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Key contacts
Managing Partner: Serge Fasel
Head - Banking & Finance: Frédérique Bensahel
Other Partners:  Michel Abt, Stéphanie Barreira, Jérôme Bissardon, Jean-Luc Bochatay, Olivia de Weck, Alain Moreau, Jean-Louis Tsimaratos and Marco Villa
Quick facts
Other offices

Paris

Number of lawyers and tax experts

30

Languages

French, English, German, Italian, Spanish

Key practice areas
Banking and finance
Financial and corporate
Financial services regulatory
Firm overview

Founded in 1993, FBT Attorneys-at-Law SA (FBT) is a multidisciplinary law firm based in Geneva and Paris and operating in the financial and commercial sectors as well as in niche activities, with a predominantly cross-border dimension. The firm’s organization comprises specialized and complementary legal teams focused on the following spheres of expertise: Banking & Finance, Tax, Corporate & Commercial, Litigation & Arbitration, Family Estate Law and Labour & Social Insurance. Constant exchanges among these groups translate into continual sharing of up-to-date information in each area.

FBT lawyers and tax advisers have worked in banks, multinational companies, international trust companies, family offices, notary offices and law firms, in Switzerland, France and other countries.

Key transactional practices
  • Banking and finance
  • Banking and finance litigation
  • Bank lending : Borrower side
  • Bank lending : Lender side
  • Commercial litigation
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Financial services : Non-contentious
  • Financial restructuring
  • Investment funds
  • Investment funds – Foreign
  • Litigation and Arbitration
  • Private equity funds
  • Real Estate finance and funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Tax
  • Tax litigation
Address:
Rue du 31-Décembre 47
Case Postale 6120
CH-1211 Geneva 6
Tel:+41 22 849 6040 Fax:+41 22 849 6050 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://www.fbt.ch/default.cfm?lng=2
2027 Edition
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Financial services regulatory
FBT Attorneys-at-law is a multi-disciplinary law firm founded in 1993 with offices in Geneva and Paris.   

 

Focusses / specialisms 


The firm’s practice covers banking and finance and financial services regulatory. 

The banking and finance team is experienced in providing advice to clients on all Swiss banking and financial regulations, particularly banking, securities dealers and market infrastructures, collective investment schemes and money laundering, and advises frequently on cross-border issues. The team also advises clients throughout licensing procedures and in enforcement against FINMA. 

 

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