Roland Truffer, M.Jur.
Senior Counsel | Attorney at law
T. +41 58 510 92 90 | +41 79 570 75 71
roland.truffer@advestra.ch
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Roland Truffer chiefly advises in the fields of financial services and securities regulation. He also assists clients with capital market transactions, and on all matters of corporate law and governance.
Roland advises insurers, banks, securities firms and financial market infrastructures on all aspects of their regulatory duties. He supports companies listed on a Swiss stock exchange as to their compliance with securities laws and listing rules, and shareholders as to disclosure obligations. He represents his clients in all types of licensing, admission, enforcement and sanction proceedings.
Roland’s capital market practice focuses on hybrid instruments (including those qualifying as regulatory capital of insurers and banks). He regularly assists with reorganizations of regulated banking and insurance groups.
Further areas of expertise include the special insolvency regimes applying to financial service providers (including recovery & resolution planning), regulatory obligations of parties to derivative transactions, the regulation of financial market infrastructures (FMIs), and corporate governance. Roland also has broad experience advising on general company and commercial law matters.
Roland Truffer regularly publishes in his fields of expertise. He is the author of leading commentaries, inter alia, on the supervisory duty to provide information to FINMA, on the admission of participants to trading venues, and on the general meeting of companies listed by shares (including the judicial challenge of shareholders’ resolutions).
Capital markets
- Advising Jacobs Holding on the placement of 550'000 Barry Callebaut shares by way of an accelerated bookbuilding
- Advising Swiss Re on the update of its USD 10 billion debt issuance programme, and on the offering of EUR 800 million Guaranteed Subordinated Notes and SGD 350 million Guaranteed Subordinated Notes
- Advising Cembra Money Bank on the financing of the acquisition of cashgate (including, inter alia, Additional Tier 1 bonds and convertible bonds with net share settlement)
- Advising Swiss Re on the offering of USD 500 million Senior Exchangeable Notes with Issuer Stock Settlement
- Advising Vontobel on the placement of CHF 450 million Additional Tier 1 bonds
- Partner at Advestra (from 2021)
- Partner (2005-2020), associate (from 1998) and trainee (1996-97) at Bär & Karrer
- University of Oxford (Trinity College): M.Jur. (2001)
- Bar admission (1998)
- University of Zurich: lic. Iur. (1995)
- Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
- RdZ-Länderreport Schweiz: Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Aufsichts-, Zivil- und Wettbewerbsrecht für Zahlungsdienste, RdZ - Recht der Zahlungsdienste 1/2020 (with Mathuri Suppiah)
- Commentary on art. 53-59 FMIA (central counterparties), in: Rolf Watter/Rashid Bahar (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzmarktaufsichtsgesetz und Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz, 3rd ed., Basel 2019 with Rashid Bahar)
- Commentary on art. 88-92 FMIA (insolvency law provisions), in: Rolf Watter/Rashid Bahar (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzmarktaufsichtsgesetz und Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz, 3rd ed., Basel 2019
- Commentary on art. 34 FMIA (admission of participants to trading venues) and art. 29 FINMASA (duty to provide information and to notify), in: Rolf Watter/Rashid Bahar (eds.), Basler Kommentar zum Finanzmarktaufsichtsgesetz und Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz, 3rd ed., Basel 2019
- Commentary on art. 804-808c CO (quota holders' meeting of LLC), in: Heinrich Honsell/Nedim Peter Vogt/Rolf Watter (eds.), Basler Kommentar, Obligationenrecht II, 5th ed., Basel 2016 (with Dieter Dubs)
- Commentary on art. 698-706b CO (general meeting of company limited by shares; actions for rescission and for declaration of nullity), in: Heinrich Honsell/Nedim Peter Vogt/Rolf Watter (eds.), Basler Kommentar, Obligationenrecht II, 5th ed., Basel 2016 (co-author: Dieter Dubs)
- Commentary on art. 25-26 Merger Act (creditor protection in mergers), in: Rolf Watter/Nedim Peter Vogt/Rudolf Tschäni/Daniel Däniker (eds.), Basler Kommentar, Fusionsgesetz, 2nd ed., Basel 2015
- Regulation of Financial Market Infrastructures under the preliminary draft for a Financial Market Infrastructure Act, CapLaw 2/2014 (with Rashid Bahar)
- The General Legal Reserve: Some Questions of Company Law Revisited in Connection with the FTA's Guidance on the Capital Contribution Principle, CapLaw 1/2011
- The Interim Report of the Commission of Experts on the "Too big to fail" Problem: Reading the Tea Leaves, CapLaw 4/2010 (with Thomas Reutter)
- Option Transactions of Swiss Companies in Respect of Own Shares, CapLaw 3/2009 (with Daniel Raun)
- Die Sachverständigen zur Prüfung der Geschäftsführung (Art. 731a Abs. 3 OR), in: Nedim Peter Vogt/Eric Stupp/Dieter Dubs (eds.), Unternehmen – Transaktion – Recht, Liber Amicorum für Rolf Watter zum 50. Geburtstag, Zurich/St. Gallen 2008
- German
- English
- All Swiss courts
- Advestra advises Kinarus Therapeutics Holding AG and Curatis AG on the Combination of Their Businesses by Way of Reverse Merger
- Advestra advises UBS Switzerland AG and the other members of the banking syndicate on financing for the acquisition of the Kanalservice Group by funds advised by Ufenau
- Advestra advises Salt on its high yield bond offering
- Advestra advises Ares Management Corporation on its add-on investment in Peach Property Group AG by subscribing for CHF 50 million mandatory convertible bonds
- Advestra advises the sellers on the sale of 1plusX to TripleLift
- Advestra advises CBRE Investment Management on acquisition of real estate company
- Advestra advises Jacobs Holding on the placement of 550,000 shares in Barry Callebaut in an accelerated bookbuilding