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    Jérôme Pidoux

    Jérôme Pidoux

    Jérôme Pidoux's practice focuses on transactional, commercial, banking, finance and regulatory matters. He regularly advises clients on M&A and financing transactions. He further advises asset managers, collective investment schemes, securities dealers and other financial institutions in relation to their activities in Switzerland, their licensing requirements, as well as the offering of financial instruments and services. He joined our London office in 2014. Prior to joining Froriep, he worked for several years in the transactional and commercial group of a business law firm in Geneva. He is recommended in banking and finance by The Legal 500 2018. He graduated from the University of Fribourg in 2004 and earned an LL.M. from New York University, as well as a Certificate in Law and Business from Stern School of Business, in 2010. He was admitted to the Geneva bar in 2009 (ranked first) and to the New York bar in 2013. His working languages are French and English, and he has a good command of German.

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    Topics: Corporate & M&A  Banking & Finance  Insolvency & Restructuring  Financial Services 

    Measures to Assist Swiss Companies During COVID-19: A New Temporary Insolvency and Restructuring Regime

    On 16 April 2020, the Federal Council passed a special ordinance in relation to the Swiss insolvency and restructuring regime to protect companies who ran into financial difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (the COVID-19 Insolvency Ordinance). The COVID-19 Insolvency Ordinance entered into force on 20 April 2020 and will remain effective for a period of six months.
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    28 March 2019 | Jérôme Pidoux | Dunja Koch
    Topics: Financial Services 

    Marketing foreign collective investment schemes to Swiss investors - changes brought by the new Financial Services Act

    In this blog, which is part of a series of briefings on the new Financial Services Act (FinSA, FIDLEG (German) and LSFin (French)) and the Financial Institutions Act (FinIA, FINIG (German) and LEFin (French)) that will come into force in 2020, we will look at certain changes which the new regulatory regime will bring to the cross-border offering of collective investment schemes into Switzerland.
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