Profile
Yannick Wettstein specializes in the regulation of financial services and the structuring, issuance, distribution and listing of investment funds, structured products and other financial instruments. He advises Swiss and foreign banks, investment funds and their management companies, asset managers, investment advisors, distributors and pension funds on the Swiss regulatory and civil law requirements applicable to their organization, services and products. Yannick frequently represents clients in regulatory proceedings before the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), the Occupational Pension Supervisory Commission (OPSC) and SIX Swiss Exchange.
Experience
Yannick’s areas of expertise include the legal structuring of retail and institutional funds, with a particular focus on real estate and alternative investment funds, the regulation of cross-border financial services and the requirements for the offering of financial products in and from Switzerland. Yannick represents clients in the context of licensing, approval and notification proceedings vis-à-vis FINMA. Yannick specialises in pension fund regulation and he advises Swiss and international fund promotors on sales efforts to Swiss pension funds and on the setting-up of tailor-made fund structures for Swiss pension funds. Yannick is a recognised representative of SIX Swiss Exchange and advises in listings of ETFs and structured products.
- Debt Capital Markets in Switzerland 2020 in: Lexology Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2020, Law Business Research, 30 March 2020
- Switzerland’s New Financial Market Architecture (3rd Edition / 2019) in: NKF Publication #21
- Debt Capital Markets 2019 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2019, Law Business Research Ltd, Page 53-59
- Die Zukunft des Vertriebsvertrages unter FIDLEG/FINIG Referat an der Tagung “Entwicklungen im Recht der kollektiven Kapitalanlagen XIII” der Universität St. Gallen, 7. Dezember 2018
- Zum Anbieten kollektiver Kapitalanlagen unter dem FIDLEG – und ausgewählte Aspekte der dabei einzuhaltenden Verhaltenspflichten in: SZW – Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Finanzmarktrecht, 2/2018, S. 131-146
- Debt Capital Markets 2017 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2017, Law Business Research Ltd., Page 82-89
- Switzerland’s new financial market architecture (2nd edition / May 2016) NKF-Schriftenreihe Publikation # 20 (146 Pages; 850 kb)
- Switzerland’s New Financial Market Architecture NKF Schriftenreihe Publikation #18 (100 Pages; 723 kb)
- Rechtsfragen um Kostenanlastungssteuern in: ASA – Archiv für Schweizerisches Abgaberecht 78, Nr. 9, 2009/2010, S. 537-568 (32 pages; 194 kb)
- Debt Capital Markets 2016 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2016, Law Business Research Ltd, Page 100-106 (11 Pages; 576 kb)
- Client Alert September 2015 (Continued Appointment of Swiss Representative and Paying Agent once Distribution to Qualified investors in Switzerland Terminates?) Online Publication, 25 September 2015
- Debt capital markets in Switzerland: Regulatory overview in: Practical Law Capital Markets Global Guide 2015/16, Thomson Reuters, 2015 (12 Pages; 5693 kb)
- Debt Capital Markets 2015 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2015, Law Business Research Ltd, S. 96-102
- Client alert December 2014 (asset managers of foreign collective investment schemes: Expiration of deadline to apply for FINMA license) Online Publication, 19 December 2014 (2 Pages; 402 kb)
- Client alert November 2014 (new rules for the distribution of foreign collective investment schemes to qualified investors) Online Publication, 17 November 2014 (2 Pages; 423 kb)
- Client alert September 2014 (new rules for the distribution of structured products in Switzerland) Online Publication, 30 September 2014 (2 Pages; 414 kb)
- Client alert August 2014 (an introduction to the new financial institutions act [FINIG]) Online Publication, 8 August 2014 (2 Pages; 404 kb)
- Client alert July 2014 (new rules for the distribution of collective investment schemes in Switzerland) Online Publication, 1 July 2014 (3 Pages; 459 kb)
- Debt Capital Markets 2014 in: Getting the Deal Through – Debt Capital Markets 2014, Law Business Research Ltd, S. 96-103 (12 Pages; 838 kb)
- Zurich Bar Association
- Swiss Bar Association
- IBA International Bar Association
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