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    Laura Tscherrig

    Laura Tscherrig

    Laura Tscherrig's practice focuses on banking, finance and corporate matters with an emphasis on investment products and services and regulatory matters. She 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. Laura Tscherrig joined the Banking and Finance group in our Geneva office as an associate in 2019. Prior to joining Froriep, she worked for several years in the Banking and Finance group of a business law firm in Geneva. She graduated from the University of Fribourg in 2011 (bilingual Master of Law), was admitted to the Geneva bar in 2013 and earned an LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2017. Her working languages are French, English and German. Laura Tscherrig is member of the Geneva Bar Association and the Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA).

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    LexCast: Happy New Year From the Froriep Nexgen Incubator – Find Out What the Coming Year Has in Store for You!

    As 2020 comes to an end FRORIEP looks forward to 2021 and wonders what it holds. Listen to our specialists from across our offices in London, Zurich, Madrid, Geneva and Zug talking about what they see on FRORIEP’s horizon, what they look forward to and what legal questions they hope will be clarified in the coming year.
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    What to Know About COVID-19 Credits and Their Use in the Light of the New Federal Act on COVID-19 Credits With Joint and Several Guarantee

    As an immediate response to liquidity shortages caused by the pandemic, the Federal Council had adopted on 25 March 2020 an emergency ordinance allowing SMEs to apply for and obtain so-called COVID-19 credits in a speedy, non-bureaucratic procedure until 31 July 2020. Given its extraordinary nature, the ordinance stayed in force until 25 September 2020. In order to address all aspects of the COVID-19 credits over their entire lifespan, there was a need to legislate and incorporate the main procedural provisions of the former emergency ordinance into a formal federal act.

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