Banking and financial markets law

CMS Switzerland is your leading specialist for all legal issues specific to banking and financial markets.

Our expertise covers a wide range of topics:

• Banking supervisory law
• Banking products and other financial instruments
• Banking contract law
• Financial services law
• Financial market infrastructures
• Money laundering and other compliance issues
• Swiss Pfandbriefe bonds
• Asset managers and securities firms

We advise domestic and foreign banks, asset managers, securities firms and other financial intermediaries on licensing and other regulatory issues.

Our range of services includes:

• Licensing issues
• Capital and liquidity requirements
• Outsourcing
• Drafting and reviewing bank documents
• Conflict resolution in and out of court with clients or other banks
• Compliance requirements and assessment of individual cases
• Development and legal assessment of new banking products and other financial instruments
• Requirements of the Financial Services Act
• Cross-border banking transactions, inbound and outbound
• Prevention of money laundering
• Finance disputes