Anita Schläpfer

Anita Schläpfer is a Partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Banking and Finance Group in Zurich. Her focus is on banking and finance law, finance transactions, asset/investment management, collective investment schemes, and financial services regulation.

• Specialist in advising Swiss and international financial institutions and corporate clients on the structuring, negotiation, and documentation of domestic and cross-border acquisition finance and syndicated-lending transactions, securitizations, other finance transactions and corporate matters
• Expertise in all questions arising in connection with asset/investment management and advice, on- and off-shore collective investment schemes and other financial products, including licensing and distribution-related issues
• Experience in providing regulatory and transactional advice for technology driven solutions and providers in the financial services industry (Fintech)

• Investment funds
• Banking and finance

• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets
• Corporate & Commercial

• lic. iur. HSG, University of St. Gallen, 1997
• LL.M. in Banking and Securities Law, Columbia University, 2002

• Regular speaking engagements at seminars and conferences
• President of the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) from September 2013 through August 2014
• Co-Chair of the Financial Products and Services Committee and Council member at the American Bar Association, Section of International Law until August 2017

• Switzerland, 2000