The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) is one of the regulatory bodies that has taken specific steps with respect to ICOs.  In its recently published booklet, Regulatory Aspects of ICOs in Switzerland, Baker McKenzie’s Zurich office gives an overview of the regulation of ICOs in Switzerland.

Author

Yves Mauchle is a Partner in Baker McKenzie Switzerland's Corporate Finance department and acts as Co-Head of the Firm's Swiss Capital Markets Practice Group. He joined the Firm in 2011 as a trainee lawyer and rejoined as an associate in 2016. Prior to his return, Yves worked as an associate lecturer and researcher at the University of Zurich in the Research Priority Program "Financial Market Regulation." He was awarded the Professor Walther Hug Prize and the Issekutz Prize for his dissertation in the field of bank insolvencies (resolution). Yves completed a four-month full-time secondment with UBS, further developing his knowledge in the areas of bank regulation and capital markets.