Rashid Bahar is an expert on corporate law and financial market regulations, combining his experience as a practitioner with his academic activities. He advises financial institutions on transactional and regulatory matters. He acts on complex financings, where he advises both lenders and borrowers, and on mergers and acquisitions in the financial industry. He regularly represents clients in licensing and enforcement proceedings before the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and other authorities. He advises foreign funds and asset managers in offering their products and services in Switzerland.
Swiss and foreign financial institutions, asset managers, banks, insurance companies, as well as funds and their sponsors, trust Rashid's expertise to navigate the Swiss legal and regulatory framework. They look for his advice on a wide range of corporate, regulatory and commercial matters. His in-depth understanding of the financial industry and its regulatory framework also comes to play in mergers and acquisitions and capital market transactions in this sector.
Rashid Bahar is the vice-dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva, where he teaches corporate law, corporate restructuring, financial markets regulation, as well as law and economics. He has extensively published in corporate law and financial markets regulation. He is an editor of the leading commentary on the Federal Act on Financial Market Supervisory Authority and the Federal Act on Financial Services and the Federal Act on Financial Institutions.
Rashid is a member of the executive committee of the Center for Banking and Financial Law and the editorial committee of the Swiss Business Law Review. He was appointed as an expert member of the working group of the Federal Department of Finance responsible for drafting the Federal Act on Financial Services (FinSA) and its implementing ordinance and participated in parliamentary hearings at cantonal and federal level.
- Advised Monte Valle Partners on the acquisition of TradeXBank Ltd.
- Advised Vontobel on the placement of Tier 1 bonds to fund the acquisition of Notenstein La Roche.
- Represented a Zurich-based client.
- Banking
- Financial Services Regulatory
