Portrait

Robert Furter is a member of the Financial Services group as well as the Corporate/M&A group in Zurich. His areas of practice are banking and capital markets as well as corporate/M&A. He is an authorized issuer's representative at the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Robert Furter, born in 1953, graduated in 1977 from the University of Zurich and was admitted to the bar in 1979. In 1981, he earned a doctorate at the University of Zurich. During 1983/1984, Robert Furter worked as a foreign associate with Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, New York. He has been a partner with Pestalozzi in Zurich since 1988 and has served as managing partner since 2002. He is also the chairman of the board of directors of Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law Ltd. He is named in various publications as one of Switzerland’s leading financial services practitioners and contributes regularly to national and international publications in his areas of expertise. Robert Furter is a member of various international professional organizations, including the IBA (where he served as Secretary of Committee Q) and the ABA. He chaired Lex Mundi (The World‘s Leading Association of Independent Law Firms) and has been a member of its executive committee.

contact

Robert Furter
Partner
robert.furter(at)pestalozzilaw.com VCARD

Pestalozzi
Loewenstrasse 1, CH-8001 Zürich
Phone (assistant) +41 44 217 93 47

Expertise

Financial Services, Business Organisation & Compliance, Capital Markets, Corporate, Financial Products, Joint Ventures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Banking, Securities, Asset Finance, Banking & Finance

Languages

German, English, French, Dutch

Admission

Switzerland 1979

Publications

- Doing Business in Switzerland
- Kommentar zu Art. 965-989 OR

Memberships

IBA, ABA, ZAV/SAV