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Banking and financial law
Banking and financial regulations
- Motions for authorizations with FINMA for banks and financial institutions (portfolio managers, trustees, securities firms, etc.), affiliation to ombudsman’s offices and subordination to FINMA
- Fintech licenses
- Regulatory watch in the field of banking, stock market, anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing
- Implementation of new legislations (Financial institutions Act [FinIA], Financial services Act [FinSA], Initial Coin Offerings [ICO], Distributed ledger technology [DLT], etc)
- FINMA enforcement procedures
- International assistance in criminal and administrative matters
- Representation of clients before the regulator and supervisory organizations (SO)
- Blockchain and cryptocurrency
Asset management
- Set up of asset management companies
- Advice on contractual issues
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Ethics & Compliance
- Corporate gorvernance and organizational consulting
- Crisis management
- Audits and preparation of internal and external audits
- Legal and Compliance advice
- Setup of Compliance IT systems
- Development of contractual documents and internal directives
- Intelligence service on reputation (due diligences)
- Analysis of complex structures and transactional analysis
- Embargos and blacklist management
- Market abuses and insider trading management
- High risks relations analysis, including PEPs
- Communications to MROS
- Crossborder issues
- Tax Compliance
- Ethics (human risks management and development of effective and integrative ethics programs)
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Training
- Trainings
- Support and coaching of Legal, Compliance and Central File staff
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Mode of intervention
- From a few hours of advice, to project management, to full responsibility of the Compliance function (outsourcing), ad interim (in case of maternity leave, illness, accident) or on a helpline mode