Prof. Dr. Rashid Bahar, LL.M.
Partner | Attorney at Law (Switzerland)
T. +41 58 510 92 91 | +41 79 607 62 57
rashid.bahar@advestra.ch
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Rashid is an expert on corporate law and financial market regulations combining his experience as a practitioner with his academic activities. He advises financial institutions on transactional and regulatory matters. He acts on complex financings, where he advises both lenders and borrowers, and on mergers & acquisitions in the financial industry. He regularly represents clients in licensing and enforcement proceedings before the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA and other authorities. He advises foreign funds and asset managers in offering their products and services in Switzerland.
Swiss and foreign financial institutions, asset managers, banks, insurance companies as well as funds and their sponsors trust Rashid's expertise to navigate the Swiss legal and regulatory framework. They look for his advice on a wide range of corporate, regulatory and commercial matters. His in depth understanding of the financial industry and its regulatory framework also comes to play in mergers & acquisitions and capital market transactions in this sector.
Rashid is the vice-dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva, where he teaches corporate law, corporate restructuring, financial markets regulation as well as law and economics. He has extensively published in corporate law and financial markets regulation. He is an editor of the leading commentary on the Federal Act on Financial Market Supervisory Authority and the Federal Act on Financial Services and the Federal Act on Financial Institutions.
Rashid is a member of the executive committee of the Center for Banking and Financial Law and the editorial committee of the Swiss Business Law Review. He was appointed as an expert member of the working group of the Federal Department of Finance responsible for drafting the Federal Act of Financial Services (FinSA) and its implementing ordinance and participated in parliamentary hearings at cantonal and federal level.
Rashid is ranked in banking and finance by Chambers Legal, in banking and FinTech by Who's Who Legal and IFLR 1000 2019 and 2020 consider him as a as highly regarded in Switzerland.
Regulatory
- Represented an international investment bank in the licensing of its branch in Zurich
- Successfully represented a pillar 3a foundation and a foundation for vested benefits before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court on the basis that the corporate governance rules applicable to pension funds should not apply to such foundations
- Represented various banks in FINMA enforcement proceedings in connection with unvoluntary data leaks
- Represented a bank in enforcement proceedings in connection serious breaches of anti-money laundering regulations following the Panama Paper leaks
- Represented several banks in enforcement proceeding related to serious breaches in connection with cross-border U.S. business and the U.S. Program
- Represented financial institutions and other market participants in criminal administrative proceedings conducted by the Federal Department of Finance in connection with breaches of the duties on disclosure of substantial shareholdings
- Represented various financial institutions in connection with proceedings to obtain the release from prudential supervision and/or the liquidation of Swiss entities
M&A
- Advising Monte Valle Partners on the acquisition of TradeXBank Ltd.
- Advising Outbrain Inc. on the acquisition of video intelligence AG
- Advising Falcon Private AG on the sale of its shares in Falcon Private Wealth Limited to ONE swiss bank AG
- Advising XP Inc. on the sale of its Swiss private investment and wealth management business
- Advising Buyers on the Acquisition of Berenberg Bank
- Advising Bank Leumi le Israel on the acquisition of Banque Safdié SA
- Successfully represented a minority shareholder in the takeover of Harwanne Compagnie de participations industrielles et financieres SA by MMA Vie SA where the Takeover Board accepted for the first time to reconsider its decision on the appropriateness of a price offered by a bidder.
Capital Markets
- Advising Vontobel on the Placement of CHF 450 Million Tier 1 Bonds to fund the acquisition of Notenstein La Roche
- Advising Banque Cantonale de Genève on the Placement of CHF 135 Million Additional Tier 1 Subordinated Bonds
- Advising Cembra Money Bank on the Financing of the Acquisition of cashgate
- Advising HQLAx on the first Live Securities Lending Transaction Using R3's Corda Blockchain Platform
- Advising the Underwriters on the CHF 4.7 Billion Rights Offering by Credit Suisse Group AG
- Partner at Advestra (since 2021)
- Partner (2012-2020) and associate at Bär & Karrer (2005-2012)
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. (2007)
- University of Geneva, Dr. iur. (2003), Walther Hug prize
- Associate at a Swiss law firm (2001-2005)
- Admitted to the Bar of the canton of Geneva (2000, ranked second best on the exam) and Zurich (2005)
- University of Geneva, D.E.S. en droit (2000)
- Trainee at a Swiss law firm (1998-2000)
- University of Geneva, licence en droit (1998), Huet du Pavillion prize for the highest G.P.A.
