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Gerhard Niggli

International finance and capital markets lawyer with over 25 years experience. Partner in a major Zurich law firm. Specialist in collective investments, financial products and asset managment, both regulatory and transactional. Independent non-executive director of companies.

QUALIFICATIONS
  • Rechtsanwalt | Attorney at Law
    (eingetragen im Anwaltsregister des Kantons Zürich)
RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS
  • Chambers Global 2018 (Investment Funds), Chambers Europe 2017 (Investment Funds)
  • WHO'S WHO LEGAL Investment Management Switzerland
  • Legal Media Group - Expert Guides: Capital Markets & Investment Funds 
  • ​PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
  • Partner (2000 to 2009) Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry, Zurich, Switzerland - Partner specialised in finance. Practice covers  regulatory and transactional side of collecive investments, capital markets, derivatives and structured finance 
  • Associate Lawyer(1995 to 2000) Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Foreign Associate (1994 to 1995) Wilmer Cutler Pickering, Washington, DC, USA - Member of the investment company practice
  • Head of the Legal Department (1991 to 1993) Intrag AG, Zurich, Switzerland - Intrag AG, the former dedicated investment fund managment company of UBS that was market leader in Switzerland and maintained a strong operation in Luxembourg
  • Counsel (1989-1991) Intrag AG, Zurich, Switzerland
EDUCATION
  • LL.M, 1994 University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, USA. - Post graduate law programme
  • Lic.iur., 1987 Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland - Licentiatus Juris
AFFILIATIONS
  • Member of the Swiss and Zurich Bar Association
  • Teaching position at the Institut für Finanzdienstleistungen Zug IFZ
PERSONAL DATA
Nationality - Swiss
Languages - German , English and basic French

(c) Niggli Rechtsanwaelte, Gerhard Niggli 2010-2019