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Florian specialises in banking & regulatory, financial markets regulation, capital market transactions and commercial law.
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Florian advises and represents financial institutions in regulatory proceedings before the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA. He also advises on book-entry securities, especially with a view to security arrangements. He litigates in his fields of expertise.
Florian’s experience includes:
- Swiss law advice to issuers of collective investment schemes on prospectus requirements and distribution
- Representing asset managers of collective investment schemes in the context of FINMA regulatory supervision
- Legal opinion on validity and enforceability of security arrangements
- Advising a non-Swiss bank on setting-up a branch in Switzerland
- Switzerland’s New Financial Market Architecture (3rd Edition / 2019) in: NKF Publication #21
- FINTECH: Switzerland is gearing up in: Banking Law Newsletter August 2017, International Bar Association Legal Practice Division, p. 26-28
- How Switzerland responds to «FinTech» (and the key takeaways for lawmakers internationally) Online Publication, www.regulation-y.com, 5 May 2017
- Zur Revision des Bucheffektengesetzes (regarding the amendments of the federal intermediated securities act) Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht 2016, pp. 336 – 348 (13 Pages; 183kb)
- Praxis zum Finanzmarktaufsichtsrecht (practice within the financial market supervisory law) Presentation held at the St. Gallen Conference for Financial Market Regulation 2012 (November 6, 2012), Executive School of Management, Technology and Law (ES-HSG), University of St. Gallen, Conference venue: Convention Point of the SIX Swiss Exchange, Zurich
- Commentary of article 35 of the federal intermediated securities act in: Heinrich Honsell/Nedim Peter Vogt/Rolf Watter (Publishers), Basel Commentary Securities Law, Basle 2012
- Besicherung nach dem Bucheffektengesetz (secured transactions after the federal intermediated securities act) PhD Thesis St. Gallen 2012
2017
Harvard Law School, Visiting Researcher
2014
Admitted to the Bar, Rechtsanwalt
2012
University of St. Gallen, Dr. iur. HSG
2008
University of St. Gallen, M.A. HSG in Law
2006
University of St. Gallen, B.A. HSG in Law
- Zurich Bar Association
- Swiss Bar Association
- Swiss Jurists’ Association
- HSG-Alumni
2020
Senior Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2017
Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2015
Associate with a Business Law Firm in Zurich
2013
Clerk with District Court of Uster
2011
Junior Associate with a Business Law Firm in Zurich
2008
Research and Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. iur. Urs Bertschinger, Academic Chair for Private Law, Corporate Law and Financial Markets Law, University of St. Gallen
2007
Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. iur. Philippe Mastronardi, Academic Chair for Constitutional Law, University of St. Gallen
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English