FINTECH

Our multi-disciplinary legal specialists provide advice and assistance to our clients on all aspects relating to the FinTech sector: regulation, investment, financing, technological innovation and data exploitation.

We advise start-ups, investors, technology companies and financial institutions on their FinTech activities. Our expertise in all relevant areas of law, our knowledge of the ever-changing regulatory environment and our regular contacts with the relevant authorities enable us to help our clients successfully navigate the various stages in the development of a FinTech company.

We offer our clients assistance in the following areas:

• Advice on regulatory and compliance matters
• Analysis of compliance with applicable legal and administrative provisions, especially anti-money laundering requirements
• FINMA FinTech authorisations (FinTech licence)
• FINMA sandbox regime and exemption requests from FINMA supervision
• Advice and assistance in regulatory matters, in particular compliance and risk management
• Drafting and analysis of corporate and contractual documentation
• Advice on financing
• Digital assets, custody solutions, trading platforms
• Distributed ledger technology (DLT, blockchain), smart contracts
• Tokenisation and securities custody solutions
• Protection of intellectual property assets and data
• Drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements and partnerships
• Employment law, including non-competition and non-solicitation clauses, participation plans, and others
• Taxation of goods and services