Team

Alexandra’s main areas of practice are banking and finance law. She advises banks, financial institutions, investment funds and FinTech companies in their regulatory duties.

She also assists clients in financing transactions, mainly in an international context.

Alexandra is further a certified information privacy professional under the GDPR (CIPP/E) and a trained Swiss Data Protection Officer (DPO). She supports clients on various data protection and information security matters.

Notable work

• Assisting Swiss and foreign financial institutions (including FinTech companies) in all sorts of regulatory matters
• Obtaining and updating the FINMA license for financial institutions
• Drafting contractual and internal documentation in relation to the provision of financial services
• Assisting in all sorts of financing transactions involving Swiss and foreign parties (lender or borrower side)
• Advising companies from various industries in the context of the Swiss revised data protection legislation

Background

• Master of Law, Universities of Geneva and Basel (2018)
• Certificate in Transnational Law, University of Geneva (2018)
• Trainee, then Associate in a renowned national law firm (2018-2022)
• Digital Law Summer School, University of Geneva (2021)
• CAS Digital Finance Law, University of Geneva (2022)
• Joined Chabrier (2022)
• Training for Swiss Data Protection Officers, University of Geneva (2023)
• 6 months secondment at a Swiss bank, Zurich (2024-2025)

Publications

• 2022 - AGEFI - MiCA
• 2022 - AGEFI - Finance durable et reporting
• 2024 - IBA Net - Switzerland: the rise of utility-scale energy storage technologies