- Associate Professor at the University of Geneva (2009-present)
- Guest Lecturer at the University of Fribourg (2012)
- Guest Lecturer at the University of Geneva (2008)
- Senior Research Assistant at the Center for Banking and Finance Law (2004-2005)
- Harvard Law School, Visiting Researcher (2004)
- Teaching and Research Assistant to prof. Rita Trigo Trindade (2001-2003)
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
- Association Genevoise de Droit des Affaires
- Schweizerische Juristen Verein/Société suisse des juristes (SJV/SSJ)
Academic publications
- Rashid Bahar
Commentary of articles 626 II and III, 732-735d CO and articles 120-141 LIMF
in: Pierre Tercier/Rita Trigo Trindade/Damiano Canapa (eds.), Commentaire Romand, CO II, 3rd edition, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2024
- Rashid Bahar
Commentary of articles 57-59, article 68, article 71 FIDLEG
in: Rashid Bahar/Rolf Watter (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzdienstleistungsgesetz/Finanzinsitutsgesetz, Helbling & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2023
- Rashid Bahar
- Noemi Delli Colli
Commentary of article 4-5, articles 17-18 and article 20
in: Rashid Bahar/Rolf Watter (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzdienstleistungsgesetz/Finanzinsitutsgesetz, Helbling & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2023
- Rashid Bahar
- Annette Weber
Commentary of article 2, 3 lit. a item 1, 2, 5, 7, lit. f-i and articles 35-39
in: Rashid Bahar/Rolf Watter (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzdienstleistungsgesetz/Finanzinsitutsgesetz, Helbling & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2023
- Rashid Bahar
Commentary of articles 35 and 39
in: Alexandre Richa/Philipp Fischer (eds.), Commentaire romand: Loi sur les services financiers Helbling & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2022
- Rashid Bahar
Devoirs en cas de surendettement
in: Damiano Canapa/Isabelle Chabloz/Olivier Hari/Rita Trigo Trindade (eds) Modernisation du droit de la société anonyme du 19 juin 2020, Stämpfli, Bern 2024, p. 305
- Rashid Bahar
Nouveautés en matière de lutte contre les rémunérations abusives – Champ d’application, mandats externe et rapport de rémunération
in: Damiano Canapa/Isabelle Chabloz/Olivier Hari/Rita Trigo Trindade (eds) Modernisation du droit de la société anonyme, 19 June 2020, Stämpfli, Bern 2024, p. 97
- Rashid Bahar
Responsabilité sociétale des entreprises en droit de la société anonyme
in: entre devoir des organes et nouvelle technique de réglementation, ZSR, 139, 2020
- Rashid Bahar
- Bianca Nedwed
Grenzüberschreitendes Angebot von Finanzdienstleistungen und -produkten? Die Eidgenossenschaft schlägt zurück
in: SZW, 6/2019
- Rashid Bahar
- Peter Hsu
- Daniel Flühmann
Commentary on art. 93-96 (derivatives trading: general provisions), art. 112-115 (trading via trading venues and organised trading facilities), art. 161-162 (interoperability agreements, derivatives trading) and art. 164 (referendum and commencement) FMIA, as well as on art. 32-34 FINMASA (declaratory ruling and substitute performance, prohibition from practising a profession, prohibition from performing an activity, publication of the supervisory ruling)
in: Rolf Watter/Rashid Bahar (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzmarktaufsichtsgesetz und Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz, 3rd ed., Basel 2019
- Rashid Bahar
- Eric Stupp
Commentary on art. 60 (recognition of foreign central counterparties), art. 81-82 (payment systems: definition, duties)
in: Rolf Watter/Rashid Bahar (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzmarktaufsichtsgesetz und Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz, 3rd ed., Basel 2019
- Rashid Bahar
- Roland Truffer
Commentary on art. 53-59 (procedure in the event of the default of a participant)
in: Rolf Watter/Rashid Bahar (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzmarktaufsichtsgesetz und Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz, 3rd ed., Basel 2019
- Rashid Bahar
- Ria Gurtner
Commentary on art. 48-49 (definition of central counterparty, collateral)
in: Rolf Watter/Rashid Bahar (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzmarktaufsichtsgesetz und Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz, 3rd ed., Basel 2019
- Rashid Bahar
- Martin Peyer
Commentary on art. 2 lit. a no. 3, 6, lit. c, g and h (definitions), art. 24 (recovery and resolution plan)
in: Rolf Watter/Rashid Bahar (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzmarktaufsichtsgesetz und Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz, 3rd ed., Basel 2019
- Rashid Bahar
TBTF: Do increased capital requirements, bail-in powers and resolution authority solve the problem?
in: SZW, 6/2018
- Rashid Bahar
Standards for Market Actors
in: Thomas Cottier/Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law, Elgar, Cheltenham (UK)/Northhampton, MA (USA) 2017
- Rashid Bahar
The Federal Act on Financial Market Infrastructures – Impact on Market Participants
in: Thomas U. Reutter/Thomas Werlen (eds.), Kapitalmarkt – Recht und Transaktionen XI, Zurich/Basel/Geneva 2017
- Rashid Bahar
Commentary on art. 95 para. 3 Constitution (professional activities in the private sector), art. 1-33 Ordinance agains Excessive Compensation (whole ordinance) and art. 120-141 FMIA (notification duty, public takeover offers)
in: Pierre Tercier/Marc Amstutz/Rita Trigo Trindade (eds.), Commentaire Romand, CO II, 2nd ed., Basel 2017
- Rashid Bahar
- Martin Peyer
Commentary on art. 654-657 CO (preference shares, participation certificates, dividend rights certificates)
in: Lukas Handschin (ed.), Zürcher Kommentar, Obligationenrecht, Die Aktiengesellschaft, Allgemeine Bestimmungen (Art. 620-659b OR), 2nd ed., Zurich 2016
- Rashid Bahar
Derivative Trading under the Federal Act on Financial Markets Infrastructure
in: GesKR, 4/2015
- Rashid Bahar
- Xenia Karametaxa
- Joël Tawil
Disclosure Duties: How does Swiss Law protect minority shareholders?
