Martin Liebi

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Partner, Suisse

Financial Services, Digital & Commodity

+41 76 341 65 43

Expertise

Martin has 25 years of experience as an external advisor, General Counsel, manager, and board member with leading firms in financial services (banking, capital markets, funds, derivatives), commodities, and digital assets. He has practical experience in Switzerland, the EU, and the USA.

He has led and served companies through all life cycles, from the smallest start-ups to the largest corporations, at their pinnacle of success and in their most challenging periods (restructurings).

Martin Advises

Martin’s practice focuses on:

  • Innovating, structuring, and implementing a wide range of financial instruments (e.g., securitisations, equities, bonds, and derivatives), digital assets, and commodities.
  • Authorising regulated entities in Switzerland and the EEA, with a successful track record in licensing MTFs, OTFs, stock exchanges, banks, investment firms, asset managers, and other intermediaries in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
  • Establishing the organisational structure of start-ups and large, internationally active corporate groups.
  • Listing various financial instruments on exchanges.
  • Mergers & Acquisitions, due diligences, and share and asset purchase agreements.
  • Drafting credit and other security agreements, as well as OTC derivative contracts.
  • Representing clients in court or before regulatory authorities in Switzerland and the EEA.
  • Serving on boards of directors and management boards in the financial industry.
  • Advising governments (Switzerland, Turkey, Estonia, Sri Lanka, etc.) and international organisations (EU Commission, EBRD, etc.) on the creation and implementation of financial services regulatory frameworks.

Experience Highlights

Martin’s “firsts” include:

  1. Creating first-in-the-world financial products listed on exchanges in Switzerland and the EU.
  2. Advising governments, and international institutions on policy creation and implementation.
  3. Creating first-in-the-world token structures.

Career History

  • 2022 Admitted to the bar in the Principality of Liechtenstein
  • 2022 IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland – Inspirational Leadership – certificate
  • 2021 IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland – the first 90 days – certificate
  • Since 2016 judge at the commercial court of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Since 2016 lecturer in the LL.M. program at the University of
  • Zurich in International Banking, Financial Markets, and Insurance
  • 2013 – 2015 Master in General Management, Harvard  University, USA
  • 2021 STEP Foundation Certificate in International Trust Management
  • 2011 International Certificate in Banking & Risk Regulation (GARP)
  • 2009 Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA)
  • 2007 Bar admission in the State of New York and the Federal Southern District of New York
  • 2007 Stanford Law School, USA, LL.M. «Corporate, Venture Capital and Business Law», GPA 3.65 “A-”
  • 2007 University of Zurich, Switzerland, Dr. iur., thesis topic “preferred stock”
  • 2004 Bar admission to the bar of the Canton of Zurich
  • 2001 University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Lic. iur.
  • 2001 University of Fribourg, Switzerland, special distinction in European Law
  • 1998 University of Leiden, the Netherlands, Diploma in European Law (LLC)

 

 

 

Martin is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).

Expertise

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Martin has 25 years of experience as an external advisor, General Counsel, manager, and board member with leading firms in financial services (banking, capital markets, funds, derivatives), commodities, and digital assets. He has practical experience in Switzerland, the EU, and the USA.

He has led and served companies through all life cycles, from the smallest start-ups to the largest corporations, at their pinnacle of success and in their most challenging periods (restructurings).

Martin Advises

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Martin’s practice focuses on:

  • Innovating, structuring, and implementing a wide range of financial instruments (e.g., securitisations, equities, bonds, and derivatives), digital assets, and commodities.
  • Authorising regulated entities in Switzerland and the EEA, with a successful track record in licensing MTFs, OTFs, stock exchanges, banks, investment firms, asset managers, and other intermediaries in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
  • Establishing the organisational structure of start-ups and large, internationally active corporate groups.
  • Listing various financial instruments on exchanges.
  • Mergers & Acquisitions, due diligences, and share and asset purchase agreements.
  • Drafting credit and other security agreements, as well as OTC derivative contracts.
  • Representing clients in court or before regulatory authorities in Switzerland and the EEA.
  • Serving on boards of directors and management boards in the financial industry.
  • Advising governments (Switzerland, Turkey, Estonia, Sri Lanka, etc.) and international organisations (EU Commission, EBRD, etc.) on the creation and implementation of financial services regulatory frameworks.

Experience Highlights

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Martin’s “firsts” include:

  1. Creating first-in-the-world financial products listed on exchanges in Switzerland and the EU.
  2. Advising governments, and international institutions on policy creation and implementation.
  3. Creating first-in-the-world token structures.

Career History

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  • 2022 Admitted to the bar in the Principality of Liechtenstein
  • 2022 IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland – Inspirational Leadership – certificate
  • 2021 IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland – the first 90 days – certificate
  • Since 2016 judge at the commercial court of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Since 2016 lecturer in the LL.M. program at the University of
  • Zurich in International Banking, Financial Markets, and Insurance
  • 2013 – 2015 Master in General Management, Harvard  University, USA
  • 2021 STEP Foundation Certificate in International Trust Management
  • 2011 International Certificate in Banking & Risk Regulation (GARP)
  • 2009 Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA)
  • 2007 Bar admission in the State of New York and the Federal Southern District of New York
  • 2007 Stanford Law School, USA, LL.M. «Corporate, Venture Capital and Business Law», GPA 3.65 “A-”
  • 2007 University of Zurich, Switzerland, Dr. iur., thesis topic “preferred stock”
  • 2004 Bar admission to the bar of the Canton of Zurich
  • 2001 University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Lic. iur.
  • 2001 University of Fribourg, Switzerland, special distinction in European Law
  • 1998 University of Leiden, the Netherlands, Diploma in European Law (LLC)

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Martin is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).

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