Banking & Finance
Banking and Financial Law
Khovrin International Law Office advises clients on a full range of banking and finance matters, in particular on matters related to commercial banking, structured finance, derivatives, financial services, regulatory and private banking. In particular, we assist financial service providers in obtaining authorisations from Swiss regulatory authorities such as the Swiss Financial Markets Supervisory Authority FINMA, advise clients on the governance and organisational requirements as well as on the regulatory, notification and disclosure obligations of licenced financial service providers. We advise financial institutions on the rules of conduct, suitability, categorisation of clients and cost transparency requirements. We also assist clients during litigations, investigations and enforcement proceedings before Swiss regulatory authorities and courts.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Khovrin International Law Office advises clients on all types of corporate transactions, in particular on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, on both the buyer’s and the seller’s side. This primarily includes legal due diligence, corporate structuring of the transaction, as well as negotiating, drafting and coordinating transaction documents. We offer advisory and support services to clients in matters related to mergers, demergers, private acquisitions, private equity investments, including venture capital, public tender offers, including hostile takeovers and takeover defences, and joint ventures.
Investment
Khovrin International Law Office advises clients on various matters related to investment deals. Such services include legal due diligence of investment targets, corporate structuring of investment deals, corporate governance structures, advising on contributions to share capital and to assets as well as structuring and advising on loan finance. Our services also include structuring, drafting and negotiating all of the related investment documentation, drafting and negotiating security documentation (pledge, surety, independent guarantees, etc.), as well as assisting during the closing of transactions.
Capital Markets
Khovrin International Law Office acts as counsel in all aspects of domestic and cross-border capital market transactions. We advise clients on matters related to initial and secondary public offerings (IPOs/SPOs), share issues upon establishment and restructuring, additional issues of shares under private subscription and share repurchases and offers. We also assist client in setting up of Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) for financing acquisitions and we advise clients during corporate bankruptcy and insolvency procedures.
Digital Economy
Digital currencies and the blockchain technology are unique due to their decentralized nature but are still subject to existing regulatory requirements. Khovrin International Law Office advises clients on a wide range of questions related to this rapidly evolving field, such as the legal structuring of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and the Initial Token Offering (ITO), selection of the digital capital market jurisdictions, the token structuring and the best methods of converting cryptocurrencies into fiat currencies, as well as the drafting of legal documents and general advisory services related to the regulations of cryptocurrencies and to the anti-money launderuing regulations. Khovrin International Law Office also advises clients on the use of cryptocurrencies in the different business models and the legal structuring of crypto funding.
White Collar Crime & Compliance
Khovrin International Law Office has a significant experience in advising clients on a broad range of business crime matters, such as anti-money laundering regulations, market conduct, insider dealing, data protection and disclosure requirements, criminal liability of members of a given company, and criminal liability in insolvency situations. We also advise clients and coordinate the work of local attorneys-at-law in various jurisdictions in domestic and cross-border criminal proceedings, mainly related to the localisation, freezing and recovering of the proceeds of a financial crime.
Hedge Funds & FX
Hedge Funds & FX law is a set of enforceable rules to regulate behavior of the main actors in the hedge funds and FX industry. Our legal experts developed a special legal analysis technology to objectively spread the risks between the investors and the brokers. For instance, we believe that a mere disclaimer of the high risk of losing their capital for private investors is illegal in terms of shifting a risk to the private investor. We based our analysis on the so called 5th dimension (5D) position taking technique. Our approach is that brokering with private investors who are lacking the advanced neo-cortex capabilities must be legal only when the risks are properly spread.