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Olivier Stahler

Lenz & Staehelin

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Position: Partner, Co-Head of Asset Management
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Switzerland
Practice Areas:
Banking
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
French
English
Biography

Olivier Stahler is a partner in our Geneva office, specializing in banking and financial law. He acts for a wide range of Swiss and foreign financial institutions. These include banks, securities firms, fund managers and insurance companies, as well as commodities traders and industrial groups. Olivier advises his clients in connection with the granting of banking, securities firms, and asset managers licenses by the Swiss financial market supervisory authority. He is also involved in the structuring of financial products, in particular private equity and hedge funds. He acts on behalf of financial institutions and corporate borrowers in both domestic and international financing transactions. Olivier is a frequent speaker at professional conferences on banking and financial law and asset management issues.

Practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Investment funds
  • Private equity funds
Sector specialisations

  • Banking and Finance
  • Financial Services and products
  • Corporate and M&A
Bar admissions
  • Switzerland
Association memberships
  • International Bar Association (IBA)
  • Swiss Bar Association (FSA)
  • Geneva Bar Association (OdA)
Academic qualifications

 

  • University of Lausanne (lic. iur.) (1990)
  • University of Edinburgh (LL.M.) (1994)