in: Rapports suisses présentés au XIXème Congrès international droit comparé / Swiss Reports Presented at the XIXth international Congress of Comparative Law, Zurich/Geneva/Basel 2014
- Rashid Bahar
- Martin Peyer
Commentary on art. 7-10a (system-relevant banks), art. 52 (transitional provisions)
in: Rolf Watter/Christoph Winzeler/Nedim Peter Vogt/Thomas Bauer (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Bankengesetz, Basel 2013
- Rashid Bahar
- Eric Stupp
Commentary on art. 1, art. 1bis (scope of the act) and 53, 56 final provisions 1971, 1994, 1999, 2003, transitional provisions 2011
in: Rolf Watter/Christoph Winzeler/Nedim Peter Vogt/Thomas Bauer (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Bankengesetz, Basel 2013
- Rashid Bahar
Taking conflict of interest in corporate law seriously – direct and indirect rules addressing the agency problem
in: Anne Peters/Lukas Handschin (eds.), Conflict of Interest in Global, Public and Corporate Governance, Cambridge (UK) 2012
- Rashid Bahar
Conditions générales: a time for change
in: Luc Thévenoz/Christian Bovet (eds,), Journée 2011 de droit bancaire et financier, Zurich 2012
- Rashid Bahar
- Martin Peyer
Commentary on art. 25 (control agreement), art. 26 (agreement with the custodian) and art. 30-32 (priorities, power to realise collateral, notice and accounts) FISA
in: Heinrich Honsell/Nedim Peter Vogt/Rolf Watter (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Wertpapierrecht, Basel 2012
- Rashid Bahar
Commentary on art. 39-45 Audit Oversight Act (criminal provisions)
in: Rolf Watter/Urs Bertschinger (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Revisionsrecht, Basel 2011
- Rashid Bahar
- Yaël Benmenni
La responsabilité de la banque dépositaire: quis custodiet sub-custodians?
in: Luc Thévenoz/Christian Bovet (eds.), Journée de droit bancaire et financier 2009, Geneva/Zurich/Basel 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Scission au sens strict et substituts fonctionnels: réflexion théoriques
in: Henry Peter/Nicolas Dutoit (eds.), Les restructurations en droit des sociétés, du travail et international privé, Geneva/Zurich/Basel 2010
- Rashid Bahar
- Peter Hsu
- Daniel Flühmann
- Silvia Renninger
Commentary on art. 32-34 FINMASA (declaratory ruling and substitute performance, prohibition from practising a profession, prohibition from performing an activity, publication of the supervisory ruling)
in: Rolf Watter/Nedim Peter Vogt, (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum BEHG und FINMAG, Basel 2010
- Rashid Bahar
- Eric Stupp
Commentary on art. 11 SESTA (rules of conduct)
in: Rolf Watter/Nedim Peter Vogt, (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum BEHG und FINMAG, Basel 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Entre Charybde et Scylla: le prêt d'assainissement judiciaire, une solution aux problèmes juridiques et économiques des sociétés en difficulté
in: GesKR, 3/2009
- Rashid Bahar
Le capital social: à quand la révolution? – Questions choisies autour des révisions des règles sur le capital
in: ZSR 128, 2009
- Rashid Bahar
Dynamique des ordres juridiques: droit comparé, cascades et effets de mode
in: Rita Trigo Trindade/Henry Peter/Christian Bovet (eds.), Economie Environnement Ethique: De la responsabilité sociale et sociétale, Liber Amicorum Anne Petitpierre-Sauvin, Geneva/Zurich/Basel 2009
- Rashid Bahar
Le transfert de patrimoine professionnel: une contribution helvétique au droit des sociétés luxembourgeois
in: Le nouveau droit luxembourgeois des société, Brussels 2008
- Rashid Bahar
Commentary on art. 22-33 SESTA (public takeover offers)
in: Pierre Tercier/Marc Amstutz (eds.), Commentaire Romand, CO II, Basel 2008
- Rashid Bahar
- Rita Trigo Trindade
Revision des Verantwortlichkeitsrechts: Differenzierte Solidarhaftung der Revisionsstelle und übrige Änderungen
in: GesKR special issue, 2008
- Rashid Bahar
Executive Compensation: Is Disclosure Enough?
