Profile
For more than two decades, Christoph Balsiger has specialised in banking and banking regulationa. He advises and represents financial institutions in regulatory proceedings before FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and SIX Swiss Exchange. Christoph advises issuing houses, issuers and lead managers in debt, equity and equity linked capital market transactions, structuring and registration of collective investment schemes, structuring of complex derivative transactions, AMCs (actively managed certificates), structured finance transactions, EMTN, warrant and structured products programmes.
Experience
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Counselling Swiss and international institutions in legal and regulatory matters, in particular:
- Domestic and international banks and asset managers
- Domestic and international broker-dealers and issuing houses
- Swiss and international fund providers in the context of the Federal Collective Investment Schemes regulations
- Swiss or international institutions in connection with complex M&A transactions
- Debt Capital Markets in Switzerland 2020 in: Lexology Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2020, Law Business Research, 30 March 2020
- Switzerland’s New Financial Market Architecture (3rd Edition / 2019) in: NKF Publication #21
- Debt Capital Markets 2019 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2019, Law Business Research Ltd, Page 53-59
- Debt Capital Markets 2018 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2018, Law Business Research Ltd., Page 65-71
- Debt Capital Markets 2017 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2017, Law Business Research Ltd., Page 82-89
- Equity Captital Markets in Switzerland: Regulatory Overview in: Practical Law Capital Markets Global Guide 2016/17, Thomson Reuters, 2016 (16 Pages; 5379 kb)
- Debt Capital Markets 2016 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2016, Law Business Research Ltd, Page 100-106 (11 Pages; 576 kb)
- Debt Captital Markets in Switzerland: Regulatory Overview, 2015 in: Practical Law Capital Markets Global Guide 2015/16, Thomson Reuters, 2015 (12 Pages; 5693 kb)
- Debt Capital Markets 2015 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2015, Law Business Research Ltd, S. 96-102
- Debt Capital Markets 2014 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2014, Law Business Research Ltd, S. 96-103 (12 Pages; 838 kb)
1997
Admitted to the Bar, Rechtsanwalt
1995
University of Zurich, PhD, magna cum laude
Best Lawyers 2013 – 2026
Lexology Index – Switzerland 2016 – 2025
Lexology Index – Global 2020
Legal500 EMEA 2020: Recommended
Lexology Index – Global 2019
Legal500 EMEA 2018: Recommended
Chambers Global 2013 – 2017
Chambers Europe 2012 – 2017
- Swiss Bar Association
- Zurich Bar Association
2021
Of Counsel, Niederer Kraft Frey
2004
Partner, Niederer Kraft Frey
1997
Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
1992
Legal counsel in the capital market department of a major Swiss bank
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