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Leading Swiss experts on compliance and regulatory law supporting an international clientele Mercury Compliance AG, based in Zurich, is the preferred provider of legal, regulatory and compliance services in Switzerland for international clients entering the Swiss market. Consulting financial services firms, the team of lawyers and business experts meet their clients’ diverse requirements on an expert level. TEXT: JESSICA HOLZHAUSEN | PHOTOS: PRESS IMAGES
As everyone knows the financial sector is a complicated one – not only in business terms but especially when it comes to laws and regulations. Every company entering a foreign market encounters numerous new regulations and obstacles they often cannot properly handle on their own. Experts are needed: Mercury Compliance AG is a law firm specialised in regulatory law and compliance with a focus on the Swiss and Liechtenstein market. Founded in 2012, the Zurich-based firm offers services for the finance sector, commodity and real estate industry. ”Among our clients are small and
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medium-sized enterprises as well as large internationally operating banking institutions with a presence in Switzerland and well known on an international level,”says lawyer Samuel Ryhner, who has been working in finance for more than ten years now and became a partner at Mercury Compliance AG in 2013. Ryhner is currently one of three partners supported by a team of dedicated specialists – lawyers and other finance experts. Patrick K. Meyer, another partner, has 15 years’experience as a lawyer in the banking
sector with a main focus on regulatory law. Prior to joining Mercury, Meyer headed the regulatory and compliance practice at a bigfour audit firm in Zurich where he gained great experience consulting financial service providers in Switzerland and abroad. He also regularly issues specialist publications on legal and financial topics. Third in this trio is Nadine Blattner, who joined only recently in March 2015. Beforehand she has worked with a big-four audit company for many years in the field of regulatory and compliance services consulting companies operating in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. An occupation she took over after working for the Liechtenstein Financial Supervisory Authority. Due to her work she has become an expert on combating money laundering and on counterterrorism, she now mainly handles compliance issues that are EU wide.