in: Luc Thévenoz/Rashid Bahar (eds.), Conflicts of Interests: Corporate Governance and Financial Markets, Kluwer International, London/the Hague/etc. 2007
- Rashid Bahar
- Luc Thévenoz
Conflicts of Interest: Disclosure, Incentives, and the Market
in: Luc Thévenoz/Rashid Bahar (eds.), Conflicts of Interests: Corporate Governance and Financial Markets, Kluwer Law International, London/The Hague/etc. 2007
- Rashid Bahar
Security Interests and Reorganization: A Clash of Institutions
in: Henry Peter/Nicolas Jeandin/Justin Killbourne (eds.), The Challenges of Insolvency Law Reform in the 21st Century, Zurich 2006
- Rashid Bahar
La démocratie comme principe directeur du droit des sociétés anonymes: mythes et réalités
in: La démocratie comme idée directrice de l'ordre juridique suisse, Zurich 2005
- Rashid Bahar
- Eric Stupp
Commentary on art. 1, 1bis (scope of the act), art. 52-54 (transitional and final provisions) and 53, 56, final provisions 1971, 1994, 1999, 2003, transitional provisions Banking Act
in: Rolf Watter/Nedim Peter Vogt/Thomas Bauer/Christoph Winzeler (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Bankengesetz, Basel 2005
- Rashid Bahar
Commentary on art. 29-52 (demerger of legal entities), art. 69-75 (transfer of assets) and art. 105-107 (review of eqity and membership rights, appealability of mergers, demergers, transformations and transfers of assets by members) Merger Act, as well as art. 181 (assignment of assets or a business with assets and liabilities), art. 727c (audit requirements in a limited audit) and art. 936a (entry in the commercial register, business identification number) CO
in: Henry Peter/Rita Trigo Trindade (eds.), Commentaire de la loi sur la fusion, Zurich 2005
- Rashid Bahar
Les créanciers dans l'assainissement: abandon, subordination et conversion de créances
in: ZSR 124, 2005
- Rashid Bahar
Le rôle et les devoirs du conseil d'administration lors des fusions et acquisitions : une approche systématique
Geneva/Basel/Zurich 2004
- Rashid Bahar
- Rita Trigo Trindade
Droits des actionnaires minoritaires en Suisse
in: Rapports suisses présentés aux XVIème Congrès international de droit comparé/Swiss Reports Presented at the XVIth International Congress of Comparative Law, Zurich 2002
- Rashid Bahar
- Henry Peter
Rachat et option de rachat par une société de ses propres actions (en droit des sociétés)
in: Luc Thévenoz (ed.), Journée de droit bancaire et financier 199, Bern 2000
Newsletters and trade publications
- Rashid Bahar
Switzerland's New Federal Act on Financial Market Infrastructure – Impact on Cross-Border Derivates Transactions
in: World Securities Law Report, Volume 21, 12th ed., 2015
- Rashid Bahar
- Peter Hsu
Fintech rules eased
in: IFLR Magazine, September 2017
- Rashid Bahar
Règles de comportement selon la LSFin : La FINMA ouvre une audition sur la nouvelle circulaire
in: CDBF.ch/1350, 24 May 2024
- Rashid Bahar
Stabilité des banques : Un rapport du Conseil fédéral impressionnant mais encore trop vague
in: CDBF.ch/1343, 3 May 2024
- Rashid Bahar
Transparence sur les questions non financières · La nature juridique du vote de l'assemblée générale, un faux débat ?
in: CDBF.ch/1330, 27 February 2024
- Rashid Bahar
Le L-QIF arrive!: Entrée en vigueur de la révision de la LPCC et de l’OPCC au 1er mars 2024
in: CDBF.ch/1328, 22 February 2024
- Rashid Bahar
- Annette Weber
- Valérie Bayard
in: Lexology Getting The Deal Through Swiss 2023 M&A Practice Guide, 2023
- Rashid Bahar
- Sandro Fehlmann
in: Chambers Alternative Funds 2023 Global Practice Guide, 2023
- Rashid Bahar
- Daniel Raun
in: Chambers Corporate M&A 2022 Global Practice Guide, 2022
- Rashid Bahar
- Rashid Bahar
- Annette Weber
- Valérie Bayard
Shareholder Activism in Switzerland
in: Lexology Getting The Deal Through Swiss 2022 M&A Practice Guide, 2022
- Rashid Bahar
- Sandro Fehlmann
in: Chambers Alternative Funds Global Practice, 2022
- Rashid Bahar
- Thomas Reutter
in: CapLaw, 48/2021
- Rashid Bahar
Bourses et plates-formes de négociation : La Suisse ouvre l’accès au marché des actions suisses aux plates-formes de négociation britanniques
in: CDBF.ch/1173, 5 February 2021
- Rashid Bahar
- Daniel Raun
in: Chambers Corporate M&A 2021 Global Practice Guide, 2021
- Rashid Bahar
- Peter Hsu
Switzerland Banking Regulation
in: Global Legal Group, 7th Edition, 2020
- Rashid Bahar
Conflicts of Laws on the Distributed Ledger and Negotiable Instruments
in: CapLaw, 1/2020
- Rashid Bahar
- Martin Peyer
Alternative Investment Funds 2020 – Switzerland
in: The International Comparative Legal Guide, 8th Edition, 2020
- Rashid Bahar
- Martin Peyer
Alternative Funds: Switzerland
in: Chambers Global Practice Guides, 2019
- Rashid Bahar
- Urs Kägi
New prospectus requirements: a corporate issuer's perspective
in: IFLR, December 2018/January 2019
- Rashid Bahar
- Eric Stupp
- Daniel Flühmann
- Peter Hsu
Prudent legislating, Swiss-style
in: IFLR Magazine, (Supplement Fintech Special Focus 2018), June 2018
- Rashid Bahar
Something Old, Something New: The Supervision of Financial Institutions under the Federal Act on Financial Institutions – FinIA Update
in: CapLaw, 5/2018
- Rashid Bahar
- Martin Peyer
Outsourcing: FINMA Publishes a New Circular 2018/3 on Outsourcing for Banks and Insurance companies
in: CapLaw, 2/2018
- Rashid Bahar
- Phyllis Scholl
GAFI-Meldungen der wirtschaftlich berechtigten Person
in: Schulthess Manager Handbuch 2018/2019, Zurich/Basel/Geneva 2018
- Rashid Bahar
Switzerland
in: Bryan Chegwidden/Michelle Moran (eds.), Getting the Deal Through, Fund Management, 2017
- Rashid Bahar
Something old, something new and some things change – FinIA Update Disclosure of delegated voting rights
in: CapLaw, 1/2017
- Rashid Bahar
Resolution stays
in: IFLR, April 2016
- Rashid Bahar
Something Old, Something New: The Supervision of Financial Intermediaries under the Draft Federal Act on Financial Institutions
in: CapLaw, 1/2016
- Rashid Bahar
- Peter Hsu
New reporting obligations
in: IFLR Magazine, July/August 2015
- Rashid Bahar
Regulation of Financial Market Infrastructures under the preliminary draft for a Financial Market Infrastructure Act
in: CapLaw, 2/2014
- Rashid Bahar
- Michael Trippel
Review of Crowdfunding Regulation – Switzerland
in: European Crowdfunding Network (eds.), 2014
- Rashid Bahar
- Thomas Reutter
Reshaping the future - An analysis of the draft bills of a Financial Services Act (FIDLEG) and Financial Institutions Act (FINIG)
in: IFLR, 2014
- Rashid Bahar
Market Abuse and Takeover Law – A New Start under Swiss Law
in: CapLaw, 1/2013
- Rashid Bahar
Retrocessions (suite mais pas fin)La FINMA intervient
in: https://cdbf.ch/850/, article nr. 850, 7 Dezember 2012
- Rashid Bahar
Produits structurés. Publicité et responsabilité?
