ROSSETTI, Raffaele (Partner – AC Service CH / Consultant Gamma Capital Market)

Raffaele has a wealth of experience in advising corporations and individuals on finance and banking law, particularly in connection with the licensing of banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges, securities dealers and collective investment schemes, as well as with the compliance related especially statutory and regulatory requirements (KYC; Cross-border issues). Other areas of his banking practice include bank liability, bankruptcy, and international mutual assistance in criminal as well as in prudential matters. He also advises corporations and individuals on risk management, money laundering and reporting and disclosure rules issues as well as on all aspects of the structure and operation of investment funds, including their marketing and distribution.
Raffaele received his law degree from the University of Zurich in 1993. He was admitted to the Ticino Bar (Lugano, Switzerland) in 1998. He specialized in finance and banking law, completing the Banking Supervision course of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2002 and the Executive Program of the Swiss Finance Institute (formerly Swiss Banking School) in 2004. After working as a lawyer in Lugano and New York and for the Federal Department of Justice and Police (Legal department) as well as the Federal Office of Police (International co-operation in criminal matters), in 2000 Raffaele Rossetti joined the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (today Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA). There, he initially worked simultaneously in the Legal and the Authorization departments. From 2005 he directed the Special Tasks unit of the Authorization department and in 2008 he was appointed ad interim Regional Manager of the Collective Investment Schemes Unit for the German-speaking part of Switzerland. Raffaele is a member of the Swiss Bar Association and the Ticino Bar Association, Chairman of COPTIS (the Swiss Association of Real Estate Securitization Professionals), hold the chair of the Clearing and Settlement of Financial and Securities Transaction Subcommittee of the International Bar Association Banking Law Committee and he has been member of the Specialist International Affairs Committee of the Swiss Funds & Asset Management Association (SFAMA).
He currently teaches at the Center of Banking Studies of the Ticino Banking Association.