Frederique Bensahel
Partner, FBT Avocats
Frédérique Bensahel is considered as a leading lawyer in banking and financial services in Switzerland. She is the head of the Banking and Finance group of FBT. Frédérique Bensahel advises a number of Swiss and foreign banks, companies active in asset management, securities dealing or intermediation as well as Swiss and foreign funds and fund managers. Frédérique has been nominated by various professional organizations in her quality as expert in banking and financial law, notably by Chambers in 2010 as a "leading individual in Investment Funds and in Private Asset Management" and by Legal500 on her banking expertise. Frédérique also has a broad experience with private clients and has in this respect been nominated by Citywealth as a leading Swiss lawyer. She is a member of STEP. Frédérique Bensahel is a frequent speaker at professional conferences on banking and financial issues.
Caroline Clemetson
Partner, Schellenberg Wittmer
Caroline Clemetson is Head of Schellenberg Wittmer’s Banking and Finance Group in Geneva, and is also an active partner in the Banking and Finance Group in Zurich. Her focus is on banking and finance law, in particular financial services and financial regulation, asset management, collective investment schemes and other investment products, distribution of financial products, derivatives, trade finance, pension funds as well as insurance and insurance brokerage regulation. Caroline Clemetson is also very experienced in corporate and transactional matters.
Caroline Clemetson is an authorized representative at the SIX Swiss Exchange and a Member of the Specialist Committee Legal & Compliance of the Swiss Funds and Asset Management Association (SFAMA).
With extensive experience in finance matters, Caroline is recognized as highly recommended practitioner in Investment Funds by Chambers Global. According to quotes from Chambers Global, sources say: «In addition to her technical skills, she has an excellent capacity for communicating the important aspects of a matter to the client honestly, clearly and precisely.» According to Who's Who Legal, the «wonderful» Caroline Clemetson is praised by clients and peers for her «phenomenal technical abilities» and «gifted handling of complicated procedures». B
efore joining Schellenberg Wittmer as a partner in 2014, Caroline Clemetson worked for the Swiss Financial Markets Supervisory Authority FINMA (2006–2014) where she was Head of the Investment Products and Distribution Department within the Markets Division. In that function, she was responsible for the entire approval and authorisation processes for all types of Swiss and foreign collective investment schemes and related institutions such as fund management companies, asset managers, custodian banks, representatives of foreign collective investment schemes and distributors in Switzerland. She was also responsible for all aspects of distribution in Switzerland and the registration of insurance brokers in Switzerland and related issues. C
aroline Clemetson graduated from the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich in 2001 and was admitted to the bar in Switzerland in 2003. In 2006, she earned an LL.M. from Columbia University in the City of New York after working several years in another business Law Firm in Geneva.
Sarah Crabb
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Managing Associate, Simmons & Simmons
Sarah is a Managing Associate in the Financial Services group in London. She is an investment funds specialist and her practice includes the establishment, structuring, maintenance and restructuring of both hedge and private funds (liquid and illiquid assets) in a variety of jurisdictions. Sarah acts for some of the largest and best known managers in the UK and Europe. She also regularly advises asset management clients on the impact of regulatory issues.
Sarah is a member of the firm’s Brexit team.
Stephanie Hodara El Bez
Partner, Altenburger
Stéphanie Hodara is Co-Head of the Banking & Finance Team. She advises her clients and represents them in court, specifically in the areas of banking and finance law as well as collective investment schemes. Furthermore, she has longstanding experience in contract matters as well as corporate, immigration, labor and real estate law.
Yvonne Lenoir Gehl
Partner, BRP Bizzozero & Partners
Holder of a license to practice law and an LL.M. (College of Europe, Bruges), Ms Lenoir Gehl has 15 years experience in the field of asset management and investments funds in Switzerland and the EU. She acquired her experience in a leading Swiss law firm, at the Luxembourg and Belgian management companies of a large Belgian financial group and during her years as Senior Regulatory Advisor at the European Fund and Asset Management Association.
At BRP, Yvonne is in charge of Swiss and foreign regulations applicable to asset managers and their products.
Anne Simond
CEO, ARM Swiss Representatives SA
Anne has extensive experience in legal, compliance and product development for alternative asset managers as well as legal and structuring expertise for derivative products in investment banking. She has held various senior legal positions with such firms as EIM, UBP, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley and was recently the project lead for obtaining a FINMA asset management license for a local firm. Anne is a Qualified English solicitor (Hogan Lovells) and has a Master of Law from the Université des Sciences Sociales in Toulouse. She has been based in Switzerland since 2003 and is also a founding member of the Geneva Chapter of 100 Women in Hedge Funds.