in: https://cdbf.ch/839/, article nr. 839, 1 November 2012
- Rashid Bahar
Accounting to Clients for Trailer Fees and Inducements – The Decision of the Swiss Supreme Court 4A_127/2012 and 4A_141/2012 of 30 October 2012 and its Regulatory Consequences
in: CapLaw, 5/2012
- Rashid Bahar
Bourse suisse : Nouveau droit de la publicité événementielle : raison et sensibilité
in: CDBF.ch/1343, 6 May 2011
- Rashid Bahar
- Elsa Muhaxheri
Rachat d'actions propres: Exonération de programme dépassant 10% du capital-actions
in: https://cdbf.ch/711/, article nr. 711, 24 November 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Scale and Scope of the Regulation of Share Buybacks
in: CapLaw, 6/2010
- Rashid Bahar
A New Take on Liquidity – The Swiss Takeover Board issues a New Circular n° 2 on Liquidity
in: CapLaw, 2/2010
- Rashid Bahar
Opting-Out is In Again: the Takeover Board Relaxes its Practice on Opting-Out From the Mandatory Bid
in: CapLaw, 4/2010
- Rashid Bahar
Offre publique d'acquisition: Circulaire COPA n° 2 – Liquidité au sens du droit des OPA
in: https://cdbf.ch/678/, article nr. 678, 31 March 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Foreign Securities and the Act on Book-Entry Securities
in: CapLaw, 6/2009
- Rashid Bahar
Gestion de fortune: entre constructeurs et distributeurs
in: Denaris, 4/2009
- Rashid Bahar
Offre publique d'acquisition: Communication n°4 de la COPA – ou de l'importance de la distinction entre offres volontaires et offres obligatoires
in: https://cdbf.ch/624/, article nr. 624, 24 February 2009
- Rashid Bahar
Offre publique d'acquisition: Constatation d'une action de concert, intérêt digne de protection, intérêt juridique actuel et procédure administrative
in: https://cdbf.ch/619/, article nr. 619, 20 January 2009
- Rashid Bahar
Acting in Concert and Judicial Review of Takeover Law – Note on a Recent Decision of the Federal Administrative Court
in: CapLaw, 1/2009
- Rashid Bahar
Offre publique d'acquisition: Nouvelles OOPA et OBVM-FINMA dès le 1er janvier 2009
in: https://cdbf.ch/615/, article nr. 615, 20 November 2008
- Rashid Bahar
- Eric Stupp
Leerverkäufe als Sündenbock der Finanzkrise: Die Spekulation auf fallende Aktienkurse im Visier der Börsenaufsichtsbehörden
in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 10 October 2008
- Rashid Bahar
Publicité des participations: Clarification des dérogations en faveur des banques et négociants en valeurs mobilières
in: https://cdbf.ch/589/, article nr. 589, 29 April 2008
- Rashid Bahar
Droit de la société anonyme: Le Conseil fédéral publie le Message sur la révision du droit de la SA
in: https://cdbf.ch/567/, article nr. 567, 24 January 2008
- Rashid Bahar
- Eric Stupp
New Swiss Disclosure Rules
in: Bankers' Law 2 (1), 2008
- Rashid Bahar
Publicité événementielle: Tous les changements au sein de la direction doivent être annoncés
in: http://cms.unige.ch/droit/cdbf, article nr. 546, 1 October 2007
- Rashid Bahar
Gestion de fortune: Le TF cautionne une interprétation économique des instructions sur les placements
in: https://cdbf.ch/545/, article nr. 545, 28 September 2007
- Rashid Bahar
OPA: Le Tribunal fédéral refuse la qualité de partie à l'actionnaire minoritaire
in: https://cdbf.ch/525/, article nr. 515, 4 May 2007
- Rashid Bahar
Dans la gestion de fortune, les rétrocessions reviennent au client
in: https://cdbf.ch/446/, article nr. 446, 22 June 2006, reprinted in Le Temps, 10 July 2006
- Rashid Bahar
Offre publique d'acquisition obligatoire: Droit de l'actionnaire minoritaire de rejeter une recommandation et délimitation de la contre-prestation acceptable
in: https://cdbf.ch/438/, article nr. 438, 16 May 2006
- Rashid Bahar
Révision du droit des sociétés anonymes: innovations intéressantes et incertitudes pour la place financière suisse
in: https://cdbf.ch/396/, article nr. 396, 16 December 2005
- Rashid Bahar
Indemnité de départ dans le contexte d'OPA hostile: mesure de défense inadmissible?
