "very hands-on, pragmatic and knowledgeable", a "really good executor" with "deep technical understanding which he can translate into legal solutions" (Chambers, 2024), as well as "very responsive, astute, trusted and commercial" (Chambers, 2022) and "very competent, knowledgeable and easy to work with" (The Legal 500 Guide, 2020).

CMTA - The Capital Markets and Technology Association

HSG Alumni

CEIBS Alumni

Zurich Bar Association

Swiss Bar Association

University of Zurich

Dr. iur. / PhD

University of St. Gallen

M.A. HSG Accounting & Finance

University of St. Gallen

M.A. HSG Law & Economics

China Europe International Business School, Shanghai

MBA Exchange Student

University of St. Gallen

B.A. HSG Law & Economics

University of Geneva

Certificate in Transnational Law