MLL Legal

Banking & Finance

Reto Luthiger is a member of the firm’s banking & finance team and a Co-Head of MLL’s Industry Group DLT | Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies. He advises and represents domestic and international clients in financial markets regulatory and civil law matters as well as proceedings before FINMA, self-regulatory organisations (SROs), supervisory organisations (SOs) other authorities and courts. He has wide-ranging experience in banking, anti-money laundering, financial services, financial markets infrastructure and collective investment schemes law. Reto Luthiger acts as CEO of the Self-Regulatory Organization of Swiss Association of Investment Companies (SRO SAIC) and serves as member of the board of Vita Joint Foundation. He has sound knowledge particularly in banking, AML, FinTech, DLT/blockchain, FATCA and AEOI and made his PhD in the area of AML. He closely follows the newest developments in these fields. He is fluent in German and English.

Associate with MLL (since 2014), CEO of the Self-Regulatory Organization of the Swiss Association of Investment Companies (SRO SAIC) (since 2019), Admitted to the bar in Switzerland (2014), Head Expert Commission of the SRO SAIC (2011-2019), Junior Associate (2010–2011) and legal employee with MLL (2011-2014), Trainee with the Enforcement of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA, division Markets, section Enforcement and Market Supervision (2009-2010)

University of St. Gallen, Dr. iur. (2017), University of St. Gallen, Master in Law and Economics (2009)