in: https://cdbf.ch/346/, article nr. 346, 25 September 2005
- Rashid Bahar
Circulaire CFB sur l'obligation des négociants de déclarer les transactions boursières
in: https://cdbf.ch/279/, article nr. 279, 6 December 2004
- Rashid Bahar
Publicité des rémunérations: sanction pour la violation de la Directive Corporate Governance
in: https://cdbf.ch/269/, article nr. 269, 25 November 2004
- Rashid Bahar
Vers un assouplissement de la notion d'action de concert: réflexions sur la recommandation Kühne & Nagel International AG
in: https://cdbf.ch/253/, article nr. 253, 25 October 2004
- Rashid Bahar
Publicité événementielle: obligation de prendre des mesures pour réagir immédiatement en cas de fuite
https://cdbf.ch/244/, article nr. 244, 5 October 2004
Speaking Engagements
- Rashid Bahar
- Katia Villard
- Adrien Alberini
- Fabien Liégeoise
Journée de droit bancaire et financier 2024
co-organiser, Geneva, 14 November 2024
- Rashid Bahar
Vers un Senior Managers Regime helvétique
Journée de droit bancaire et financier 2024, Geneva, 14 november 2024
- Rashid Bahar
- Christoph Bühler
- Karin Müller
- Markus Vischer
Kapitalband: Erfahrungen, Empfehlungen aus der Praxis und Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten
Schulthess Forum: SZW-Tagung 2024 (co-organiser), 24 September 2024
- Rashid Bahar
Vote de l’assemblée générale - consultatif ou contraignant ?
Journée rapports de durabilité et Gouvernance, 13 September 2024
- Rashid Bahar
Kapitalstruktur der Banken nach dem Credit Suisse AT1 Write Down
Kapitalmarkt – Recht und Transaktionen XIX, 28 november 2023
- Rashid Bahar
Transactions avec des parties liées (related-party transactions)
Schulthess Forum Journée RSDA du droit de la SA 2023, 27 September 2023
- Rashid Bahar
- Jacques Iffland
- Isabelle Chabloz
Schulthess Forum Journée RSDA du droit de la SA 2023
co-organiser, 27 September 2023
- Rashid Bahar
ESG vor Gericht: Soft Law oder Haftungsgrundlage?
in: GesKR-Tagung zum neuen Aktienrecht, 1 June 2023
- Rashid Bahar
- Damiano Canapa
- Isabelle Chabloz
- Oliver Hari
- Rita Trigo Trindade
Journées sur la révision du droit de la société anonyme
co-organiser, Fribourg, 3 November 2022, Geneva, 15 november 2022, Lausanne, 17 November 2022, Neuchâtel, 22 November 2022
- Rashid Bahar
Neuerungen im Vergütungsrecht und der nicht-finanziellen Berichterstattung
in: Schulthess Forum: SZW-Tagung zum Aktienrecht, Zurich, 14 September 2022
- Rashid Bahar
Ausschussbildung und interne Organisation
11. deutsch-österreichisch-schweizerisches Symposium zum Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht „Aufsichtsrat – Verwaltungsrat – Beirat“, Hamburg, 2-3 June 2022
- Rashid Bahar
Les nouvelles règles sur la publicité événementielle
Journée de droit bancaire et financier, 19 October 2021
- Rashid Bahar
Transparenz der Aktionäre, Abschaffung der Inhaberaktien
in: GesKR-Tagung zum neuen Aktienrecht (online), 21 October 2020
- Rashid Bahar
Banque et gestionnaire de fortune: qui surveille qui?
in: Journée de droit bancaire et financier, Geneva, 15 October 2020
- Rashid Bahar
Das uneinheitliche Begriffsverständnis des wirtschaftlich Berechtigten, Quo Vadis – Finanzplatz Schweiz?
