Dr. Florian Louis Steiner advises on the entire range of financial market law and regulation. Foreign and domestic banks, asset managers and fund management companies, as well as family offices and UHNWI are among his clients.

He regularly advises and guides clients through the proceedings for obtaining authorization to operate in the Swiss financial market, representing them also before the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA and self-regulatory organizations. He has profound expertise in collective investment schemes regulation, including offerings and structuring of investment funds.

Florian is experienced in complex internal investigations, enforcement proceedings before FINMA, and anti-money laundering issues, stock exchange disclosure obligations, insurance regulations, and M&A transactions in the financial sector. In addition, a special emphasis of his practice lies on contracts law and complex securitization structures for a broad range of collateral, including intermediated securities (Bucheffekten). Florian holds a PhD and was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. He regularly publishes in his fields of expertise.