Financial Services & Regulatory

Your bank is facing FINMA enforcement proceedings or wants to return its banking licence? Are you threatened with enforcement proceedings? We represent you with due diligence in difficult situations with FINMA, but, if necessary, also against FINMA before the Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Supreme Court.

We will also assist your institution with the voluntary release from FINMA supervision. Since we do not accept FINMA investigation mandates, we can act freely. We also specialise in banks in distress.

A wide range of banks, securities dealers, asset managers, fund managers, insurance companies, pension funds, leasing companies and other financial service providers benefit from our advice on contractual and regulatory matters, including FINSA & FINIA, and on obtaining FINMA licences.

Due to our experience in financial services law, we regularly conduct litigation, also for clients of banks.

Your Team

Partner

Dr. Albrecht Langhart

Counsel

Dr. Florian von Meiss

Associate

Edi Bollinger

Partner

Roger Büchi

Partner

Matthias Hirschle

Our competencies at a glance:

Banks in distress
Banking law and contracts
Bank internal investigations
Advising and representing bank customers
Employment ban
Issues on the BVG (law on occupational pension schemes) and BVV (occupational retirement, survivors’ and disability pension schemes)
Corporate governance
Confiscation procedure
Enforcement procedure
Factoring
FATCA, AIA (automatic exchange of information)
FIDLEG, FINIG, FinfraG
Financial services law
FINMA authorisations
Guarantee procedure
Global custody agreements
Leasing
Outsourcing
Pension funds
Brochures
Retrocessions
Return of bank licences
Swap mortgages
Asset management contracts
Insurance supervision law