Europa Institut Zurich (EIZ), 23 September 2020
- Rashid Bahar
Global update on legal innovations and regulatory developments, FinTech, RegTech and CryptoAssets
in: ERA Europäische Rechtsakademie/Academy of European Law, Trier, 26 March 2020
- Rashid Bahar
LEFIN, Nouveau régime d'autorisation et de surveillances des gestionnaires de fortune – Approfondissements
Ateliers Pratiques Fund Academy, Geneva, 23 January 2020
- Rashid Bahar
FINMA at the time of the FinSA and FinIA
Association of International Business Lawyers (AIBL), Geneva, 20 January 2020
- Rashid Bahar
Trustee Regulation in Switzerland, Swiss and Liechtenstein STEP Federation
4th Alpine Conference, Interlaken, 16-17 January 2020
- Rashid Bahar
Grenzüberschreitendes Angebot von Finanzdienstleistungen und –produkten in die Schweiz: Die Eidgenossenschaft schlägt zurück, Quo Vadis – Finanzplatz Schweiz ? Neuerungen beim Kunden- und Anlegerschutz im Finanzmarktrecht
in: SZW/University of Zurich, Zurich, 28 August 2019
- Rashid Bahar
The Regulation of Trustees
STEP – Technical Event, Zurich, 14 May 2019
- Rashid Bahar
Kundensegmentierung: zwischen Standardisierung und Differenzierung der Finanzdienstleistungen
GesKR-Tagung zum FIDLEG Prospektrecht – Verhaltensregeln – Rechtsschutz, Zurich, 3 April 2019
- Rashid Bahar
The Regulation of Trustees: a comparison with Guernsey and the BVI
STEP – Technical Event, Geneva, 6 November 2018
- Rashid Bahar
TBTF: Do increased capital requirements, bail-in powers and resolution authority solve the problem?, Quo Vadis – Finanzplatz Schweiz? 10 Jahre nach der Finanzkrise: Wo stehen die Betroffenen heute?
SZW/University of Zurich, Zurich, 23 August 2018
- Rashid Bahar
Sûretés sur titres intermédiés et la réalisation des sûretés sur instruments financiers, Sûretés mobilières: développements récents
Association genevoise de droit des affaires, Geneva, 4 October 2017
- Rashid Bahar
- Benedict Foëx
Sûretés mobilières: développements récents
Association genevoise de droit des affaires (co-organiser), Geneva, 4 October 2017
- Rashid Bahar
Kundensegmentierung
GesKR-Tagung: FIDLEG und FINIG, Zurich, 2 December 2016
- Rashid Bahar
Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz in der praktischen Umsetzung – Ein Erfahrungsbericht
St. Galler Tagung zur Finanzmarktregulierung, Zurich, 22 November 2016
- Rashid Bahar
Transparence (et gouvernance), des produits, Journée de droit bancaire et financier 2016
University of Geneva, Geneva, 14 November 2016
- Rashid Bahar
- Thomas Kadner Graziano
Le droit comparé et le droit suisse
Annual Seminar of the école doctorale en droit de la CUSO (co-organiser), 27 - 28 October 2016
- Rashid Bahar
Switzerland, an example for the United Kingdom after the Brexit?
in: 60th General Assembly of the Association Europeenne d'Etudes, Juridiques et Fiscales, Warsaw, 11 June 2016
- Rashid Bahar
Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz – Wesentliche Neuerungen, Kapitalmarkt – Recht und Transaktionen XI
Europa Institut Zurich (EIZ), 26 November 2015
- Rashid Bahar
La créance d'actionnaires, La société au fil du temps, Journée de Lausanne
6ème Séminaire de formation, Fondation Notariat Suisse, Lausanne, 8 September 2015
- Rashid Bahar
FinfraG/FIDLEG/FINIG – Handlungsbedarf für Banken
St. Galler Bankrechtstag, Zurich, 10 June 2015
- Rashid Bahar
Le Projet de la Loi fédérale sur l'infrastructure des marchés financiers (LIMF)
Sixième journée franco-suisses de droit bancaire, Zurich, 20 February 2015
- Rashid Bahar
Update Corporate and Banking Law
Association of International Business Lawyers (AIBL), Geneva, 30 January 2015
- Rashid Bahar
Conflits d'intérêts en droit suisse: Identification, prévention, gestion et sanctions, Conflits d'intérêts dans les sociétés commerciales
Association genevoise de droit des affaires, Geneva, 12 November 2014
- Rashid Bahar
Information sur les produits
in: FIDLEG: l'avant-projet de loi sur les services financiers, Centre de droit bancaire et financier, Geneva, 1 October 2014
- Rashid Bahar
- Christian Bovet
- Luc Thévenoz
FIDLEG: l'avant-projet de loi sur les services financiers
Centre de droit bancaire et financier (co-organiser), Geneva, 1 October 2014
- Rashid Bahar
Valuation and Consideration in Corporate Restructurings, The 2004 Merger Act: where do we stand one Decade after
University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, 7 May 2014
- Rashid Bahar
Les garanties du vendeur
Association genevoise du droit des affaires, Contrat de vente d'actions: prix, conditions et garanties, Geneva, 5 March 2014
- Rashid Bahar
La rémunération des organes dirigeants: actualité législative, Journée du conseil d'administration
wiss Board Institute, Geneva, 31 January 2013
- Rashid Bahar
Conditions générales des banques: time for a change, Journée de droit bancaire et financier 2012
Centre de droit bancaire et financier, Geneva, 17 November 2012
- Rashid Bahar
Wahrung der Anteilsrechte, Das Fusionsgesetz – nach dem 8. Jahr
University of Fribourg, 11 September 2012
- Rashid Bahar
Droit des autres sociétés, association et fondation, XIII Marathon de formation
Ordre des Avocats de Genève, Geneva, 28 April 2012
- Rashid Bahar
- Rita Trigo Trindade
L'égalité de traitement dans l'ordre juridique: fondements et perspectives
Séminaire annuel du 3ème cycle romand en droit (co-organiser), Geneva, 1-2 December 2011
- Rashid Bahar
- Eric Stupp
Pfandrechtsklauseln in Allg. Geschäftsbedingungen von Banken: Gültigkeit, Umfang, Verwertung
St. Galler Bankrechtstag, Zurich, 24 June 2011
- Rashid Bahar
Prospekthaftpflicht, Entwicklungen im Finanzmarktrecht VIII
Europa Institut Zurich (EIZ), 11 May 2011
- Rashid Bahar
Droit des autres sociétés, association et fondation, XI Marathon de formation
Ordre des Avocats de Genève, Geneva, 7 May 2011
- Rashid Bahar
Actionnaires & managers: qui contrôle les sociétés cotées?
