Prof. Dr. Rashid Bahar

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 & 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 & acquisitions and capital market transactions in this sector.

Rashid 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 of Financial Services (FinSA) and its implementing ordinance and participated in parliamentary hearings at cantonal and federal level.