Tarek Houdrouge

Tarek Houdrouge is Co-Head of our Banking and Finance Group in Geneva and a Partner in our Mergers and Acquisitions Group (ranked Band 1 by Legal 500). He specializes in banking and finance, national and crossborder M&A, corporate law and commercial contracts, including corporate restructurings, corporate governance matters, finance transactions, private equity and venture capital.

• Regular assistance to clients, including multinational groups of companies, on corporate law and corporate governance
• Swiss counsel to Procter & Gamble International Operations SA in the sales of Select Specialty P&G Beauty brands to Coty Inc. and of the Duracell business to Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
• Counsel to Swiss and foreign banks and financial institutions in cross-border activities, including distribution of financial products
• Advises Swiss and foreign banks and financial institutions in all regulatory matters and in lending transactions
• Assisted banks and investors in acquisitions/disposals of banks and clients' portfolios and in merger projects in the banking sector

• Banking
• Financial services regulatory
• Capital markets

• Banking & Finance
• Corporate & Commercial
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Capital Markets
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Blockchain-Technologies & FinTech
• Financial Services
• Insurance
• Sanctions Group

• lic. iur., University of Lausanne, 2003
• Master of Law, European and International Economic Law, University of Lausanne, 2004
• LL.M., Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, 2010

• Member of various professional organizations, such as the Geneva and Swiss Bar Associations, AIJA, CEDIDAC and AGDA

• Switzerland, 2006
• New York, 2011