Tarek Houdrouge
Global Guide 2024
Band 4 : Banking & Finance
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About
Provided by Tarek Houdrouge
Practice Areas
Banking and Finance;Corporate & Commercial; Mergers & Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Blockchain Technologies & FinTech; Financial Services; Insurance
Career
Universities of Lausanne Law degree (2004). Swiss bar (2006). Northwestern University, LL.M. (2010). Bar admission in New York (2011). Partner, Schellenberg Wittmer (since 2017) and Co-Head of the Banking & Finance Group.
Professional Memberships
Member of various professional organizations, such as the Geneva and Swiss Bar Associations, AIJA, CEDIDAC and AGDA.
Publications
The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides on Fintech: Switzerland Chapter; The Virtual Currency Regulation Review : Switzerland (4th ed.); Lexology GTDT Equity Derivatives –Switzerland; Chambers & Partners GLobal Practice Guide Blockchain 2021.
Personal
Languages: French, English, German
Chambers Review
Global
Tarek Houdrouge advises banks and financial institutions on financial restructurings. He also handles a broad spectrum of regulatory matters, including banking secrecy, data protection and compliance with new legislation.
Contributions
Latest contributions provided by Tarek Houdrouge
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Tarek Houdrouge is very knowledgeable in banking and financial regulation. He is always available to discuss sophisticated legal issues and, on top of everything, he is business-focused."
"He demonstrated very strong in-depth legal knowledge in each specific banking topic as well as having very good communication and strategy skills."
"Tarek Houdrouge has both the legal expertise and the business skills, which I feel is very rare. This makes working with him extremely efficient and pleasant."
"Tarek Houdrouge is very knowledgeable in banking and financial regulation. He is always available to discuss sophisticated legal issues and, on top of everything, he is business-focused."
"He demonstrated very strong in-depth legal knowledge in each specific banking topic as well as having very good communication and strategy skills."
"Tarek Houdrouge has both the legal expertise and the business skills, which I feel is very rare. This makes working with him extremely efficient and pleasant."