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Dr André E. Lebrecht, LL.M.

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Dr André E. Lebrecht, LL.M.

Partner

CMS von Erlach Partners Ltd
Dreikönigstrasse 7
P.O. Box
8022 Zurich
Switzerland
Languages German, English, French

Dr André E. Lebrecht’s main focus is on legal issues in commercial matters, in particular transactions, litigation, arbitration and regulatory work, mainly but not exclusively for banks, collective investment schemes, securities dealers, asset managers, insurance companies and industrial companies.

André E. Lebrecht graduated from the University of St.Gallen (lic. iur. and Dr. iur.) and the University of Miami (LL.M.).

He is admitted to the bar in Switzerland (Zürich) and New York, N.Y. In his professional career, he served for four years as a clerk of court in Zurich, Switzerland two years thereof at the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of the Canton of Zürich.

As an attorney he worked for law firms in Miami and New York and for a commercial law firm in Zurich, 11 years thereof as a partner. He joined our company in 2008 as a partner.

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Memberships & Roles

  • Zürcher Anwaltsverband (ZAV)
  • Schweizerischer Anwaltsverband (SAV)
  • International Bar Association
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Expertise

20/01/2016
CMS Guide to Private Place­ment of Funds
When im­ple­ment­ing the Al­tern­at­ive In­vest­ment Fund Man­agers Dir­ect­ive ("AM­FMD"), some EU States have tightened or severely re­stric­ted their private place­ment re­gimes, which is im­port­ant when non-EU man­agers...
Publication
Feb 2018
CMS Guide to Pass­port­ing
The EU Com­mis­sion pro­moted pass­port­ing rights as one of the key be­ne­fits for hedge, private equity, real es­tate and oth­er al­tern­at­ive in­vest­ment fund man­agers au­thor­ised un­der the Al­tern­at­ive In­vest­ment...
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23 December 2020
CMS ad­vised LLB Swiss In­vest­ment AG in re­la­tion to an in­vest­ment in MCH...
LLB Swiss In­vest­ment AG is the fund man­age­ment com­pany of AMG Sub­stan­zwerte Sch­weiz Fund, a fund man­aged by AMG Fonds­ver­wal­tung AG. AMG Sub­stan­zwerte Sch­weiz Fund is in­ves­ted, inter alia, in MCH Group...
Deal (News) Corporate / M&A
01 December 2020
UCITS pass­port­ing in Switzer­land
1. Dis­tri­bu­tion of EEA UCITS Schemes Switzer­land is not a Mem­ber State of the EU and is thus not sub­ject to the UCITS Dir­ect­ive and its re­spect­ive rules. Switzer­land has its own­lower-al­phaset of rules...
Expert Guide Funds
01 December 2020
AIFM pass­port­ing in Switzer­land
1. Dis­tri­bu­tion of AIFs Switzer­land is not a Mem­ber State of the EU and is thus not sub­ject to the AIFMD and its re­spect­ive rules. Switzer­land has its own­lower-al­phaset of rules, laid down in the Fin­an­cial...
Expert Guide Funds
01 December 2020
Private place­ment rules and law in Switzer­land
Sum­mary of private place­ment pro­vi­sions for fund in­terests (if ap­plic­able) Switzer­land is not a Mem­ber State of the EU and is thus not sub­ject to the AIFMD and the re­spect­ive rules. Switzer­land has its...
Expert Guide Funds
25 November 2020
Pop­u­lar in­vest­ment vehicles in Switzer­land
In­vest­ment vehicle Im­mob­i­li­en-Ak­tiengesell­schaf­tAn­lages­tif­tun­gVer­trag­lich­er An­lage­fonds 1. Form Ak­tiengesell­schaft Cor­por­ate – Swiss Stock Cor­por­a­tion An­lages­tif­tung Cor­por­ate – Swiss Found­a­tion...
Expert Guide Funds
Comparable
14 November 2019
CMS Guide to Pass­port­ing (AIF)
The pur­pose of this guide is to provide a broad over­view of the key ele­ments of pass­port­ing reg­u­la­tions ap­plic­able to EEA AIFs in the coun­tries covered in this guide. The guide makes no claims as to com­plete­ness...
Guide Banking & Finance
14 November 2019
CMS Guide to Private Place­ment of Funds
When im­ple­ment­ing the Al­tern­at­ive In­vest­ment Fund Man­agers Dir­ect­ive (“AIFMD”), some EU States have tightened or severely re­stric­ted their private place­ment re­gimes, which is im­port­ant when non-EU...
Guide
14 November 2019
CMS Guide to Pass­port­ing (UCITS)
The pur­pose of this guide is to provide a broad over­view of the key ele­ments of pass­port­ing reg­u­la­tions ap­plic­able to EEA UCITS Scheme in the coun­tries covered in this guide. The guide makes no claims...
Guide Banking & Finance
21 August 2019
CMS - Fo­cus­ing on Funds – Lux­em­bourg Brexit
This Fo­cus­ing on Funds is an alert with re­spect to the Brexit re­mind­ers is­sued by the Lux­em­bourg reg­u­lat­or ("CSSF") to all firms cur­rently au­thor­ised un­der CRD, Mi­FID II, PSD 2 or EMD in the United King­dom...
Newsletter
24/07/2019
CMS - Fo­cus­ing on Funds - More than a token ges­ture
This Fo­cus­ing on Funds looks at the evolving hot top­ic of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) and tech­no­logy for the funds sec­tor. Crypto-as­sets, par­tic­u­larly “se­cur­ity tokens” and dis­trib­uted ledger tech­no­logy...
Publication
16 April 2019
CMS Switzer­land fur­ther im­proves its rank­ing with The Leg­al 500
CMS Switzer­land fur­ther im­proves its rank­ing with The Leg­al 500 We are de­lighted to an­nounce that CMS Switzer­land is be­ing re­com­men­ded in 12 cat­egor­ies in this year's edi­tion of The Leg­al 500, pub­lished...
News Life Sciences & Healthcare
07 March 2019
Top rank­ings for CMS Switzer­land by Cham­bers and Part­ners
Top rank­ings for CMS Switzer­land by Cham­bers and Part­ners CMS Switzer­land is de­lighted to an­nounce that 14 law­yers across 10 prac­tice areas have been re­com­men­ded in the 2019 edi­tion of Cham­bers and...
News Competition & EU
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