Dr Vaïk Müller
Attorney at Law | Head of Banking & Finance | Co-Head of FinTech & Blockchain, CMS Switzerland
Languages
- French
- English
- German
Vaïk Müller's main areas of focus are banking, regulatory, financial services and products, including funds and derivatives, as well as compliance and regulatory matters, including in the field of FinTech and blockchain. He heads the Banking and Finance Practice Groups of CMS Geneva and Co-Head the FinTech & Blockchain of CMS Switzerland. He has a long track record and extensive experience of advising Swiss and foreign financial institutions, such as funds, asset managers, banks and securities firms and market infrastructures on complex local and cross-border issues, including by representing financial institutions vis-à-vis authorities, in particular the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA).
Vaïk Müller is also regularly involved in corporate, commercial and financing transactions, acting for arrangers, underwriters, lenders, borrowers and sponsors in domestic and multijurisdictional financing transactions (including acquisition, leveraged and syndicated financings).
He is the author of several publications on financial regulations and a regular speaker at conferences and was co-moderator of the specialised forum on banking law (regulatory) of the Geneva Bar Association from March 2019 to February 2026.
He teaches banking and financial law as part of the tax specialist and chartered accountant training programmes run by EXPERT Suisse and at IFAGE, within the ‘Banking and Compliance: An Introduction to Contractual, Prudential, Tax and Criminal Risks’ module. Since 2025, he has also been lecturing on the University of Geneva’s Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Digital Finance Law, covering digital infrastructure and the regulatory risks associated with DEXs (decentralised exchanges).
