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Alina Fancelli
Senior Associate

Alina Fancelli

Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Italian
  • French
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Alina Fancelli advises clients primarily in the areas of financial markets law, including capital markets law, as well as in contract and corporate law matters. In these fields, she also represents clients in proceedings before courts, supervisory authorities and regulatory bodies. A particular focus of her practice is on advising financial institutions and investment foundations, in particular with regard to regulatory issues, as well as on advising internationally active companies and significant shareholders of (listed) companies on corporate and capital markets law issues.

Alina Fancelli holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Law and Economics from the University of St. Gallen. She also studied at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and – as part of the THEMIS program to obtain the "Joint Certificate in International and Business Law" – at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. After completing her legal traineeship at CMS, Alina Fancelli was admitted to the Zurich Bar in 2022 and has been working as an attorney at law at CMS since then.

Publications

  • CMS Expert Guide for taking security in Switzerland, April 2025
  • Interaktion zwischen Verwaltungsrat und FINMA – was ist (insbesondere in Krisensituationen) zu beachten?, RR-VR 1/2025
  • Organe einer Vorsorgeeinrichtung haften für CHF 20 Mio. solidarisch, Jusletter, 11. November 2024
  • Investment foundations: more flexibility for general meetings of investors, 16 July 2024
  • Wandeldarlehen als Publikumseinlagen, Urteil: 6B_1355/2020 vom 14. Januar 2022, dRSK, 23. Februar 2024 (gemeinsam mit Matthias Kuert und Alexander Salamon)
  • Die Pflicht des Vermögensverwalters zur Erstellung eines Risikoprofils, Urteil: 4A_72/2020 vom 23. Oktober 2020, dRSK, 29 October 2021 (togehter with Matthias Kuert)
  • Handelsregistersperre nach Schweizerischer Zivilprozessordnung – Eine Analyse unter Berücksichtigung des modernisierten Handelsregisterrechts, Reprax 1/2021 (together with Lukas Müller)

Memberships & Roles

  • Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV)

Education

  • 2022 – Bar Admission, Canton of Zurich
  • 2019 – M.A. HSG in Law and Economics, University of St. Gallen
  • 2018 – THEMIS Exchange Semester, Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • 2017 – B.A. HSG in Law and Economics, University of St. Gallen
  • 2016 – Exchange Semester, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan

Insights by Alina

Investment foundations: more flexibility for general meetings of investors

16 Jul 2024 6 min read

CMS advised Float on the Issuance of a Tokenized Debt Instrument

06 Nov 2023 2 min read

CMS advised LLB Swiss Investment AG in relation to an investment in MCH Group AG

23 Dec 2020 2 min read

CMS advises Everbridge on the acquisition of Techwan SA

27 Aug 2020 2 min read
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