
Pierre-Olivier Etique
Partner Lawyer
Co-founder
Expertise
Banking and financial regulations
Collective investment schemes
Contracts & data protection
Financial litigation
Languages
French
English
German
Contact details
poetique@373-avocats.com
+41 22 310 53 72
+41 78 884 96 88
Rue du Conseil-Général 10
1205 Geneva
Switzerland
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Pierre-Olivier Etique is a co-founder of 373 Avocats & Associés SA. His practice focuses on banking and financial regulations and financing transactions. Pierre-Olivier advises Swiss and foreign banking institutions, portfolio managers and family offices, as well as financial advisors and securities firms. He also has recognised expertise in collective investment schemes, a field in which he assists numerous stakeholders, whether in the structuring of investment vehicles, asset management or distribution.
Pierre-Olivier assists banks and asset managers in their relations with supervisory authorities; he has further developed a recognized practice in defending banks and portfolio managers in financial litigation before civil courts.
Pierre-Olivier teaches on various continuous training programmes for the banking and financial industry. He is a financial mediator at the Mediation Office FINSOM.
Before co-founding 373 Avocats & Associés SA, Pierre-Olivier was a partner at FBT Avocats SA in Geneva.
He is recommended by Chambers as a leading lawyer in the banking and financial field (“quick to find solutions”, “modest and efficient”, Chambers 2020), as well as in collective investment schemes (“His legal knowledge is almost perfect and he has a pragmatic approach to legal advice”, Chambers 2017).
Education
2010
Admitted to the New York Bar
2009
LL.M., International Banking & Securities Transactions, Boston University, U.S.
2005
Brevet d’avocat [admitted to the Bar], Canton of Jura, Switzerland
2002
LL.M., Vergleichendes- und Gesellschaftsrecht, Universität Augsburg, Germany
2001
Master en droit [Master of Law], University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Publications
COVID-19 – Crédits facilités aux PME [Credit facilities for SMEs], Allnews, April 2020
Régime de “licence FinTech” [FinTech licensing regime], Allnews, February 2019
Le RGPD est-il applicable aux prestataires de services financiers [Does the GDPR apply to financial services providers?], Allnews, May 2018
MiFID II et gérants indépendants [MiFID II and independent managers], Allnews, March 2018
Suitability et profil de risque : quelles sont les obligations concrètes pour le gérant de fortune indépendant ? [Suitability and risk profile: what are the concrete obligations for independent asset managers?], Allnews, February 2016
Nouvelles règles dans le négoce des produits dérivés [New rules in derivatives trading], Swiss Banking and Financial Law Centre, November 2014
La Société en commandite de placements collectifs [Limited partnerships for collective investments], in: Loi sur les placements collectifs (LPCC): loi fédérale du 23 juin 2006 sur les placements collectifs de capitaux [Collective Investment Schemes Act: Federal Act of 23 June 2006 on Collective Investment Schemes] [FBT / Kellerhals (edit.)], Stämpfli, Bern 2012, page 276 et seqq. ETIQUE Pierre-Olivier / VILLA Marco
La banque dépositaire [The custodian bank], in: Loi sur les placements collectifs (LPCC): loi fédérale du 23 juin 2006 sur les placements collectifs de capitaux [FBT / Kellerhals (edit.)], Stämpfli, Berne 2012, page 438 et seqq., ETIQUE Pierre-Olivier / ZUFFEREY Philippe