Round table organised by the le Geneva Finance Research Institute and the Centre de droit bancaire et financier, Geneva, 18 November 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Transferts de contrats dans la scission et le transfert de patrimoine – réflexions théoriques et solutions pratiques
Séminaire: Pratique des restructurations: la loi sur la fusion à l'épreuve du temps, Lausanne, 5 October 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Le transfert des contrats et la LFus
Symposium Pratique contractuelle 2010, University of Fribourg, 23 September 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Haftungsrisiken aus Anlegerinformationen börsenkotierter Gesellschaften
St. Galler Gesellschaftsrechtstag, Zurich, 15 June 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Taking Conflicts of Interest Seriously: Why Should Swiss Corporate Law Explicitly Address Conflicts of Interest?
Interdisciplinary Conference on Conflict of Interest, Basel, 7 - 8 May 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Droit des autres sociétés, association et fondation, IX Marathon de formation
Ordre des Avocats de Genève, Geneva, 24 April 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Transaction Agreements dans le cadre d'offres publiques d'acquisition amicales
in: Journée 2010 de droit de l'entreprise, CEDIDAC, Lausanne, 3 February 2010
- Rashid Bahar
Obligations et responsabilité de la banque dépositaire
in: Journée 2009 de droit bancaire et financier, Centre de droit bancaire et financier, Geneva, 11 November 2009
- Rashid Bahar
Kapitalgeschützte Produkte und Absolut Return Anlagefonds: Werbung, Versprechung und Haftung
Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) Training Seminar Level 2 of the Verband Schweizerischer Vermögensverwalter (VSV), Zurich, 28 October 2009
- Rashid Bahar
Scissions au sens strict et substituts fonctionnels: une totale liberté de choix?
University of Geneva, 3 June 2009
- Rashid Bahar
Conflicts of Interest in Investment Banking
Law and Economics Workshop, University of Tilburg (NL), 23 May 2008
- Rashid Bahar
- with Eric Stupp
Derivative Finanzinstrumente und börsenrechtliche Offenlegung
Neue Entwicklungen im Finanzmarktrecht V , Europa Institut Zurich (EIZ), 6 May 2008
- Rashid Bahar
Petite et grande révisions du droit de la société anonyme: questions choisies autour du capital, Nouveautés en droit des personnes morales
Association genevoise du droit des affaires, Geneva, 13 March 2008
- Rashid Bahar
La SA unipersonnelle
Colloque sur le Nouveau droit des sociétés luxembourgeois (panelist), University of Luxemburg, 7 December 2007
- Rashid Bahar
Le Transfert de patrimoine professionnel: une Contribution helvétique au droit des sociétés luxembourgeois
Colloque sur le Nouveau droit des sociétés luxembourgeois, University of Luxemburg, 7 December 2007
- Rashid Bahar
Kreditsicherheiten und Structured Finance: Ausgewählte Themen aus der Praxis, Sicherheiten für Handelsfinanzierungen
International Bar Association – Banking Law Regional Subcommittee, Germany/Switzerland/Austria, Vienna, 9 November 2007
- Rashid Bahar
Executive Compensation
Conflicts of Interest & the Duty of Loyalty (panelist), University of Geneva, 3 March 2006
- Rashid Bahar
Is Disclosure Enough?
Conflicts of Interest & the Duty of Loyalty, University of Geneva, 3 March 2006
- Rashid Bahar
- Luc Thévenoz
Conflicts of Interest & the Duty of Loyalty
(co-organiser), University of Geneva, 3 March 2006
- Rashid Bahar
Créances d'actionnaires, Couverture du capital et assainissement des sociétés
Chambre des notaires, Geneva, 10 May 2005
- Rashid Bahar
Rémunération des dirigeants: la transparence suffit-elle à résoudre les conflits d'intérêts?
Rencontre entre les Facultés de droit de l'Université catholique de Louvain et de l'Université de Geneva, Geneva, 11-12 March 2005
- Rashid Bahar
Publicité et spécialité: les inutiles piliers du droit des sûretés
Réunion scientifique du Centre de droit bancaire et financier, Geneva, 19 January 2005
- Rashid Bahar
Treatment of Privileged and Secured Stakeholders?
Symposium Financing and Refinancing Companies in the Prospective of Insolvency – International Legal Debate (panelist), Geneva, 17-18 September 2004
- Rashid Bahar
Whose flesh do we pledge?
Visiting Researcher Colloquium, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (USA), 7 April 2004
- Rashid Bahar
La démocratie comme principe directeur du droit des sociétés anonymes: mythes et réalités
3ème cycle romand de droit, Bern, 27 - 29 November 2002
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