Jana Essebier

"She is a great person to work with because she has an eye for detail."

Jana Essebier is specialised in financial services law, FinTech, blockchain, insolvency and restructuring, advice for Swiss and foreign financial market participants on regulatory matters and capital markets law, support of corporate clients on a broad range of compliance issues, including representation before the competent courts and authorities, extensive expertise in dealing with derivatives, structured products and other financial instruments and innovative product platforms, such as crowdfunding.

• Successfully represented and defended the interests of the bankruptcy estate of the Switzerland based Lehman Brothers Finance AG in liquidation and its appointed liquidator PricewaterhouseCoopers AG in litigations initiated by the two single largest third-party creditors against the schedule of claims. The dispute concerned the determination of loss under a 1992 ISDA Master Agreement. 
• Longstanding partner to F10 Fintech Incubator & Accelerator
• Industrial partner of the research project "Standardization and Certification of Security Tokens" lead by the Competence Center Banking and Finance at the University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen

• Banking
• Capital markets: Derivatives
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• Restructuring and insolvency

• Banking
• Financial services
• Insurance
• Investment management
• Tech and telecoms

• International Bar Association (Officer of the Insolvency Section)
• Swiss Bar Association
• Association of German and Swiss Lawyers (DSJV)

• DAS in Banking (2014)
• Swiss Finance Institute (2013)
• Second Bar Exam in Hamburg (2005)
• University of Hamburg (Dr. iur., 2004)
• First Bar Exam in Brandenburg (2000)
• Universities of Potsdam and Geneva